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  1. Re:Cancel or allow what?! on Windows 7 To Dial Down UAC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you're trying to get permissions correct to eliminate these type of prompts in a corporate environment (or make an app work in a locked down pre-Vista environment) I can't recommend LUA Buglight highly enough. Basically it provides a way to record exactly what rights an application is requesting as you run it. I've used it mostly to get temperamental programs running as locked down users under Citrix but it should work fine to help reduce the amount of UAC messages under Vista.

  2. Re:Government could have fought back on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 1

    Permitting is normally controlled by the council or a committee thereof, only in the largest of cities is it performed by an unelected bureaucrat.

  3. Re:I'd vote ICANN on Government Begins Securing Root Zone File · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about the operators of each Root server signs their own copy of the root? That way if one entity implements policies that you don't agree with you simply remove them from your hints file. There's a reason there's multiple root servers and putting the signing authority in the hands of one entity inherently makes the system less diverse and fault tolerant.

  4. Re:Government could have fought back on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's justification for you: The soliciting party is engaged in a lawsuit against the city over a similar plan by the city, until the lawsuit is concluded the city is unsure of how they will move forward with their deployment and if the soliciting parties proposal will interfere with the cities plans. Once the lawsuit is concluded the city will finalize their plans and evaluate the soliciting parties request for permission to dig, the city will provide a detailed plan to the soliciting party no later than 90 days after the conclusion of the lawsuit.

  5. Re:Moral of the story? on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1

    Non-Part 15 devices....

  6. Re:Drizzle? on David Axmark Resigns From Sun · · Score: 1

    Most commercial offerings already support multiple DB's and doing so in your own apps should be trivial with a sane design, the SQL calls should all be abstracted into their own chunk of code so only that piece needs to be touched. I think either extreme approach is a bit insane, use a bit of both a know when each is appropriate.

  7. Re:Drizzle? on David Axmark Resigns From Sun · · Score: 1

    Your definition of huge is funny, I have tables that are growing a million rows a month and that's for a small S&P 500 company. I have a friend who does joins on multiple tables with 300+M rows every day. I'm not bragging because my DB is huge (it's not) but more commenting on the fact that so many slashdotters seem to lack a perspective on what a truly large DB is.

  8. Re:Drizzle? on David Axmark Resigns From Sun · · Score: 4, Informative

    That advice is only appropriate in the expected query results are small, on large tables using stored procedures can significantly reduce the load on the DB by not requiring it to handle open connections while a large amount of data is streamed to the remote client.

  9. Re:Translation on Cisco Ships Mexican Folk Music On VPN Client CD · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, you can have the concentrator check the client, unless someones figured out how to fake the cryptographic signature with a tampered binary there's no real chance of a secure network being compromised.

  10. This is news? on Mathematicians Deconstruct US News College Rankings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doesn't everyone know that the front page rankings are worthless and it's the per area/major rankings and the detailed information that's important? Also the rankings are only a place to start, you need to do an extended visit to your top 5 schools to see how likely you are to be compatible with the school.

  11. Re:Nagios is great on Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring · · Score: 1

    You can set the polling interval on a per service or monitor basis in WhatsUp as well. It also includes remediation in the base price (though it doesn't include any functionality other than restart service out of the box, but that's usually custom anyways). Their discounts would have to be like 90% to be cost competitive, do you have any idea what their site licensing costs are like? I don't feel like being pestered by a sales puke for information that should be right on their website.

  12. Re:Nagios is great on Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Hyperic looks cool but the support costs are insane, ~$800/2CPU's/year? I only paid around $1,600 for WhatsUp and pay a fraction of that per year in maintenance to monitor up to 1,000 devices. It's not perfect but I can deal with some warts for that kind of savings!

  13. Re:About overclockers: on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1

    The GP said:
    explicitly defines VDD as 1.5 V +/- 0.075 V for DDR3-compliant memory modules

    1.5*.05 = .075 so the spec only allows for 5% variance up or down for VDD, this is half as much as most specs allowed for. For example DDR1 was 2.5V +/- .2V

  14. Re:I don't get memory overclocking on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1

    Athlon64 X2 4200+ low power. Relatively small cache compared to the processing power.

  15. Re:How much were you making in 2003? on Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September · · Score: 1

    My big fear is Obama wins and actually does what will be needed which is cutting spending and raising taxes like Carter did and we end up with 12 years or Republicans claiming the good economy is all their doing.

  16. Re:computationally cheaper? on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    Exactly, for most sites today encryption would be a rounding error in their CPU budget.

  17. Re:Less secure than 128bit SSL? Why? on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    If the encryption is computationally cheaper, then the decryption is computationally cheaper.

    Not at all true, 3DES is much more secure than about 90% of the more computationally expensive encryption options.

  18. Re:The problem is IPv4 on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    Yeah and IPv6 makes this particular scheme unneeded by universally supporting IPSEC.

  19. Re:I don't get memory overclocking on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've never noticed it in gaming, but matching the latency to the CPU timing can noticeably affect video encoding. Changing my ram from stock 3-3-3-5 to it's full supported 2-2-2-3 decreased encoding time significantly with no other changes to the machine.

  20. Re:Not news on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1

    Actually plenty of OEM's bin parts from ATI/NVidia and sell parts that are overclocked according to the chip supplier. These part's are often labeled OC and carry a price premium but have a full manufacturer warranty.

  21. Re:About overclockers: on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1

    Wow, the spec is pretty tight, traditionally PC specs allowed for +/- 10% for voltages to allow for cheaper PSU's, I guess the power filtering on newer motherboards needs to be pretty good to stay in spec.

  22. Re:GPS uses signal strength? on How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1

    Except modern receivers CAN use signal strength to account for phase shift due to atmospheric conditions.

  23. Re:I dunno.. on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    What kind of disk's? There are a lot of ways to do disks in a virtualization environment and they are definitely not equal. For production DB's the best I've seen is ESX 3.5 with raw FC access and native volumes, only an ~10% I/O penalty which can be acceptable depending on the workload and cost/benifit analysis. Using 3.0 or Xen with NFS volumes was terribly painful for DB stuff.

  24. Re:wrong audience, buddy on How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1

    Cruising altitude isn't a problem at all, that's only a max of ~8 miles, I talk to a tower further away than that most of the time at home with 2 bars and an EDGE data connection. In fact we know that phones will work on a plane at full speed due to 9/11, many people called their loved ones from the plane to say their farewells.

  25. Re:Already slashdotted! on How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1

    Actually, pure GSM SMS is carried in the status message that the phone and tower trade whenever they talk which is why it is so limited in length. Today most phones will attempt to use the data service if available and fallback to the old method only if the data connection doesn't work.