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  1. Only 14 Counties to go! on Arizona County Attorney To Ditch iPhones Over Apple Dispute With FBI (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Your off to a good start Arizona!

    Seriously who cares what 1 office, of 1 county, of 1 state does? They probably wanted to switch to Android to save money but the people in office resisted, and now they can set a standard via press conference.

  2. The Real Question on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 2

    Is it better than a wire coat hanger

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/c...

  3. CocoonTech is where you want to post this. on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    CocoonTech is the forum for this questions, if you have experience with X10, take a look at UPB.

    If you are going from scratch, every switch gets a cat5 cable. Wire in your security sensors. Wire in snakeable conduit everywhere else. Especially on your exterior walls. You will want a cable chase that goes from the attic to the basement.

    Plan ahead and wire everything you can, then use the z-wave to hit everything you forgot to.

  4. All Your Face Are Belong to Us. on State Photo-ID Databases Mined By Police · · Score: 1

    All Your Face Are Belong to Us.

    Sorry, It had to be said.

  5. Re:We did an office renovation on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    If you are building your new home, you owe it to yourself to lurk the cocoontech forums and check out their wiring guides (see links below). For you television locations you are going to want, at a minimum, 1 RG6 and 2 Cat6. Preferably 4 Cat6 Jacks. Hit monoprice.com for your cable and get Cat6 550Mhz cable. Because that is what you will want to use with HDMI video baluns. If you still have studs exposed you can put in conduit to add more later.

    Wherever you were going to put 1 jack put in two. You can always use the second one for phones, or a network printer, or an access point.

    As for your original question, if I was worried about accessing the back, I would use a two post rack and mount it sideways so the rail was to the front. With quality gear, you won't be back there that much. I did get a secondhand 42U rack but once I had it home, it was too big. I sold it and eventually just moved my equipment into an audio rack.

    Cocoontech Wiring Guides

    http://cocoontech.com/wiki/Wiring_Your_New_House_101

    http://cocoontech.com/wiki/Wiring_Your_New_House_102

  6. Aereo should sue the broadcaster on Major Networks Suing To Stop Free Streaming · · Score: 2

    Aereo should sue the broadcaster for spraying their antenna with copyrighted media.

  7. Re:DIY or call a pro? on Ask Slashdot: Home Testing For Solar Roof Coverage? · · Score: 1

    Hobbyboards sells 1-wire Solar Radiation Detector. If you are interested

    http://www.hobby-boards.com/store/products/Solar-Radiation-Detector.html

    No relationship with the seller, but if they sell it, so do others.

  8. Simple Solution on US, EU, Japan Complain To WTO Over China's Rare Earth Ban · · Score: 1

    China bans rare earth exports, US places a high tariff on Chinese imports except rare earth metals. As a very large importer of Chinese goods, this problem won't take very long to resolve.

  9. Re:Thanks a bunch on Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006 · · Score: 1

    "completely lied to them" Lied to them for 6 years! Is probably still lying.

  10. Don't Hate the Player, Hate the game on Techrights Recommends An Apple Boycott · · Score: 1

    Everyone is suing everyone else to get the cross licensing revenue. Once one company proves you can make money via lawsuit, It becomes the duty of all other companies to exploit this untapped revenue stream to increase shareholder value. A company is duty bound to use every advantage to the benefit of the shareholders. This includes lawsuits, PR campaigns, injunctions, and broken patent systems.

    Personally I find the whole lawsuit, Intellectual property business distasteful, but it is the shape of things to come. If we had all this during the industrial revolution, we would be screwed.

  11. Re:Please on Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    Thank you for saying this. When I read the headline, that is what I immediately thought.

  12. Free Enhanced Pat Downs For All ! on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 1

    Thats right, officer, feel the resistance.

  13. Re:Good for Microsoft! on MS Adds Security Suite To Update Service, Antivirus Rival Objects · · Score: 1

    I agree, The fact that this does not happen if the user has installed and maintained one of the AV Vendors programs should cancel the argument. As we conduct more business online, we need to protect the Internet from novice users.

    If the user doesn't want to buy a feature bloated, resource hogging, overpriced, protection suite that will quarantine essential windows files, then Microsoft should provide some basic protection.

    Less infections mean less zombies and less spam.

    Let the AV Vendors compete on performance.

  14. Did you look on the Hall Table? on Feds Discover 1,000 More Government Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Under that stack of unsolicited credit card offers, coupons, and bills that arrived yesterday? Last time I saw your data center, it was right there next to your car keys. No, I didn't move it.

  15. Blame IT on The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah right. They always blame IT.

  16. Re:Where have all the pagers gone? on Where Have All the Pagers Gone? · · Score: 1

    http://www.directpage.com/

    Still sells them.
    About $10 a month.

  17. Sweet! on Spore, Mass Effect DRM Phone Home For Single-Player Gaming · · Score: 1

    This should be way easier to hack than the CD check. And once the hack is complete you won't need the CD or the Internet.

  18. Re:Do we need more types? --Yes, We Do! on Welcome to the 'Plogging' World · · Score: 1

    We need at least one more. We need a slog. That way we can log al the time we waste on slashdot.

  19. Re:Really? on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    Say what you want about Bill, But the guy does have a master grasp of the obvious.

    If I had a dollar for every time I heard those complaints or variations on the theme, I would be as rich as he is.

  20. More like 93% Right on What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.? · · Score: 1

    Can't be more sure without Researching and Developing a more educated opinion.

  21. Jar Jar Must Die! on Living with Darth Vader · · Score: 1

    Now you can kill the single most annoying character in the Star Wars Universe.

  22. Spoken like a true user on Good POP3 Server for Huge Mailboxes? · · Score: 1

    You think admins care about how big the email is. not really, until it trashes the server when you try to send a 450 MB powerpoint slide show home so you can "work" on it. When the server bombs, and they will, I garantee you will be the first one to gripe when you can't read you joke of the day with your coffee, or check out the pr0n you frat buddy sent you.

  23. Waaaahhhhhh! on Academic Network Censorship? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stop Whining and go study!
    The school network exists to enhance your educational experience not for your personal enjoyment.

    Also check the Acceptable Use Agreement that you signed (in that big pile of forms they gave you during registration), unless swapping mp3s and trafficing pr0n is acceptable, I don't think you have a case. You could always contact the Chair, Senate Committee on Computing and Communications Policy, in care of the University Secretary, and tell them that not being able to steal music is bumming you out.

  24. Re:2 majors on What is the Value of a Second Major? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now is the perfect time to go for it. The economy sucks major. You are not likely to get a good job (decent wage, in your preferred field) in less than 3-4 months. Might as well press on.

  25. Linux-Mag + ArcTime = Cross Platform Creaminess on Feeding GPS Time to a Private NTP Server? · · Score: 1

    How about something cheaper than a GPS

    Check out this article.
    http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-12/guru_01 .html

    Here they tell you where to buy an Atomic Time PC Deskclock with serial interface. $99.00 plus s+h.

    http://www.arctime.com/

    The article provides an expect script to read the data from the clock. This is cool for UNIX servers. For Windows servers, use perl with the expect module to retrieve the time, then use the "Time" command to set the time.

    Cross platform creaminess at a fraction of the cost!

    You could also cheese out and use the windows software that comes with the clock, if you are a slacker.