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  1. Re:Jabra JX10 on Bluetooth Headset Roundup · · Score: 1

    Thank you! I've been wondering which BT headset to get because my Moto HS850 that I had before I got the Treo sucks for volume. Can't hear a thing. I'll try to look for the X10.

  2. Older Java Enterprise System Directory Server on Fedora Directory Server 1.0 Released! · · Score: 1

    This is pretty funny, since this Fedora DS looks like pre-5.2 Netscape/iPlanet/SunONE/Java Enterprise System (thank you Sun for all the naming) Directory Server... which was just announced to be released for free and open-sourced by Sun this week.

    Remember that Java Enterprise System is concurrently developed for Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, and generic Linux ( and sometimes gets RPMS for the latest stable RH Enterprise). DS 5.1 and before had horrible problems with replication and the Java console was dog slow... JES DS 5.2 adds point-and-drool replication of pretty complex topologies (cascading multi-master to consumer via hubs... think Cingular LDAP) and a much quicker Java GUI. And of course numerous bug-fixes and such. And all the command-line goodies that you can shake a stick at.

    I'd recommend JES if you're serious about the LDAP service.. however, this Fedora DS looks to be good for a departmental LDAP authentication service.

    Just my $.02 as someone who's seen and worked with both DS's and OpenLDAP (which in my opinion doesn't even play in the same field as ns-slapd)

  3. Re:There is no point unless... on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 1

    You ignorant, arrogant ass. What if I came and applied for a position with your company. Let's say you had something open for which I fit well... I'll just say, Storage and Backup administrator. My resume is four pages long, because I've been with a consulting company who sends me out to clients to configure SANs, storage arrays, backup solutions, and outside-the-box solutions crossing all the disciplines, from system to tape and in between.

    I'm sorry though, because my company paid for me to train for this and I ended up with more than 8 certs with several vendors, including the performance-based RHCE. I worked my ass off studying for and taking those exams and I learned a hell of a lot. But now you have to put my resume in the trash.

    Congratulations... oh, not you, to the next company who actually values and recognizes experience and doesn't balk at the pieces of paper that come with it.

  4. What to do with the .sits? on Marathon Trilogy Available for Free Download · · Score: 1

    Are these playable games in OSX, or are we forced to use Aleph One?

  5. My $.02: on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 1

    Guy down the next apt. building doesn't care if people use his WAP, he named his SSID "enjoy"

    Since my computer names were dilbert characters, my SSID is cubefarm :P

  6. Extremely Worried on Symantec to Buy Veritas · · Score: 1

    You're all talking about Backup and Recovery, but Data Protection is only about a quarter of what Veritas does. The other three main areas of their product and services line are High Availability (failover clusters, local and global), Data Management (Volume manager, Veritas File System, SANpoint) and Application metrics (Command Center).

    I work for a Veritas reseller and am a Veritas certified specialist in backup and HA for Solaris. I'm very worried that with this merger, focus will be taken off their Solaris/Linux products. Right now, for Sun machines, HA is either Sun Cluster or Veritas. Sun cluster is very immature for many of the features that VCS is known to be rock-solid on, such as global clusters with independent volume replication (via their own VVR or Hitachi True-Copy, StorEdge Availability Suite, etc.).

    For backup, they're in higher competition, with IBM's TSM and Legato nipping at their heels.

    But there is absolutely no comparison for volume management. You need clustered shared SAN volumes, you get VxVM. No questions. Sun's SVM is just not there yet. And now you can get VxVM for Linux as well, and have it be cross-platform (probably using UFS on both sides)

    With Symantec's shoddy support practices, this will hurt Veritas' current offerings of some of the best support and documentation that I've seen in the server software market. I hope for all the customers with production HA and data environments using Veritas' products that Symantec has the sense to stay out of way and let Veritas handle the Unix side of the house.

  7. Re:No CF card slot! on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1

    They didn't have to, you can get this already and it works with all ipods.

  8. Re:Solaris Vs Linux? on Solaris 10 to be Open Source · · Score: 1

    You all really should look at the Solaris Security Toolkit and custom Jumpstart. It will install the patches on top of whatever Solaris version and release, then it will harden it according to predefined, customizable finish scripts. What you get out of that build process is a server with only non-root-login SSH open. No one should even be thinking of using Solaris 8, the latest solaris without built-in SSH. Solaris 9 also has a much better default inetd.conf that keeps more services closed than open (unlike 2.6, 7 and 8).

  9. You're right on Recent Grads and Experience Beyond the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    You're not going to get in on the enterprise computing space with your B.S./C.S. alone. If you can, try to get hired by your university IT department. In anything, yes, even tech support... you can move up once you show your skills. Speaking of..

    Split your time into working, studying/taking classes and learning on your own. Spend time getting to know open source technologies that have enterprise level analogs so that you start to learn fundamentals. If you have multiple switches and PC's, make multiple networks and play with routing between them. Set up VPN or SSH tunnels. Snoop around the university surplus and see if you can get an old Cisco catalyst so you can monkey with IOS. That's if you want to go networking.

