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  1. Re:Another way. on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 1

    Grandpa?

  2. Re:The real question is... on Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    Agreed, Symantec and Norton are useless. When I ran tech dept for a school I moved from symantec precisely because of all the viruses it missed. I did find Sophos to do a fair job, and the central command center made it easy to have the machines start at 0600, virus scan, etc at 0615 ready to go by 0700 when the teachers started filing in.

  3. Re:re Hard to decide ... on Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    on most systems it won't ask for a password, however that command won't make anything executable*. There is something to be said for making chmod ask for a password first though.

    * You meant touch empty-file && chmod +x empty-file

  4. Re:The pointlessness of software-by-lawsuit on Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I purchase a product because it will work with X. And it does not work with X, then I have been harmed. I am out the money paid for the product. If the vendor promised me the product would work with X, and knew the product would, in fact, fail horribly with X. That's usually called fraud. In any event, I am due a full refund of the purchase price, and potentially some recompense for the time lost and aggravation caused by the vendor being a dipshit. Generally speaking, if a product fails to perform as a vendor advertises, they will refund your money *and* offer you some form of apology, be it verbal, or in the form of monetary gain.(gift cards, 10% off next purchase and the like)

  5. Re:not a blip on Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, thanks to our governor, all Indiana counties have DST.

  6. Re:Umm... on Red Hat & AMD Demo Live VM Migration Across CPU Vendors · · Score: 1

    Isn't this like what transmeta did, except in software?

  7. Re:Finally! on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Not everybody can work for the system.

  8. Re:OOXML on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 1

    Then I submit you're doing something wrong. I'm working on a largish project where I work(web application for configuring routers). We've found that 90% of what we do works with firefox >2, ie >=6, opera, and konqueror. knock out ie6 and we're closer to 98%
    We're doing SOAP in javascript on the browser, almost pure CSS layout, no tables, but some container games.

  9. Re:Prior Art? on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    You hope.

  10. Re:I hope they're removed, on Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    KY is made by Johnson and Johnson, an American company, and sold in the US. The odds of you coming from somewhere I haven't heard of is pretty slim, quit being a pompous douche.

  11. Re:Trap on Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    But when those lawsuits were going on, those states had Democrat governors.

  12. Re:Inside the US only? on Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    Actually, Canada is the 51st state, Puerto Rico the 52nd. UK and .au can fight over 53 and 54

  13. Re:Not Surprising on Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    And that's different from now in what way?

  14. Re:Bad programmers methinks on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 1

    Now now, I let my wife have shoes. And sometimes I even take her out of the house.

  15. Re:And remember on RIAA Says "Wanna Fight? It'll Cost You!" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Did you not read the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement? It stipulated that all violence stop, and that paramilitary groups decommission their weapons among other things. So yeah, negotiating with terrorists is wrong. negotiating with ex-terrorist that discover a more peaceful means to their end is much more productive.

  16. Re:Probably Related, EU Software Patent Treaty. on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement · · Score: 1

    Actually you blamed gwb and *his* parties. no mention of the fact that any group in a position of power tends to ass rape it's subjects.

  17. Re:Thermaldynamics? on Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    But what is the antidote for methanol...

    As per wikipedia, it's ethanol. Yay!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol

  18. Re:Manufacturing Energy Costs? on Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    ... we refine your understanding of how it works. Well, somebody's full of himself.
  19. Re:Isn't price the key? on Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Rather then plant trees for shade, use solar cells along the road.
    I can see it now, the streets are lined with solar trees....

  20. Maia on Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't bother with most commercial systems, and greylisting is only part of the solution. What I have done multiple places (and always been happy with) is to have an offsite mail filter / mail backup such as no-ip.com(I happen to use them, anybody with similar service is fine should be no more than around $50/year). They do some basic filtering. then send the mail on to you. At that point I use maia mailguard ( http://www.maiamailguard.com/maia/wiki ), it's essentially a frontend to spamassassin(which is what most commercial appliances use) that gives each user the ability to set their own spam threshold as well as how often they get notifications of spam. It provides per user statisitics as well.

    For example, at work I have my spam threshold set to 2, while the suppport mailbox is 10. so I get very little spam, but the occasional email is blocked, while support email always goes through, but we get a bit of spam.

  21. Re:OOXML has failed, but it isn't over. on If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over · · Score: 1

    That's more a French outlook.

  22. Re:I smell something... on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 1

    You've got an obedient wife?

  23. Re:Playing Idiot's Advocate on Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection · · Score: 1

    1. Sucks to be them. At one time businesses used to think it was bad to tie themselves to one specific vendor.
    2. Novell's Groupwise. Evolution will supposedly act as a full exchange client too, but since I've never run into an exchange server. I don't know. Though if their users are like mine, sendmail + imapd covers 99.9% of the usage.

  24. Re:OMG ! SWITCH TO LINUX! on Transitioning From Small Shop IT To Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Come over to Indiana, we're moving to linux on the desktop in schools all over the place

  25. Re:That's retarded! on 20 Tech Ideas VCs Want to Fund · · Score: 1

    That's why I have a wife, no need for porn *or* a third hand as she fills both roles.