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  1. Re:This isn't the first time on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    yeah, because terrorists like to wander around with their explosive in plain sight with suspicious looking wires dangling from their heads. rather than, say, stick them down their underpants or hide them in their shoes.

  2. Re:How stupid they think hackers are? on Android Jelly Bean Much Harder To Hack · · Score: 1

    are you sure it wasn't emulated 32-bit addressing? 64-bit Alpha Windows 2000 was never widely released. it was dropped in favor of the itanium version.

  3. I want my money back on Microsoft Kills Windows Gadgets Via Security Update · · Score: -1, Troll

    seriously. anyone up for a class-action suit?

  4. ironic on Microsoft Kills Windows Gadgets Via Security Update · · Score: 0

    Does anyone else find it ironic that Metro is little more than Gadgets running in a full-screen Start Menu.

  5. Re:Just a label. on Trying to Untangle Anarchist Attacks On Scientists · · Score: 1

    An anarchistic society would still have rules

    that doesn't sound like anarchy at all...

    but they would be decided by the community

    sounds exactly like a democracy to me.

    Please don't comment on things you know nothing about.

    i am kettle, what color am i?

  6. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    you do understand that he's the representative for his constituents, and nobody else, right?

    if his constituents like him, if they vote for him, no less, and they do it incessantly, then I can't think of any better gauge of a politician's success.

    what his constituents believe, or what your opinion of them is irrelevant.

    I think the same goes for my representative, Pelosi.

  7. sure whatever on Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    sure, you can have your broadband "rights", how about 'we the people' permanently revoke the right to broadcast microwave radiation through our airwaves?

  8. Re:GPLv3 violation on GRUB 2.00 Bootloader Officially Released · · Score: 1

    so a rootkit dropper on a secure uefi machine would just have to find & replace the post-efilinux part? why not just turn secure boot off?

  9. Re:Interesting on Google Vs. Microsoft: a Tale of Two Interviews · · Score: 1

    Which only goes to show that Google cares about the tech stuff, and MS just cares to make money.

    or MS cares about its partners, which is presumably the job of an Associate Consultant.
    Google doesn't care about it's customers. it doesn't have any, it just has users. it doesn't have Associate Consultants, just forum moderators, who probably don't work for Google anyway.

  10. Re:License and registration please? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    not so. it's entirely possible for a non-resident alien to get a SSN and thus a driver's license.

  11. Re:End the H-1B program and FORCE US companies to. on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    just watch out for outsourcing and spiraling inflation. let me know how it works out for you...

  12. Re:WUXGA finally (again) ! on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 1

    sorry to hear that. i had the same thing happen to me a while back. i took it apart and cleaned out the heatsync and it was as good as new...

    i have replaced the motherboard since then, though. i'd love to get a new machine, but I can't bare to lose the WUXGA :(

  13. WUXGA finally (again) ! on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    finally the 16:9 fad is over. maybe soon i'll be able to replace my 15" WUXGA D830...

  14. Re:Synology/QNAP + Database Mirroring FTW on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    Because of the quorum disk requirement

    i'm confused. AFAIK there's no quorum disk requirement in mirroring, the quorum disk is a clustering thing.

    in mirroring the quorum is just the state the mirror is in when at least two of the three instances are connected to each other via the network. the witness can be a SQL Express instance running on a small box - the load is tiny.

  15. Re:MICROSOFT SQL Server on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 2

    not that generic.

    i did a google search for 'SQL Server' and found 1 link on the first 6 pages that didn't use 'SQL Server' to refer to the Microsoft product. and that 1 link was mysql.com which didn't mention 'SQL Server' on the page at all (only 'MySql Server').

    the only other major DBMS to have 'SQL Server' in its name was Sybase SQL Server the ancestor of Microsoft's product.

  16. Re:SQL Server experience on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    there's no need to upgrade. you already have the SQL license (as long as it's at least v2005). you don't need replication, you don't need a cluster, you don't need shared storage. you just need two boxes, one license, mirroring setup, a backup strategy and a connection string tweak. everything else you can sell...

  17. Re:Synology/QNAP + Database Mirroring FTW on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    I believe you don't need Active Directory to do synchronous mirroring with failover. you can do it with certificates. I'm not sure why you need the shared storage for mirroring, though. the whole point of mirroring (as opposed to clustering) is to remove the need for shared storage.

  18. Re:SQL Server experience on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    10 minutes? manual intervention? you're doing it wrong.

    it takes about 5 seconds for our mirror to fail over and it requires NO manual intervention. i can pull the plug (literally) and after a short pause the application keeps running as if nothing had happened. the only change required to the application was specifying the failover partner in the connection string.

  19. Re:Advice. on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    i'm guessing he wants failover so he doesn't have to be rebuilding machines and restoring backups just to get his POS systems up and running 10 minutes before the lunchtime rush.

  20. Re:SQL 2012 on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    don't pay extra for asynchronous mirroring. it's only useful for distant DR scenarios where c is a factor. if you're trying to do cheap fail-over, use synhcronous mirroring on standard edition with a decent network connection (cross-over 1GB works great). it's cheaper and safer.

  21. Re:If it a'int broke... on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    pay per month access to redundant systems

    pay through the teeth for redundant fast internet connections and a router that can intelligently detect outage and fail over.

  22. Re:What's your actual problem? on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 4, Informative

    if you have enterprise edition, your .NET app can automatically fail-over to the mirror server.

    Actually, the Standard Edition will do this you just need to set up the connection strings to point to both servers.

    The Enterprise Edition will do asynchronous mirroring, but it's not worth paying extra for.

  23. really on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 2

    Have you really ever had problems with SQL Server crashing before? What version? What kinds of workloads? Did you tell Microsoft?

    Don't bother with clustering, use Mirroring or AlwaysOn Groups instead.

  24. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    but Iran wasn't buying the iPad, it was an American Citizen for christ's sake. since when does that have anything to do with export?

  25. Re:Eclipse on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    does the standalone linux archive contain windows executables?