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  1. Re:ID cards... on The Khaki Bandit Strikes At IT - 130 Stolen Laptops · · Score: 1

    The problem here may be the technology (if the card wear or failure rate is very high). In the end your company just has to suck up the costs and deal with it. The idea of having someone who recognizes everyone doesn't scale, doesn't work when you have many entrances and doesn't work well when you terminate someone.

  2. Re:Best Buy is the showroom for the internet... on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Not just 'Best Buy', but overpriced retail in general. If a shop doesn't add any value (knowledgeable staff, good prices, generous satisfaction/return policy, et cetera), then they won't get the sale. It doesn't mean that I won't go there to see how the device feels in my hands, but I won't buy it. It isn't just for technology either. Same thing applies to most everything (just write down the details on a piece of paper and use http:///{google,ebay}.com).

  3. I want my, I want my ... on RIAA Sues Usenet.com · · Score: 1

    I want my NZBs.

  4. Re:From what I understand... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    Being rich doesn't mean that you are not a sucker. You just don't care as much. Maybe the rich people are treating these extravagant services and products as a charity for people who can't come up with products or services that really mean a difference. Who knows what goes through the head of someone who pays about one thousand times more than the average person on speaker/component cables. :-)

  5. Re:Couldn't it be proven (or disproven)... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    You would also have to prove that whatever electrical characteristics affect sound quality in a noticeable way across a variety of 'classes' of audio hardware. Without that, you haven't proved the worth of these cables (to an audiophile).

  6. Re:FDIC insurance on FDIC Closes Netbank, One of the First Online Banks · · Score: 1

    VIII. Dividend Information
    Due to the projected sale of assets of the former bank, the FDIC is in the position to provide each uninsured depositor with an dividend equal to 50% of your uninsured amount. These funds will be deposited directly into your account net of your uninsured portion.
    Dividend Information on Failed Financial Institutions contains general information about the dividend process. http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/netbank.html
  7. It doesn't matter, due to the DMCA ... on New iPod Checksum Cracked, Linux Supported · · Score: 1

    I have the feeling that the DMCA may stop some distros from being able to include this kind of a hack. It does seem to me that it is circumventing some kind of security measure. :-/

    In the end, it was great work to have it done, but I urge people to not buy devices that you have to hack around to make it work the way you want it. There are plenty of open devices that one can use without this kind of hassle.

  8. Re:A question on Cisco Confirms Regex Flaw in IOS · · Score: 1

    I've only interacted with Cisco support once, for replacing a PIX. Called them up, RMA was delivered shortly thereafter. Try calling them, if you do pay for support.

  9. Re:Nope on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The fact that Microsoft has their legacy blobs all over the OOXML that they write is exactly why I don't like it. They don't seem to want to implement it in an open fashion. They just want to fein like they are being open so that all of the goverment agencies and corporations that are concerned about vendor lock-in are given a warm fuzzy feeling.

    So yeah, the standard is shit. Nobody can implement it the way that the creator can, by the creator's very design. It is defective by design, as the nutty FSF people like to say.

  10. Re:'dynamically' realocating servers on Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers · · Score: 1

    Since the install time is so little, it didn't matter much to me. VMware and Xen add complexity that wasn't necessary in my ideal, plus those solutions were well not terribly well vetted in the enterprise when I came up with the idea 3 years ago.

    The real benefit to those is that if you have systems that don't need resources in large chunks (i.e. 2-4 dual core Opterons, 8-16 GiB of RAM). That chunk size seemed to be fine, and it was similar to what the DBAs were used to throwing into our V880s when they needed to get more power.

    The other aspect of this is you have to measure utilization very well. If someone isn't using their system, and doesn't have any specific hardware tie-ins, they get virtualized. If someone needs to grow a lot, very fast, they get new servers. Now that I think about it, security of the drives and data aside, this could work out well for a large managed datacenter. You don't need your servers, they are shut down. You also have your non-sold equipment on standby for surges in demand. Having that on tap in even 1/2 an hour would be fantastic.

  11. 'dynamically' realocating servers on Benchmarking Power-Efficient Servers · · Score: 1

    This was an idea that I had before at the last job, never got a chance to implement it. We had a lot of cluster nodes for computing various things that were business related. There was a queue of work, and they got assigned to nodes if it matched the right criteria. The issue is that we had a few things, like crunching financial data at month/year end which required us to have some database servers that were beefier than others.

