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  1. Assuming it is windows on Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft User State Migration Tool + Microsoft Deployment ToolKit + Sdelete http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443

    You should be able to backup the profile, load the OS and run a zeroing delete on all "empty space" on the drive.

  2. Re:I use an optical drive to install the OS on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just installed my last os via USB. It was much faster than via optical drive. (speed depends on quality of USB drive)

  3. Re:She's going to wake up anyway on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools To Aid When "On Call"? · · Score: 2

    King size foam or similar mattress will allow you to get up without disturbing your partner... or in my case partner and small child also sleeping on my bed. It is a case of space and motion transfer... Just don't trip on something on your way out of the room.

    As for stealth notification, if your notification system can phone you instead of just texting / emailing you, there are a variety of Bluetooth watches out their that vibrate and do caller ID that I think would work.

  4. Re:What are the range of failures? on Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Correct, however the minimum you can take from the correct data is that Apple has support EACH model with OS updates for up to 3 years, your typical longest cellular contract, and each device launch with its latest available OS.

    Android phones regularly launch with software 1 version behind and support drops as early as 6 months after launch.

  5. Re:Cloud Computing on Is RIM's Centralized Network Model Broken? · · Score: 1

    We run both BBs and ActiveSync devices....

    From a business point of view BB has more points of failure, PERIOD.. However it is more data efficient and secure.

    BB Email
    Exchange->BES/BIS Server->Internet->RIM Network->Internet->Mobile Provider->BB
    6 hops
    Most common reason for failure? RIM Network

    ActiveSync / iPhone
    3 hops
    Exchange->Internet->Mobile Provider-> Device.
    Most Common reason for failure? Mobile Provider issues.

    At last in our environment in the last 4 years we have had more failures with our BBs than any of our Android or iPhone users... Also our user base is constantly opting out of company BBs in favor of ActiveSync devices.

  6. Re:far from the end on Is RIM's Centralized Network Model Broken? · · Score: 1

    Unless you administratively block tethering it still doesn't stop your Execs from taking it to Mexico, and watching Neflix with their laptop then getting a $$$$$ roaming bill or higher. Trust me... We have them with both BB and iPhones. Disabling data roaming seems to work best, as using WiFi is something some of them seem to understand.

  7. Re:rDNS on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, you can't hard fail on it because too many of your clients will have it configured incorrectly.

  8. WOW bad headling and BAD summary on Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark · · Score: 4, Informative

    Should probably read....
    Remote communities in Canada's far north without internet.

    Any major populated area connected by land line will not be impacted... In fact I would argue that nothing larger than a "Town" is likely impacted impacted.

  9. Re:Great, another fucking language to learn on Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart · · Score: 1

    That's because C forces you to actually think about what you're doing, most people don't like that.

    C is like building a house by hand without any power tools, or hiring anyone else to do specialized tasks.. Then furnishing it with custom built furniture or stuff from IKEA.

  10. Re:Lua? on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    Lua seems to be the go too language for scripting in many commercial projects these days... I have ran into it several times.

    Cisco ASA Endpoint assessment system uses it
    World of War Craft uses it for its UI extensions
    The Unreal Engine uses it for Scripting

    There are others, but those jump out at me from recent memory...

  11. Re:See /. article immediately below on Could Assortative Mating Explain Autism? · · Score: 1

    However Women taking Birth Control pills have there algorithm altered. Makes you wonder how many little things ad up to result in a cause.

  12. Re:I agree on Linus Thinks Virtualization Is 'Evil' · · Score: 1

    Hardware failures in our VMWare environment tend to go almost completely um-noticed by server admins and en users... We have had network cards fail, Host power loss, and ram failures... The VMWare brings the VMs back on line so fast that there is rarely an alarm on the service, instead just something we need to fix on the back-end.

    This goes extra for storage where we regularly shift VMs between SANs by different manufacturers using storage VMotion, LIVE.

  13. Re:hypervisors are a necessary evil on Linus Thinks Virtualization Is 'Evil' · · Score: 2

    Accept now you need a Linux Vitalization admin and a Windows Virtualization admin.. You have just doubled the number of "platform specific" gotchas you need to learn, plus unlike having a single VMWare cluster you now have two clusters, probably increasing your hardware cost per vm by needing both platforms to maintain a proper save resource overhead to handle failures.

  14. Re:Who paid? on IE 9 Beats Other Browsers at Blocking Malicious Content · · Score: 1

    Where are those mod points when you need them?

  15. Re:Works for me on Mozilla's Nightingale: Why Firefox Still Matters · · Score: 1

    http://www.allisnotlo.st/index_en.html is a newer one, spoofed my user agent and it would not run at all in FF.

  16. Re:Developers... on Low Violence Red Orchestra 2 For Australia · · Score: 1

    For details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_mod however be warned that screen shots of low polygon fooling around are included.

  17. Re:Yes, it's coming on Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013 · · Score: 1

    If your Firewall is not able to effectively identify scans and brute force attacks on the IPv6 address of the IPv6 load-balanced proxy, your IPv6 load-balanced proxy will then become the point of failure for attack. If you do IDP and application proxy protection behind the load-balanced proxy you will never know the source of the attack and thus can't block the source because the source will be the load-balanced proxy.

  18. Re:Yes, it's coming on Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013 · · Score: 1

    Who's your Firewall vendor and what are you doing for advanced IDP / Application layer protection / Web filtering / intrusion detection? Many vendors are claiming IPv6 as a feature in firewall products but as soon as you scratch the surface you find that that support is often VERY limited, sometimes it is just routing and basic state-full fire-walling, other times feature are unstable / unsupported in on IPv6 traffic.

  19. Re:Stop me if I'm wrong but... on Getting the Latest Rover To Mars · · Score: 1

    When I saw the last stage I almost fell out of my chair!. What the hell happened to keeping it simple!

  20. Re:Great, so how the hell do I paint ashalt shingl on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Um... Pardon Me, But... on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    And Juniper is using JunOS on it's new Switches and Firewalls now, not just it's routers.

  22. A Smart man once said... on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Never memorize what you can look up in books. --Albert_Einstein
    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

  23. Re:Implying on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    None of the current tech really addressed the inability of the TSA preventing people from taking box cutters on plains as illustrated by things like this http://www.blackmediascoop.com/2011/06/17/chef-gets-by-tsa-onto-a-plane-with-4-knives-in-bag/ .

    Since 2001 the door to the cockpit has been improved and the procedures for the pilots... Nothing on the ground has really fixed the issue.

  24. Re:It still has no live news or live sports on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 1

    Why would you pay for Cable to watch news? I have 4 local stations that I get in Digital 1080i OTA with a simple antenna? Typically better image quality than the compressed and re-encoded feeds the Cable/Sat providers have.

  25. Version numbers are meaningless on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Each company and such has a bizarre meaning to version numbers.
    FF 5 IS the security update to FF4.
    Much like Chrome goes up by major numbers.

    Then you look at open source where things often start in the 0.01 range and every digit could be a new feature release.

    A number of companies use major.minor.build however it really isn't as standard as you think.
    Cisco ASA devices look like major.minor.build however new features regularly appear in the "Builds"

    Juniper security gear has gone to a year.quarter. release numbering system

    take your pick.