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  1. Here I was, trying out some new stuff which didn't work on my Ubuntu test system. Manager looks over my shoulder and asked what it takes to get the thing running, to which I replied "we need to buy Redhat". Guess I should have added "licences".

  2. Chinese calendar year on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, the chines calendar year is different from what "the west" has agreed upon. This awfully sounds like an april's fools joke.

  3. Re:We must stay competitive! on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    It is vital that NATO understands the implications of Quantum Radar technology on gender and feelings that emerge in the autoethnographic self of top level quantum radar LGBTQ*X scientists.

  4. Re:A Real Porker on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There's an X Files episode made like a black mirror episode which features a robot restaurant: https://www.geek.com/televisio...

  5. A big step towards running systemd on Windows!

  6. History acceleratingly repeating itself on Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:native sdk - its about time. on Palm Pre and WebOS Get Native Gaming · · Score: 2, Informative

    apple started off with "web" only development - then finally released a native SDK. google utilized it's Java like language (dalvik) - then finally released a native SDK (NDK).. there has been a native SDK since day one available for the Palm Pre

    The Android NDK is different from the Palm Pre SDK - NDK can only be used for number crunching. Front end still has to be implemented in Java. So no "recompile, deploy" as in the Palm Pre SDK.

  8. Not all Vista bashing is ignorant... on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But I don't really get the Vista bashing in the article. It is a good OS. It had its problems at launch, but those were mostly caused by driver issues. Its also a lot better with security. I would take Vista over XP anytime.

    I bashed, bash and will bash Vista for one thing which Microsoft ignored deliberately:

    "If it ain't broken, don't fix it!".

    Prefetch - adds no performance to my daily usage pattern
    Multmedia Priority Rescheduling - I never had trouble playing MP3s or movies
    Constand HD activity - makes me wonder "what the hell" is optimized when & why
    and so on and so on.

    Plus it takes double the time to wake up from hibernate then to boot (oh well, 4 (3.5) GiBs of RAM to be loaded)

  9. Austria... on Over Half a Million Bank Accounts Breached · · Score: 1

    I heard, that in Austria, phonebooks have a 'bogus record' inside them. Well, maybe banks should create such bogus records an give them to Choicepoint and Co. to at least find out where such leaks are? Kind of 'Honeypot account project'.

  10. If Windows is the target System... on Updating Free Software in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    ... and the workstations are uniform, may InstallWatch and InstallRite, together with an scheduled Task or logon-script would do the trick? http://www.epsilonsquared.com/

  11. Nice 64bit wallpaper on Microsoft Migrates Internal Servers to 64-bit · · Score: 1
  12. Re: Professional Excel Development on Professional Excel Development · · Score: 1

    Well, where I work, Excel and Access are the only allowed ways to develop anything.

    Excel isn't the path of the righteous it-man, but if the only tool you've got is a hammer...

    And, to make the bad even worse, I'm working for an accounting department - well, users seem to only know excel.

    Afterall, there are some thoughts about Excel and Spreadsheet applications at http://www.smallthought.com/

  13. Let them merge... on HP/Compaq Merger Apparently Approved · · Score: 1

    ... and they'll face the consequences. After a merger, some employees loose their job because there replaced by capital. But that means, that the new company *have* to be more efficient - and it must acquire more customers than compaq and hp had before. I don't think that there is possible to increase the market share for hp/compaq so that the merger will be good for the shareholder value.