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  1. What is your bosses phone number? on Best Solution For HA and Network Load Balancing? · · Score: 1

    Linux over complicated...ha ha

    I will sell him a system fully capable of handling ten times that traffic with hot standby failover for 50 bucks a month with ds3 bandwidth available to it.

  2. 15 Minutes to establish a LLC on Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut · · Score: 1

    So in this day and age when it takes less than 15 minutes to establish a LLC and set yourself up as a private contractor, why would anyone work for one
    of these employment agencies? I guess if the job pimp says you are going to take a 10% cut then you are going to have to do it if you want to work
    on his street corner. Admit it, if you work for a contracting company you are nothing but a simple code whore.

  3. Re:my question... on Terry Childs Case Puts All Admins In Danger · · Score: 1

    Look, my boss comes to me and asks for the passwords he is going to get them right then and there.

  4. If someone told me that on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 1

    If I had a employer tell me that I would walk out the door that very second.

  5. Re:my question... on Terry Childs Case Puts All Admins In Danger · · Score: 1

    Exactly I would have just given them the passwords and said there you go have a nice life. Any call for additional information on
    architecture, setup etc will incur a $1000 hr charge 1 hr minimum for any call....a man has to eat you know.

  6. Re:what? on Uncle Sam's Travel Site Grounded By Breach · · Score: 3, Informative

    Let me enlighten you here mr security expert. Once you hit that submit button on your shopping cart at joe's online store, you have no idea what just happened with that information. I don't care if you
    put in your cc number a thousand times it does not in any way mean that the other end is not storing the information. In fact for all you know it sends a email to someone that processes the order, however
    mr hacker already owns that server and grabs everything running through the mail spool. Or has just modified the code to send himself a copy of your information as well.

  7. Re:An edge? on Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen · · Score: 1

    I don't like the apple software police either, however I am glad that they do because it ensures that crapware leaky
    apps do not run on the phone. Failure to police the software will result in users ultimately blaming the hardware.

    MS has a impossible task in front of them at this point.

  8. Re:what's up with goggle? on Biologists Find Stem-Cell-Like Functions In Ordinary Cells · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Same here with the us version everything is marked as malware, I also notice due to the hits it is slowing to a crawl.

  9. Economy Recovery on Microsoft Says H-1B Workers Among Those Losing Jobs · · Score: 1

    I really cannot see our economy recovering to any large extent at this point. American workers have just been completely hacked off at the
    knees by rampant out sourcing. The H1B program is largely a very small part of this, more frightening is the amount of jobs we have lost
    through out sourcing. This has finally bitten our nation and I just cannot see recovery happening until this problem is curbed. No jobs means
    no money for spending, no spending leads to more market retraction and the vicious cycle continues. Until our elected officials step into the
    market and level the playing we will remain on this path of eventual destruction. Giving everyone a check for $500 bucks ain't going to do it, that
    check will likely be spent and Walmart and ultimately off shore.

  10. Re:Work in the engineering field... on Microsoft Says H-1B Workers Among Those Losing Jobs · · Score: 1

    You are not going to find those engineering students in the states. The students know fully well that these jobs are being in-sourced through the H1B program and or being out-sourced. So why would a student pick a field of study that has a bleak job outlook? Same goes for the tech field, who in their right mind would attend school
    for a field in which there is no chance of payback in the future.

  11. Oversite on $6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with the idea itself, what I do have a problem with is what will actually happen to the cash. The major teleco's are going to snap it up and we know where the money will end up and it is not in infrastructure. Internet access in even most small towns is not a issue, you get out into the countryside and that is another story all together.

    I work with a small wireless isp and he is the only available option in the rural area's in which I live. I would like to see grants given to these last mile providers, he could service darn near everyone but it is just not possible from a business standpoint. Some areas are really sparsely populated and he would be investing in equipment with no possibility of payback in a reasonable time frame. In fact I would like to see the money disbursed as equipment vouchers only that have to be used in rural non serviced areas.

    But we all know this is not what is going to happen with our money.

  12. Re:Hey! on Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have no problem with your logic however here is a way to apply your logic while being fair to the system. The should
    be required to add 5000 american worker filled skilled positions before being eligible to hire or employ a new H1B worker.

  13. Re:SAP MDM ? BI ? on Visualizing Complex Data Sets? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bargain and SAP are not two words to be used together!

  14. Re:Not patched, not worried on 1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack · · Score: 1

    That is a example of a fairly good security policy, however if someone really wishes to own your network they will.

  15. Re:Solar panels and Snow? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 2, Informative

    All the ones I have seen installed around here are either on sun tracking stands or building side mounted at a fairly steep angle
    to keep the snow off of them.

  16. Color or BW on Microsoft Tag, Smartphone-Scannable Barcodes · · Score: 1

    I would lean heavily towards a BW solution, no change out of my 100's of label printers to implement such a solution.

  17. Re:'recalling' email - laugh! on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    What is really funny is that the dumb windows users press the recall button thinking it is actually going
    to work.....har har

  18. Re:Burning food is really stupid on First Flight of Jet Powered By Algae-Fuel · · Score: 1

    Obviously you have a problem reading, we are talking about algae and jatropha(toxic) oil here neither of which you really want to eat.

  19. The browser on InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    MS is already extinct it will just take father time a little bit to catch up with them.

    Most people could care less what OS they are running any longer as it has a working web browser. People are already
    primarily using their computers for web based application services. There will be of course some things that cannot
    be handled easily by the browsers but for the most part the average computer user today is nearly 100% focused on the web
    and web based applications.

  20. Re:Their problems are easily solved on InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    There are no good GUI tools.
    It can be done, but it's too difficult.

    Difficult for who? Why don't you just admit that you only know Windows and don't know jack about Linux.

    It will not matter for much longer anyhow, at this point people could just about care less what OS they
    are running since the browser is now the OS.

  21. Display Tweets on Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Display tweets from twitter as the come in.

  22. Re:There are other things first. on How To Create More Jobs · · Score: 1

    Probably looking for a .net programmer with 20 years of experience in C#, oh and for 12.50 hour.

  23. Re:Botnet solution on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    Yes yes of course but not everyone submits a httpd.conf file with a script both of us know that. The only point I was
    trying to bring up is some poor fool is going to take this solution as the perfect fix only to accidentally lock himself out
    of his own machine.

    The example I put up was only one reason apache may not start. The solution proposed requires that apache starts without
    a hitch. I just don't want someone to try to implement such a solution without applying a little thought to the process. If apache
    fails to start and you have no control of your ip lease or console access you will be screwed...

  24. Re:Botnet solution on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    You make changes to httpd.conf and don't restart apache? No I have not but I have seen an admin do it before.

    as long as your home machine with a stable address is in the file, you can still get in from there. Unless of course your isp dhcp lease expired in the mean time and you now have a different address.

  25. Re:Botnet solution on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    So say you have a remote server no console access.

    One day you are messing around with httpd.conf and fat finger a entry and mess up the config. Some months laterthe NOC hosting your system has to do some quick machine maintenance and powers down your machine. Later in the day they finish and power up your instance, but wait the httpd.conf file has a error and apache refuses to start on boot......now what, yes you are screwed you
    cannot access your account.