    So the idea was to have systems re purposed automatically, using something like Oracle Rack 10G. You have a need for more database performance, you take unused nodes from your fluid dynamics processing pool, make them oracle nodes (took about 15-20 minutes to install RHEL 4) and go to town. This works a lot better with things like LDAP servers, web servers, et cetera, but we needed it for Oracle.

    So anyways, this would be one way of eliminating unused hardware, being nimble about how what application uses it. This also would be combined with shutting down cluster nodes that are not in use. Boot time is so cheap, why bother keeping them on.

  12. Re:Not really.... on Russian Court Acquits allofmp3.com Owner · · Score: 1, Funny

    im in ur soviet russia
    belonging all of your mp3s

  13. Re:Not like Debian on Ubuntu Servers Hacked · · Score: 1

    There is no word on what was compromised exactly, but network drivers shouldn't affect their ability to update the userland portion of Ubuntu whatsoever. That is assuming that there was a remote exploit in one of the services that they ran, and that someone didn't just sniff their unencrypted FTP authentication.

  14. Re:If it cannot be loaded without the linux kernel on VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights · · Score: 1

    You do not need an argument to say, 'Does VMware ESX server use any GPL or LGPL software of any versions, and if so, may I please have the sources to that software'. You can also add, and if so why are you violating the GPL by not including the sources or how to get the sources in the distribution? You could ask any vendor for that, and they would have to comply.

    It also is very easy to prove that it is Linux if you have access to the software. Nuances of the TCP/IP stack, et cetra should reveal some detail of the lineage of the underlying OS.

  15. Re:If it cannot be loaded without the linux kernel on VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights · · Score: 1

    So someone who uses ESX server asks 'em for the sources under the GPL. :-) Or their lawyer does.

  16. Re:How is this news? on Couple Bonding Through PC Building · · Score: 1

    some people If only /. supported all of the wikipedia tags :-), like {{weasel word}}. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_wease l_words
  17. Re:Oh yeah. Completely. on Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    How is this troll insightful? :-P

    The idea is that you have access to the source of the application if you want to review it. You don't have to look at it, ever ... but it is there if you want to. Without source code, you have to trust the company that wrote the software. I don't know that many companies that I would trust the software from, personally.

    They have no obligation to provide the source, just like many people don't have an obligation to buy their hardware. In fact, because the consensus seems to be that nVidia's drives are better than ATI's, a lot of people are doing just that. Having their drivers be open source gives them a very big competitive edge, they just don't know it yet.

  18. Re:How can reciepts ever work? on Punchscan Wins Open Source Voting Competition · · Score: 1

    Well since they used a random number generator, I assume that there is a cryptographic reason that they can't forge the receipt as well ...

  19. Re:Mixed feelings on Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail · · Score: 1

    First the state is involved with highly stringent verification and validation of all electronic games of chance. What about monitoring? In this electronic age, they should be monitoring the payout of their devices, looking for strange activity, et cetera. I think that if an ATM was paying out 4x more than what it was logged to, someone should have noticed. They shouldn't have to wait for someone to report this.
  20. Re:heh on Harry Potter Leaked Via Handheld Camera · · Score: 2, Informative
  21. Re:heh on Harry Potter Leaked Via Handheld Camera · · Score: 3, Informative

    A telesync is normally an improvement of sound quality by syncing either the FM broadcast for the hearing impaired (or at a drive-in), or directly into the soundboard. Sometimes the reason that they got a soundboard feed is because they are a projectionist, which is why the video quality may be improved, but this isn't always the case. I think that you mean a dvdscr or dvdrip. :-)

  22. Re:note to self on Will Security Firms Detect Police Spyware? · · Score: 1

    If I buy software, I expect the company to be loyal to me. If it detects malware it is not there to judge the intentions of the malware, simply report/quarantine/remove the malware. If it is not possible to detect, they should be forgiven. If they make a deal with law-enforcement agencies, it should be boycotted.

    What happens if the 'good' malware technology gets into the wrong hands? I'm sure that couldn't happpen.

  23. Re:And you forgot one. on Tim Lister on Project Sluts and Strawmen · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't get karma for 'Funny' posts. This is a pretty informative post, I reckon.

  24. Audible Magic ... on Belgian ISP Forced To Block P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Can anyone let me know if 'Audible Magic' has a tag and rename feature? Can it download album art? I need to know more about this product!!!!!1one

  25. Re:tag: !unbricking unlocking on Free the iPhone from AT&T · · Score: 1

    Something else then. Someone gathered the activation codes. Either way, not unbricking.