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  1. The best solution on Mid-Size Business Tape Library Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    This is pretty much the only real sofware: Symantec (formerly Veritas) NetBackup Enterprise Server 6 Hardware: Recommend a StorageTek L80 with whatever drives you see fit. And of course a server to match.. recommend Sun Solaris. If you want, I'll set it up for ya :)

  2. Content on What is Next-Gen? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's obvious. The next-gen is the ability to replicate not just visual reality but all senses.. including the sense that you ARE in a real world. I.E. Matrix.. everything reflects the real world down to if a body dies.. it goes back into the food chain.

    That is a real world simulator. Heck.. we can't even simulate real world weather.
    I guess we'll stick with trying to get a life!

  3. IT HAS TO BE SAID.... on What Kind Of Star Trek MMO Do You Want? · · Score: 1

    Green women.. green.. Orion.. women..

  4. Re:Noooo kidding. on Recruiting IT Students? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree with this one. The major problem is that business STOPPED hiring enough people to both get the job done AND give them time to learn on their own and/or cross-train other people. Add to that the perception that IT is getting simplified so you only need to hire one "Insert Windows/Cisco/UNIX/Linux/DB/Web Guru Here" for peanuts. This makes people who actually know what to do feel undervalued (perception) and impossible for anyone to break in (excessive expectations).

    It's literally an education thing for business - if they want the market of available employees to be better, there has to be flexibility in every environment for people to learn. This not only includes NOT burning their employees out but also giving them the ability to promote a learning environment.

    HR - Fight back when someone says I want "All This" and ask the hard questions - What do you really need this person to do? Without this person, what business impact is there? Shouldn't we pay this person decent money if they can help prevent loss and risk?

  5. Fact vs Fun on Ask The Mythbusters · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I watch your show, it's obvious that there is a lot of fun going on. Who wouldn't like blowing up, breaking down, stinking up, falling down, and all-around destroying everything?

    For those of us not of TV-land.. how long does it take for you guys to produce an average episode.. how much of it is fun vs time spent working on getting it right?

    Would you consider a contest to have a guest helper? (Not that I am plugging this potential guest helper at all.. no!).

  6. Re:It depends on what you want to do. on Clustering vs. Fault-Tolerant Servers · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. Active-Active in a MS Cluster... the only unsupported configuration. Active-passive (or for that matter Active (as many) plus one passive is always the configuration of choice. At any rate.. that's MS for ya!

  7. Re:Obviously - RTFM!!! on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exchange 2003 - any edition. You can scavange the restored database and bind it to any account that doesn't have any exchange.. I.E. a new temporary account... RTFM!!!!!

  8. It's about balance. on In SIlicon Valley: Profits up. Employment Down. · · Score: 1

    What is prescient about this whole discussion should not be "Who got what" but rather.. "Who HAS what". Yes, the companies are making record profits. Yes, economies are consuming at record rates. What I challenge is for someone to figure out the mean spending capability of an individual over time. I dare say that now, people's debt to spending is totally out of whack. You may only consume so much before the process falls in on itself - taxation cannot support the programs; businesses cannot sell their product (See cars selling for Employee cost now); and protectionist measures start to creep in for affected economic home turfs.

    We're in for a depression of large proportions. Like a house of cards it will come down. We must seek balance.. and that starts at home. Save your money - invest it wisely or keep it.. cash is king when it comes to the crash. Imagine buying a $200,000 for pennies on the dollar when the home market goes south.

  9. Direct effect on ALL software... on Are Video Game Patents Next? · · Score: 1

    That's a good example... imagine how this would apply to say.. the medical industry.. no more robotic remote control or stuff because it would cost too much.. or your health bill goes up $5000 for the line item: Patent Fee on Software to save your life.

  10. Re:Show us more on Star Trek XI In Two To Three Years. · · Score: 1

    Metroids should be Metrons....

    and you call yourself a geek!

  11. Laaaasers... muwahahahaha... on Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have T-rexes with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now, evidently, my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can't be done. Can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here!

  12. Wait a minute... MOOG (mind out of gutter). on Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD · · Score: 1
    "I for one can't wait for this crap to get settled out so we can just enjoy having huge discs."

