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  1. Re:IT departments, on the other hand... on How Red Hat Can Recapture Developer Interest · · Score: 2

    Really? As Linux System Administrator, I like Red Hat. I despise Ubuntu, for instability. The LTS versions of Ubuntu have been problematic in my experience.

    I do find CentOS to be easier to maintain, but usually get stuck trying to convince management to let us deploy.

  2. Re:The moment of truth on GOG Introduces DRM-Free Movie Store · · Score: 1

    http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08... It should read use Netflix in your Linux browser, because who uses Silverlight for anything but Netflix?
    It works. It just doesn't work officially.

  3. Re:Is this spam? on MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released · · Score: 1

    Are you new here? Your ID would indicate otherwise, but your attitude seems incongruous.

    I fully expect there to be postings about interesting Free Software products. (And something from the GNU project is definitely Free Software).

  4. Re:Okay .... on FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars · · Score: 1

    You do not need the skill to program. You just need the leverage to make someone who has the skills do it for you.

    A programmer might be willing to do it for some large sum of money or to protect his family. Once it is done once, it becomes much easier to do a second time.

  5. Re:yes but...yes in fact. on Wireless Contraception · · Score: 2

    If they were a privately held company and not incorporated, i would not have an issue with the ruling. If you are going to insulate yourself from the company, then your religious beliefs should not dictate what the company denies its employees.

  6. Re:A couple of coworkers just got back from Beijin on IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    How the hell is China having awful pollution the fault of IBM? By golly I know IBM is not perfect, but all the cases I have personally seen, customers dump a pile of crap into IBM's hands, then hamstring them while demanding they polish the turd.

  7. Re:prices on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I am fairly certain one will be able to buy an Amazon Fire Phone, unless one is really lucky at begging, one cannot buy a Oneplus One.

  8. Re:But... on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 0

    OK, then maybe we should go the other extreme. Lets take Kennesaw, GA- http://www.freerepublic.com/fo... or http://www.wnd.com/2007/04/411...

    Every head of household is required to own a gun. Their crime rates, including murder, are down across the board. Morton, IL that took the opposite route banned all Guns, and has had increased crime rates.

    Then there is Switzerland, with the majority of households owning a gun. They have a murder rate of .7 (.52 for murder by guns).

    So maybe the answer is to have everyone trained and own a gun. After all, everything is on the table.

    Or maybe we should look into curing our social ills. Removing guns from law abiding citizens does not remove them from criminals and case studies show that it emboldens criminals. I agree, we need to do something, taking away guns is not the answer.

  9. Re:I'd be satisfied with... on NYC Councilman (and Open Source Developer) Submits Bill Establishing Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    About the only way to get open standards is to use FOSS. There are also benefits that will spur the local economy as proven with the recent story on Munich. Plenty of FOSS projects are best of class. It is not just about up front costs or installation and configuration. What are the ongoing support costs? For a given number of servers, it usually means more Windows admins that Unix/Linux admins. Unix/Linux can do more on given hardware than Windows. When Microsoft transitioned Hotmail from BSD to Windows Server, they had to more than double the amount of servers to achieve the same performance.

    Plenty of Government uses FOSS- http://leeunderwood.org/linux/...
    There are even more undocumented cases, but I am not at liberty to divulge that information.

  10. Re:I wonder about man hour figures... on The Man Behind Munich's Migration of 15,000 PCs From Windows To Linux · · Score: 1

    Or go the Red Hat or SUSE solution. For RHEL, you buy an rhn subscription and use Satellite, or go free and use CentOS and Spacewalk. On SUSE use SUSE Manager, it will manage Red Hat as well. One could use Spacewalk to manage SUSE as well.

    Satellite is reported to cost $10000 but that is a flat fee, not a per client based license. So for Munich with 15000 clients, that is way cheaper than other options including Microsoft. SUSE says that SUSE manager is up to 50% cheaper than Satellite.

  11. Re:Cheaper beer on The Man Behind Munich's Migration of 15,000 PCs From Windows To Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, we should value our neighbor more than some remote individual in another country. Besides the ethical and moral considerations, there are practical ones as well. If your neighbor has a job, he will not have to steal from you to survive. there will be networks effects where the area improves as more people have moeny and spend it. look at urban renewal efforts where as people see improvements and have stable jobs they improve their properties and it encourages their neighbors to improve their properties. The reverse happens all too often as well.

