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  1. Helps Samsung? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 0

    Actually, wouldn't this support Samsungs case? Both devices are apparently physically similar.

  2. False Choices. on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In our region of the US, there are roughly two choices of ISP. Cable based, and DSL based. Sure you can go wireless, and get lousy speed. Maybe you have more choices on the coastal cities, but for a large population, there are too few choices to make this model work.

  3. Agilent ~= Hewlett Packard on User Interface of Major Oscilliscope Brands? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All old HP scopes were made by the division that is now Agilent. Depending on how old your old HP scopes are, they may resemble newer Agilent scopes the closest. Features have changed a lot in 10, 20, and 30 years on these devices.

  4. Re:OpenOffice.org on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 1

    The 3.0 Beta version of OpenOffice for MacOS X uses the native Mac GUI without X.

  5. Re:Roof? on My Compost Bin And I · · Score: 1

    In dry climates (like colorado), a cover (roof) will help keep needed moisture in.

  6. What Next? on Copyright Office Rejects CARP Recommendations · · Score: 1

    It appears from the order that over the next 30 days, the Libraian of Congress has the job of determining the licensing charges that will be the final descision.
    Does anyone have an idea of what the counter proposal to the CARP recommendations will be?

  7. School is Cool on System Administrators - College or Career? · · Score: 1

    I took five years to get my degree, and spent 3 of those years working as a sysadmin for the university. Those years at the university gave me exposure to every piece of the IT infrastructure: Workstations, hubs/switches, routers, servers, dial-in modem banks, and the various upstream interconects (T1, etc) to the rest of the world. I wrote server daemons, clients to talk to them, and patches for open source software (before we called it OpenSource) we were using (Samba). In other words, I got to do just about every type of sysadmin task, right down to pulling cable (COAX!). Now that I'm out in the "Real World", working for a company with over a thousand "IT" employees, my job description is pretty narrow. I don't have responsibility for networks, ISP's, Mail servers, etc. BUT, since I've seen it before, and in many cases even configured it I can troubleshoot problems better than most of my peers. Peers who have good skills, but have a narrow range of skills as they've transfered into IT from other areas (manfuacturing techs, admins, etc). Because of the range of skills I got at school, I have much more autonomy in choosing the projects I get to work on since I have some experience to contribute in so many areas. That abillity to choose my work is what keeps my job fun. The breadth of knowledge you can get at a college or University will serve you well young Jedi.

  8. Sounds like bad management on "Industry Standard" Paycuts in IT? · · Score: 1

    Several Companies have instituted pay cuts over the last year. The one I work for has used a 10% cut for 3 months, and we're working on month 6 of a 5% pay cut. (All cuts shown as a cut from the semi-monthly paycheck) The not quite 4% cut by Devine seems mild in comparison. The big difference bewteen the company I work for and Devine is that thier management chose to pass on a considerable hardship upon thier employees. I can budget for a 5-10% monthly pay cut, but not a 50% monthly paycut!

  9. The importance of E-mail history on Text-Mining Your E-mail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that having a good history of well filtered incoming, and especially just about all of my Outgoing (Outbox) available for searching. My Outbox has been a lifesaver several times when someone claims that they didn't have that (electronic) discussion with me. It's great to quote "in a message sent... ...I asked you to...".