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  1. Legislators on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    You can always reach out to your legislators office. Give them a list of the executive branch agencies that aren't responding to your requests. (Especially since congress isn't happy with the FCC right now). There is nothing they love more than to have a reason to squeeze executive agencies and the agencies generally respond to questions from congressional offices. Nobody wants to be called up to the hill for hearings.

  2. Re:This is slashdot? on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Having the same issue in IE7 - yes. I know. It is the only browser my employer will allow because it is "secure". Hey, we only moved from IE6 last March/April after sites started banning it.

    * the issue - can't see the stories (now on the far far right) because everything is on top of them.

    Why no link to the old format?

  3. Documentation System on Best Practices For Process Documentation? · · Score: 1

    Where I work we have thousands of pages of dead trees that get used maybe .5% of the time. Due to business constraints REQUIRING the use of IIS and Sharepoint we ended up going with OpenWiki and use Sharepoint for a document depository putting the links into the wiki. It seems to be working very well as people really like the search features. Plus, with active directory and the IIS configuration we can track who is making what changes in case there are any problems there (there haven't been to date). I would argue a wiki is definitely the way to go.

  4. LSI, Promise, 3Ware on SATA vs ATA? · · Score: 1

    3ware are great and $$$$$.
    LSI are great and not too expensive. They offer hardware raid support (not like promise, highpoint, etc.) for a good price and excellent linux support. They same driver and software that is used in their SCSI line of MEGARAID controllers is used in their series of SATA controllers. This is my recommendation.
    The promise controller has HORRIBLE linux support. Having emailed with promise many times about the SX6000 I can tell you to avoid it. If it is too late, you need to run it as an I2O device and use 2.4.19-ac4 (that is 2.4.19 with the alan Cox 4 patch).

    Go with the LSI for performance, reliability, and price.

  5. I recommend Glasses on Xeon vs. Opteron Performance Benchmarks · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whomever is citing Anandtech as claiming the dual Xeons almost always beat the dual-Opterons needs to read the article again. Both Architectures in a dual configuration tended to perfom about the same with Opteron and Xeon each winning some of the time. The Opteron scales better above dual configurations. However the Opteron is HALF the price of a Xeon! Cost/performance (or else we would all have 12th generation DECAlphas or Power5s by now) is easily handed to Opteron. Nice spin!

  6. Havasupai in the grand canyon on A Geek's Tour Of North America? · · Score: 1

    you have to get reservations (online now) from the tribe, but it is the best part of the grandcanyon including waterfalls to swim in and out of and dive through. It is an awesome place. Not too expensive. A decent hike (less than 10 miles into and out of the canyon) but killer switchbacks. If you need a place to stay in Phoenix (Mesa) let me know and if your a decent sort I can put you up.

  7. Copyright Law and US History on Fair Use is Not a Constitutional Right · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You need to to do better research. Fair Use and copyright law was brought over from England/Western Europe and was practiced in the United States before it existed and before the Constition. Copyright HAS NEVER existed with the purpose of protecting someones economic rights. The purpose, as reiterated by Supreme Court Justice Sandra D. O'Connor, is to protect and encourage the free flow and exchange of ideas. The only people to say otherwise, in an attempt to divorce the public from their history through ignorance, are RIAA, the MPAA, and their respective lawyers. Anyone doing any research at all can find the history of copyright on the web or in their local library. The idea that a publication which supposedly 'checks' or verifies their stories could print such boldface lies indicates that they need to hire new checkers or that they are owned by the corporate moguls perpetrating this attrocity in America. Perhaps the time is not far off when the Jeffersonian renewal of government by the people and for the people will be required.

  8. LTSP K-12 on Thin Clients in a Computer Lab Environment? · · Score: 1

    Try the Linux terminal server project or the K-12 LTSP. We have found them to be very effective and relatively simple. There is good support and it doesn't cost anything more than the hardware we already had.

    James

  9. Itanuim is only compared to 32bit archs? on Intel's Itanium Processor Explained · · Score: 1

    Why is it in this article that Itanium - a '64bit' processor is only compared to 32bit processors. There are some 64bit processors out there, some that have been around since before the first pentium. It would make more sense to compare 64bit processors and their abilities, rather than a 64bit proc to 32bit procs . . unless there is something not being said. More power to Alpha, a real (not 5yrs behind) 64bit proc! James