    I thought this was offered in Viagra spam already... wait...

  13. Re:The real question to me is.... on Katsuhiro Otomo's Steamboy in Theaters · · Score: 1

    You forgot Battle Through Proxy - Eg. No one ever fights, but their object/creation/pet creature fights for them while they spew protracted dialog.

  14. Re:James Bond on Japan Considering Moon Base, Shuttle Projects · · Score: 1

    Cool.. thanks for the info. One thing of note for James Bond fans.. they are doing Casino Royale the way it should have been done as the next movie. Should be interesting.

  15. James Bond on Japan Considering Moon Base, Shuttle Projects · · Score: 1

    I wish I knew which James Bond movie would be appropriate right now... anyone?

  16. It has to be said... on Surgeons Use Gaming to Improve Skills · · Score: 1


    I for one.. do not want to be the one who gets the surgeon who says "Game Over" when there's no more to be done...

    lol.

  17. Re:I'm curious on FL Court Rules Against Spouse-Installed Spyware · · Score: 1

    My first post is just a gut reaction to the situation. It's far more complex. We've talked and develed into each other's personalities. The incident lead us to learn more about each other. I have no objection to most material that a normal healthy person observes. What I objected to was the fact that we both did not notice what was happening and talk. From what I know about myself, I have to talk to an objective person about my personality and my wife's (councilling) as I didn't get that touchy-feely good feeling when I found out the reality. At any rate.. it's just something we have to work out.

  18. Re:Sign of the times... on FL Court Rules Against Spouse-Installed Spyware · · Score: 1

    No no, not leaving her. And it's not porn.. it was "sex search".. looking for sex partners. Adultery... but not quite.

  19. Sign of the times... on FL Court Rules Against Spouse-Installed Spyware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate how sometimes this comes up to near something personal. It shows how screwed up people are. My wife was searching sex search sites recently and I only discovered after some recent oddities when trying to fix her computer. It definitely woke up the relationship. Trust is so hard to rebuild though.

    I spoke to a lawyer and in courts.. it ends up being next to useless. You may as well just leave the relationship... that being said.. it's not easy.

  20. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough that sounds like an Amiga! Lol.

  21. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I must say that in my old age.. (32 years and counting - over half of it in computers).. I am finding I prefer simpler.. I want to separate my gaming machine from my e-mail, communicationsm, and entertainment... I have an ipod... perhaps I want someone to make it simple.. and I'll pay.

    Yes.. I'll pay.. I'll pay until I am blue in the face for a great product, great service, and great support. Something missing from most offerings and businesses these days.

    WHOA.. stop there.. that's innovation.. getting something you would like for a reasonable cost. You should be milked for all your money instead of getting what you want.

  22. Re:You are a high school student? on What Interests High-School Students? · · Score: 1

    Well, he can write but appears to be beyond grammar. I guess it is tough. I mean, I don't write in formal sentences much anymore. North American society is so consumerism-oriented that all people want to do is get the communications over with in as short a time as possible.

  23. Re:Only in Japan on Toyota Demos 'Partner Robots' · · Score: 2, Informative

    To answer your question about accessibility products:
    "When and where can I purchase an IBOT(TM) Mobility System?
    Although the IBOT(TM) was invented and developed at DEKA, Independence Technology, a division of Johnson & Johnson, will be marketing and selling the IBOT(TM). Please consult their website, www.indetech.com for questions regarding price and availability"

  24. Re:Changes on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    Yes.. I've found it similar.. HR doesn't know what to ask for... so.. they do some research.. ask for God-like abilities and then you go to the interview... oh.. we need someone to script this web page to link to our database servers and we're willing to pay $20,000.

    As you look dumbfounded and say.. you asked for a Windows/Unix/Linux/Cisco/DB/Web monkey to do all these tasks.

    Bloody waste of everyone's time.

  25. Re:What if I find commericials objectionable? on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's simple.. stop buying TV every month.. stop buying *IAA music and movies. Guess what.. without money.. they will not be a factor any more.

    Start supporting public TV and independant artists via their websites.

    One must fight the battle the way which hurts the enemy the most.. in the pocket book!