    I can't speak to programming, because although I did graduate with B.S./C.S. I knew within the first two years of that track that I didn't want to program for a living. I wanted to do systems admin and management. So I sacrificed grades for experience and worked and learned on my own. My first admin job was also a programming job, but that helped my resume so that I got a real admin job with a university department a few months later.

    It'll take a lot of discipline and maybe a lower GPA, but a CS student has most of the resources needed to learn and grow to be a marketable hire in real companies. Good Luck.

  10. Re:Market forces and the labor pool... on The Future of SysAdmins' Positions · · Score: 1

    Nope, sorry, I'm not poking around the IRS... what if they poke back?

  11. Re:I don't know a good rate... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    113ok01
    FS&C!

  12. Re:This is /.! on Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net · · Score: 1

    Sounds like what Apple does when it implements features in OS X that are the sole function of some third-party app (i.e. Alt-Tab switching, web browser, itunes killing soundjam, etc.). Meanwhile, small shops go out of business. Not saying that's bad, it's just progress.

  13. Second Impact? on End of the "Lone Asteroid" Theory? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The second impact may have been in the Indian Ocean.

    I had always thought the Second Impact was in Antarctica when Adam got pissed and melted the entire continent.

  14. Re:My answers on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 1

    As soon as the law makers get their opposable digit out of their anal orpheus...

    Hey! That's orifice, not Orpheus!! Don't confuse a Greek man-god with a body opening.

  15. Re:Mail.app Still Not Checking IMAP Folders on Mac OS X 10.3.2 Update available · · Score: 2, Informative

    The parent's problem is actually when you use Maildir folders. I believe that UW-IMAP impementations use mbox and are a little better at detecting changes.

  16. Re:Mail on Mac OS X 10.3.2 Update available · · Score: 1

    Don't hold me to this, but I could have sworn my very large list of IMAP folders actually updates with new mail when courier+maildrop filters a message into one of the folders *without* a "Synchronize" or "Offline/Online". Very cool stuff!

  17. Re:Killer feature: Detachable Monitor on ViewSonic AirPanel v150 Review at Ars Technica · · Score: 2, Informative

    Viewsonic sells a dock that does exactly this. I know because I have both the airpanel 150 and the dock right in front of me. I've got the dock's VGA connected to the linux server, and when I want to move to another room, I remove the airpanel and connect to a windows machine. What sucks is that even though the airpanel is just a wireless RDC client, you can't use it to connect to other true RDC servers, just the one that has the Smart Display service installed, and it only runs on XP SP1. I've only got one of those so I'm a little limited.

    All in all though, it's a really slick piece of hardware; good thing I didn't pay for it, my company is having me 'store' it for them. ;-)

  18. Re:Java desktop isn't necessarily Linux on Java Desktop System Review · · Score: 1

    You're more right than you think. The key features of the Java *Enterprise* System (which is the rebranding of Sun ONE and the commitment to release updates on a quarterly schedule) is to have support in the SunRay server to provide the JDS. Makes sense, since SunRay's are selling like flipping hot cakes.

  19. Re:Any disadvantages to a clean install? on Panther Released into the Wild · · Score: 1

    Also Booq Bags. I've got the 12" for my PB and it's great in my shoulder bag or on its own!

  20. Re:Mail.App improvements ... ? on Review of Mac OS X 10.3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please, please, please, someone answer this!!!!

    I've got one IMAP account, and 25 folders with Mailfilter+Courier IMAP+Maildrop on my Linux box at home... I usually don't see new subfolder mail unless I click "Go Offline" then click "Go Online". It only does that check when making the initial connection :-/

  21. Re:Kazaa and other file sharing services on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 1

    20% might look like this

    (yes, it's goatse, no the number isn't real :-)

  22. When you've been admining too long... on What Big Brother Teaches Us About Game Design · · Score: 1

    I had seen Big Brother the title and I thought "What does network monitoring have to do with game design?" /me goes back to work...

  23. Onimusha 3 on Capcom, SquareEnix Show Off New TGS Titles · · Score: 1

    *drool*

    They should have a playable demo of it up at TGS, or so I've read.

  24. Re:Easy. on Geek Eye for the Average Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fucktard, RTFA. That's what they *did*!

    They got DSL, Powerbook G4, Airport Extreme, 2 TiVo's, plasma tv, and yes a killer sound system (among many other things).

    They failed in their execution only with the remotes. That's the "it" in your quoted text.

  25. Re:Is the new 12" still hot? on PowerBook 15" and 12" Disassembly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember that the hottest part of the 12" is not where the processor is (top center, near the screen), but where the left palm rests and the underside of it. This is exactly where the HD is, and is usually the source of the heat. If they've started using cooler HD's, then I'd be asking if the thing ran cooler, not the proc.