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  1. Re:Irony on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 1

    One of the nice things about Linux - It just works. You don't get random reboots every two weeks when Microsoft decides you must install this particular update, It doesn't get "crufty" the same way the Windows registry does, it doesn't suddenly fail to boot one morning (though in fairness, the fact that we never shut them down probably leads to a bias in that regard). It just works, day after day, year after year. If it worked yesterday and no hardware failed overnight, it will work today.

    You are so full of it. You like being that smug though, don't you? The reason you have issues with your Windows machines is because you set them up to fail with poor hardware, poor administration, or both. I have a 2003 Server machine as my fileserver and VM host that has been up for(and I had to check this) 512 days(hah, what a good number)

    Signed, a Linux user since Slack 3.1.

  2. What we do on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    At my company we use Region,Site Code,Serial/Asset #

    AMRNYC123456

  3. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Also, for completeness don't forget NT3.5 and 5.2(Server 2k3). Also, whatever one Server 2008 is.

  4. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I definitely agree and was not disputing the line between DOS-based Windows versions and NT. I just didn't catch that you typed "Windows NT 3.1". I just saw Windows 3.1 and my mind translated that to the 16 bit line.

    But, from what I can tell this will be NT 6.1 and not a 7.0 for Windows 7.

  5. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    FWIW, Windows 3.0 existed, as did 1 and 2.

  6. One Good Thing on YouTube Removed 30,000 Japanese Videos from Site · · Score: 1

    One good thing Youtube is doing when videos are removed is identifying the copyright holder who requested the removal. This way, we can voice our viewpoint of the removal straight to the copyright owner. Once the copyright owners realize how many eyes were viewing their material for the first time (thus gaining future eyes that may be inclined to purchase goods from their ads), maybe that will halp them rethink their old media model.

  7. Wallop Forums... on Microsoft Launches Social Network · · Score: 1

    powered by phpBB.

  8. Scripted Install on Vista Firewall to be Crippled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't most enterprise customers use scripted installs/images? Why would the default configuration matter at that point?

  9. Re:ripping HD from DVI on Making and Breaking HDCP Handshakes · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would need to recompress the data on the fly before writing to disk. 1.5gb/sec would be approx 187MB/sec (1500/8) which I do not believe any consumer disk array can achieve. Also, is 1.5gb the standard data rate for 1280x720 + 5.1 audio?

  10. Not the same goal on Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains · · Score: 1

    Verisign redirected you by DNS, this seems like more of a client side tool. I wouldn't have any problem with it if it was an optional Windows setting or uninstall tool.

  11. Re:Hopefully... on Outrunning China's Web Cops · · Score: 1

    So sad... so true...

  12. I'd rather have 2TB on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1

    In the form factor of two microdrives.

  13. The power of the network on Researcher Resigns Over New Cisco Router Flaw · · Score: 1

    will be shut down in 5 minutes.

  14. Re:Timing on Thousands and Thousands of Hours of PVR TV · · Score: 1

    Wow. Didn't think there was anyone on /. that didn't understand Gb=gigabit and GB=gigabyte. Considering this is a topic where the distinction is important and disregarding this would be/is confusing(until I found "300Gb disks", I was thinking bits. /rant_off

  15. Wow, it's a webserver too! on PC Keyboard Connected to PSP · · Score: 0

    Seems they've also gotten it to run a webserver!

  16. Re:First law of data security... on Another Stab at Laptop Security · · Score: 1

    Granted it may be able to "phone home" from a temporarily connected WAP, but what good is that going to do?

  17. Re:What the hell? on The Feasibility of Star Wars Tech · · Score: 1

    It's some geniously coded slide show.

    Click 'stop' at the top.

  18. Re:so what... on The Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow, those are very strong and sobering points. Maybe software and PCs/Networks are beginning to become mainstream. Just like mechanics in the early 1900s or the steel makers of the 1800s, where are they now? Well, the new ones at least(think 25 years establishment or less) aren't billionares, are they? Software and the tools that write software(think dumbed down software that writes the whole application for you with fairly efficient code) are the death of easy originality. Think about cars. As they become more and more mass produced, they quality goes down.

    Cars are a good example. For example I just bought a 2003 Mustang Cobra and am having problems where as others with more limited production, such as a 1995 for instance, were built with more precision(read:more attention), but cost less and have less problems?!?!.

    What I see here is the beginning of the destruction of capitolism/economics/life(as we know it). Think this way... If more and more people and corps come online with the tools to make an application that makes an instant internationally accessable website then all we will see is less and less of an acutal product and more of a battle of whose the best at lying and making the most apealing ads. We all hear about this or that company claiming to focus on the customer. I'm sorry to say, CUSTOMER SERVICE IS DEAD. It's all an ad campain. Like AT&T Wireless or Time Warner Cable. I deal with many vendors everyday with my work and the average rate of satisfaction from the service received is less than 10%. Both of the above companies' ranked the #1 and #2 spot on worst expiriences with getting customer service after the sale I have had.

    When was the last time you had service. What about at a chain owned business such as a fast food establishment? It's going downhill and I'm expecting the worst soon.