  12. Re:Birdpocalypse on China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base · · Score: 1

    I am surprised they haven't used dogs. It worked well for airports in Florida: http://news.google.com/newspap...

  13. Re:Not the phone on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 2

    Actually, I think you are like most people. You're usage profile matches my own and most people i know.

  14. Re:Recruiting policy on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    No, Linux admins contribute less to TCO because Linux requires fewer Admins per hundred servers.

  15. Re:Recruiting policy on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    Use of Linux and Free software can be done and eliminate all use of Microsoft. Look at what Largo, FL has done: http://www.largo.com/departmen...

  16. Re:Give up the keys on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 1

    It is not about preventing his access, just that you can track it. Sure if he is super competent, he can hide any nefarious doings, but if he is that good, he doesn't need to even work for the original questioner.

    Could I hide a one time action to hide something nefarious as a system admin? Probably. Could I do it everyday and not arouse suspicions? Not likely. I doubt I could both perform my job and leave evidence in the logs and hide nefarious doings long term.

    My manager holds regular one on one meetings. They build our relationship but also are way to keep tabs on what I am doing, what roadblocks I might encounter and are sounding board for any improvements I might come up with.

  17. Re:Give up the keys on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 2

    Trust but verify.

    Give full sudo or equivalent for the first month or two, but keep root/administrator separate and stored securely. Review the logs regularly. After a month or two, you should have enough trust to hand over the reigns, but spot check occasionally.

  18. Re:Lol... on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    I can agree with that for private individuals. You do not like someone you do not need to hire them. You lose that ability the moment you incorporate. You want protections of incorporation, then you also get regulated.

  19. Re:Hardware requirements on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 1

    But with the source code, you could pay someone to update to support new systems, legally. Sounds like a better plan than scouring EBAY for hardware that will run your EOL OS, or modifying some proprietary dll that could run afoul of DRM schemes.

  20. Re:Not available on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are several accounting solutions out there, just a quick search found:
    http://www.gnucash.org/
    http://turbocash.net/
    http://frontaccounting.com/wb3...
    http://www.sql-ledger.com/
    http://ledgersmb.org/

    Her is a list of replacements for AutoCAD:
    http://blog.cometdocs.com/10-g...

    Besides GIMP there is Krita and Cinepaint, and GIMPshop provides a Photoshop like interface. GIMP does have plugins if one needs CMYK. Inkscape does Vector Graphics. Scribus is more of a replacement for Illustrator.

    There were some lack of features years ago. The options have matured since then.

  21. Re:Anonymous? on Wil Wheaton Announces New TV Show · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points. The post above yours is much funnier though they say much the same thing.

  22. Re:FTP? on Canonical Shutting Down Ubuntu One File Services · · Score: 1

    I think, he meant you do not need to know what the public IP is.

  23. Re:Do electric cars actually produce CO2? on Mazda Says Its Upcoming Gas-Powered Cars Will Emit Less CO2 Than Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    I have a Volt. Regenerative braking means the brake pads are not worn as much. I have a gasoline engine (more realistically a electric generator though there is one usage scenario where it provide direct power to the wheels), that requires an oil change between 1-2 years. The noise difference of not having the engine running when on battery is amazing. My batteries are warrantied for 8 years. I am not real concerned about the batteries. Finally, go out and find an unsatisfied customer of the Volt. The Volt has one of the highest customer satisfaction ratings.

  24. Re:Is it all about the license? on GNU C Library Alternative Musl Libc Hits 1.0 Milestone · · Score: 1

    MIT allows one to take your code and do what they will, including wrapping it up in a proprietary license. GPL requires that if one takes code, makes changes and distributes, they need to make the sourceof thsoe changes available to those they distribute the compiled or source code to. An example of taking MIT licensed code is what Microsoft did with BSD networking code and kerberos. The changes Microsoft did to BSd to make it work in Windows are lost to the community, including any potential bug fixes and security improvements. MS took kerberos and made it incompatible with the Open Source offerings.

    The other issue is that if you mix GPL and MIT licensed code, the whole thing becomes GPL.

  25. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Though you do not call it an exception, you call it a license.