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  1. Re:They took jer job on South Park Turns to Xserve for Storage Upgrade · · Score: 1

    DLT7000s are quite old now. Most of my clients who have been using DLT are switching first to SDLTs to give them >160GB/Tape instead of the >35GB/tape. SDLTs can read old DLT tapes and write to SDLT much more quickly, so the transitition is much easier. A couple of TB of data isn't that much any more. This really isn't news, but it is an example of the industry trend by a well know group.

  2. Re:New features ? Why ? on Update to OpenOffice 2 Released · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to ever get a client to picke up OO, since it's not MS they are scared of change. We keep adding it to potential bid packages and keep hoping it'll help us out. MS's marketing has so many businesses by the balls that people are scared of anything but what they are selling.

  3. Re:Xen is not a competitor to VMWare on VMWare Inc. Releases Free Virtual Machine Runtime · · Score: 1

    MS has been demoing their product here at VMWorld and they are very much trying to take on ESX/GSX. Their ability to cluster is actually better than ESX, but I expect VMWare to fix that soon in a ESX 3.1. VS2005r2 is definatly a competitor for a plain GSX install, but VMWare's managment utilites and product line will keep GSX on top in that niche.

    VMWare also has NSA backing on security abilites, does MS?

  4. A posting from VMWorld on VMWare Inc. Releases Free Virtual Machine Runtime · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Player has a lot of positive buzz right now here, as soon as we all get back home they'll be thousands of player installs all over North America. This is the product I've been hoping for to help demo products for external customers, and allow internal clients to use VMs without having to pay extra money or allow them to change things.

    Xen who? It's not even on the radar here. Nothing against Xen, but it is years behind WS5 or ESX3.

    Microsoft has been here giving away Virtual Server 2005 with a free R2 update. I have 4 copies of it and I have no idea what to do with any of them. MS was presenting today how they plan to integrate Virtual Server directly into Longhorn. How long with VMWare count MS as a partner instead of as their primary threat?

    ESX 3.0 looks sweet, lots of new features. AMD, IBM, HP, and Sun have also been showing off their newest and greatest hardware for running ESX farms.

  5. Re:Well... on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Actually, there was a raid by John Paul Jones against his home town (where he was born before his family moved to the colonies). He hit there becuase he knew the harbor and area well, and I think it was a part of the UK that didn't really like the English anyway.

    IIRC nobody was hurt or killed, and all he really wanted to do was get some food/beer/water and thumb his nose at the Royal Navy.

    He was a uniformed officer acting on the behalf of a democratic Congress who bent over backwards to be a 'legitimate' government in all the ways the governments of the European nation-states acted. Most of his crew however were French or border-line pirates.

  6. Re:Uh... really old? on Voyager 1 Crosses The Termination Shock · · Score: 1

    That was Voyager 6. It was clearly stated in the movie.

  7. Re:I just finished reading "Heir to the Empire" on Might Episodes VII - IX Still Be Made? · · Score: 1

    Zahn's triology was excellent, and I look forward to re-reading it. I just bought the third book for my wife for our first anniversary (one of her presents was Ep III tickets). When I first heard that Lucas was making three more movies back when I was in Jr High, I was hoping it'd be Zahn's books.

  8. Re:It'd be silly for them to end the star wars sag on Might Episodes VII - IX Still Be Made? · · Score: 1

    The laying out of the relationships didn't hurt it for me. I've been doing one movie a day including III at the opening showing.

    I thought knowing the back story about Vader and Padme is actually helping improve leia ,Obi Wan, yoda, and Luke. Luke's training by Obi Wan and Yoda were an excellent contrast to the methods used by pre-Vader jedi and shows how Anikin really did bring order to the force by destroying the old Jedi of obsessed monks and replacing them with a new order of people who had feelings and used them to complement and enhance the force. Qui Jon (probably spelled that wrong) was really the first of this new order since they discussed how he had an independent streak in him. This translated down to the Skywalkers.

    While a lot of people on /. really bash PM, (and as a movie it wasn't the best) the story behind it was critical in setting the events going that led to Endor.

