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  1. Stick with the Real Deal on Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu · · Score: 2

    I've set up Nexenta on a few of my servers and it is a nice system but I just don't see the point any more, SXCE or Solaris 10 do everything Nexenta can do plus more.

    Another thing that bothers me is that NC 1.0 hasn't been updated in forever, SXCE builds are released every two weeks.

  2. Re:Widening gap in first posts on Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Men would be stupid to take a job in elementary education, all it takes is one kid saying that you "touched them" to ruin your life.

  3. Re:You've never used a Sunfire x4100 x86_64 server on Sun Banks On Open Source For Its Survival · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why would you even need a raid controller? ZFS takes care of that for you.

  4. Re:OpenSolaris Advantages on Sun Banks On Open Source For Its Survival · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually for some things you want SXCE(Solaris Express), it's closer to Solaris 10 and includes more packages.

    I had to install SXCE for AVS (which rocks) and xvm support (Xen) is included as well.

  5. Re:No f**ing way. on Sun Banks On Open Source For Its Survival · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ZFS, dtrace, zones, Solaris Cluster, xen, java, and MySQL aren't "cool things?"

    Sun is one of the biggest open source companies around even if their OS isn't the most popular. I know if it wasn't for SXCE and OpenSolaris I wouldn't be using Sun products at all, it's great to have the free versions to learn on and you can just add a support contract later if you want it.

  6. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    A lot of my boxes have a /trash file system, after I'm absolutely sure I no longer need the files I rm them.

  7. Re:EOL cycle on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Normally you don't NEED to upgrade it. Set up the device and forget about it, unless there's some type of remote exploit you'll be fine.

  8. Re:C-SPAN, Hulu, Justin.tv on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 1

    Really? Have you even tried the latest builds? I'm running Real Player 10 on OpenSolaris and haven't had any issues with it, Real Alternative also works great on Windows.

  9. Re:Encryption is good for security, bad for perfor on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 1

    ZFS with RAIDZ2 also has almost no overhead, the extra features like on the fly compression are just gravy. I've also seen a lot of hardware RAIDs fail, only had one or two Linux MDs fail that I couldn't rebuild.

  10. C-SPAN, Hulu, Justin.tv on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 1

    C-SPAN has a live feed, URL is rtsp://rx-wes-sea74.rbn.com/farm/pull/tx-rbn-sea001:2459/farm/cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan1-g2.rm for real media. I'm sure Hulu and justin.tv will have streams running as well.

  11. Re:Help-desk, $12 an hour pay, etc. etc. on IT Workers Cushioned From US Economic Downturn · · Score: 1

    $12 an hour isn't a ton but still perfectly livable. Too many people are up to their eyeballs in debt with no plans to get out, THAT is the problem with our economy.

  12. Re:This Just In on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 1

    Hometown, IL, zip is 60456. The bonus is that it's a real place. If you wanna be devilish say you're from Hell, MI.

  13. Facebook Liability on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    Here's a question, has anybody tried suing Facebook/Myspace for loss of reputation or slander because of something that somebody else posted?

  14. Re:The public internet is not private or personal on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OMG, somebody drinking a beer! When I was 17 I did a lot of stupid/illegal stuff but I turned out to be a productive member of society.

  15. Re:The public internet is not private or personal on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    Let's turn that the other way around. If the school can't figure out the difference between your personal life and your professional(school) life, I don't want to go there.

  16. Re:why the on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It is not "like" half a meter, it is exactly half a meter.

  17. Re:I don't. on Pitfalls of Automated Bill Payment · · Score: 1

    There's this wonderful invention called a calendar.

  18. Re:Not a troll, on Best Western Loses Details On 8 Million Customers · · Score: 1

    I'm not a huge fan of MS but what difference does it make what OS the desktop uses, you can just as easily install a trojan on Linux or OS X. A properly locked down windows system is just as secure as anything else, as usual the weakest link is the user.

  19. Re:Insurance? on How Do I Prevent Lan Party Theft? · · Score: 1

    I'm 29.

  20. Re:The last one on How Important Is Protecting Streaming Media? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not difficult at all, fire up Audacity and set the recording source to "What U Hear", hit record.

  21. Re:Some woman giving a 401K presentation... on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    My favorite color is light urple.

  22. Re:Lie on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    My hometown is Hometown, IL. Not really, but it's easy to remember.

  23. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 1

    He should have encoded them in mono, 78s are mono any way.

  24. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 1

    Why we he post them in a format that nobody uses? And before you spout off about patents I have yet to see Fraunhaufer go after an end user for using an mp3 encoder.

    Seriously, nobody cares.

  25. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 1

    If you keep your records clean and use a good cartridge they do not hiss.