  9. Re:Does anyone else think... on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    BSD? Isn't that dead?

  10. Re:Economic losses in consequence on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 1

    And this is coming from a person in the country with the most CCTV monitoring in the world. Instead of complaining about us perhaps you should look at Big Brother watching you all the time.

    GWB isn't going to be kicked out, his term will expire. We have a written constitution. We have elections on fixed dates, not whenever the Queen consents to them. The democrats couldn't even beat a right-center president with a 50% approval rating, what makes you think they could win against the current crop of more popular moderate republicans starting to campaign.

    Also with privacy, at least my heath records aren't kept by a government agency.

    We arn't perfect over here, but I'm tired of eletist europeans telling us how much better they are.

  11. Follow the Money on Senator Calls on NASA to Service Hubble · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sen Mikulski is the senator from Maryland, where the Hubble is HQ'd. IIRC, it was HQ'd in her old district when she was in the House.

    I support the Hubble and think that we should fix it, but remember to follow the money as well. She has a lot of her voters that depend on Hubble for their paycheck.

  12. Re:Thin wrapper? on Microsoft Developers Respond To .NET Criticism · · Score: 1

    Yes, and when I was writing 4, 5, and 6 code I didn't notice too much difference. Granted I wasn't doing too much programming at the time, but it was the 6 to .NET I noiced. I have yet to see a difference in 2002 to 2003 as I've been programming. I guess I havn't checked out 2005.

  13. Re:Thin wrapper? on Microsoft Developers Respond To .NET Criticism · · Score: 1

    This is one of the reasons I'm writing my thesis project with .NET (VB for now since that's what I know best, but it is portable). .NET allows me to not have to worry that my API will change too much during development, and I can take advantages of patches.

    The logic can be implemented in other systems later. That is a sign of a good theory, there are many ways to solve a problem that don't rely on a single system.

  14. Re:Oscillations of the political pendulum on Governer Dean Becomes Chair of DNC · · Score: 1

    If you look this nation has already had for sure one, possilby 2 government 'collapes' in it's history. The first was as result of civil war. The Federal government was vastly different in 1870 than it was in 1860. The other that is harder to trace was the result of the 1932 election. The post depression/war federal government was very differnt than the 1920s. I think this helps shows the true genius of our founding fathers. The constitution is so strong as to prevent collapse, yet fexible enough to survive these massive convulsions of history. Remember, just becuase we still have more or less the same constiution as in the 1790s, does mean that we don't change how we interpret it.

  15. Re:Non sequiteur... on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Do the democrates, the ones whom bitched about winning the popular vote and loosing electorally for 4 years really want to loose the popular vote, then win in the EC? (not that this sore-looser attempt will change anything.)

    A minority president who would face an even more conservitive congress? Ya that'll be real good for the country. Look at the circluar fireing squad the dems are already involved in, a president kerry (not that it'll happen) is already politically dead in the water.

  16. Re:Kerry and Bush systems on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 0

    it's four more years... I really hope that you are not a US Citizen. A term is 4 years.

  17. Senate Not in Session on Senate Wants Database Dragnet · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't it be hard for them to pass something when they won't be in session again till after the election? http://www.senate.gov

    I think the editors have been hoaxed.

  18. this is my potential thesis topic on Distributed Data Storage on a LAN? · · Score: 1

    I've been looking into this as part of a project for one of my seminar classes this semester. Perhaps I can do my thesis on this as well, I'll have to see what happens.

    It all seems to depend on what it is needed for. For a "normal" RAID, this won't work. For a cheap backup on a WFGM (Wide Family/Group Network) this has a lot of potential.

  19. Re:Good to see misinformation is alive and well. on Globalism Post 9/11 · · Score: 1

    Since when have 17 year olds experianced anything in life? You probably havn't even graduated from high school, much less have actually studied history from a variety of locations and views. There is a reason people have to be 18 to vote and 35 to be president.

  20. Re:a few things ... on Enemy At The Gates · · Score: 1

    Yugoslavia did not have any impact on Barbarossa. The Nazi inital invasion date was posponed due to Russian roads being mud. The end of the Balken campaign and the start of Barabrossa happening the way they did was a quirk of history.