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  1. Palm no go on Google Offering Live Traffic Maps via Cell Phones · · Score: 4, Informative
    Note: Maps does not currently work with Nextel, T-Mobile USA or BREW-enabled phones (e.g. Verizon, Alltel, U.S. Cellular), or Palm devices.
    Doesn't work on my Treo 650. This is made for small cell phone people, who are different than us big cell phone people. I hope they choke on their tiny lozenge sized phones.
  2. Lots of files to download... on Microsoft Acquires Winternals and Sysinternals · · Score: 1

    Anyone know of a single .zip that includes all the sysinternals downloadable programs? I started to download a few and realized it would take me hours clicking to each page.

  3. Re:using thin clients at a call center on Windows Thin Clients - Worth Making the Switch? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have to give props to the parent. I've spent a while searching for a good thin client system and have finally settled on LTSP. Amazingly easy to set up and amazing documentation. The kind of documentation that gives real answers, doesn't just lead you on a wild google chase. I'm impressed how fast it is.

  4. Learning to sing in tune on Software for Your Musical Instruments? · · Score: 1

    Anyone know of software that plays a pitch and shows where it is on a staff (or sliding scale), then you try to match that pitch and it shows where you are in relation to the source? I saw some software like that at a music teaching school about a year ago. I'd love to get my hands on something like that so I could hone my vocal pitch better.

  5. Play in the morning on World of Queuecraft · · Score: 1

    Have your guild reschedule your MC/BWL/AQ raids for 6am weekday mornings. I mean, if you're regularly raiding those instances you probably don't have a job anyway.

  6. I like it! on Slashdot Index Code Update · · Score: 1

    Apparently it knows I always click the Games header after I read the main page. Very cool, please keep it going or at least make it a selectable style sheet.

  7. How Bad?... on How Bad Will The 360 Shortage Be? · · Score: 1

    How Bad Will The 360 Shortage Be?
    It won't be too bad. I'm not gonna buy one :).

  8. Security Audits on Network Penetration Scans and Executive Reaction? · · Score: 1

    I'm one of those people who does 3rd party security audits. Having been in the position of the 1st party before I always make sure the report doesn't include all the junk that the poster is complaining about. I provide any gaping holes that should be addressed on the first 2 pages, then put all the wishy-washy junk at the end with a notice that it's not important. Any good security auditor would do the same.

  9. Re:use IMAP for all of them on Mozilla Lightning to Challenge Outlook · · Score: 1

    That's a very tempting route. However I'm not a programmer so I don't have the skills to create an IMAP store for calendaring or contacts. I agree, though, IMAP has the framework to handle these other projects beautifully it would seem. Courier-IMAP doesn't allow for this according to the primary maintainer. Is there already such a thing in another IMAP implementation?

  10. Shared data stores? on Mozilla Lightning to Challenge Outlook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it doesn't allow users to share contacts then it's no competition. My customers could care less about shared calendaring. What people need is an alternative to the simple shared contact database that Exchange provides.

    There are three components to the holy grail of exchange destroyers:

    1. Shared mail store
    2. Shared calendaring
    3. Shared contacts.

    I've got 1 and 2 covered (Courier IMAP and Mozilla calendar with WebDAV backend). There is still no uniform contact database backend... and don't start talking LDAP. LDAP only allows me to read from a directory. People have to be able to add/delete/change records and share entire directories just like in Exchange. *AND* it has to be a cross-platform accessible format so that the I can write a plug-in for any interface (web, mozilla, etc). I was thinking something similar to WebDAV that I use for calendars.

    People need their personal contact database and shared db's in their organization to be accessible from anywhere, anytime. I can't believe MS is the only player in this court. Groupwise doesn't count because it's still sucks. Opengroupware and it's clones only work with outlook. The point is to get away entirely from the crushing thumb of MS.

    rant over.

  11. Re:I'd rather see on Windows vs. Linux Security, Once More · · Score: 1

    I'm service many different and disparate industries: software design, video game design, board game design(!), art & design, PR, tow truck companies, doctors/dentists/lawyers, ASP's, you name it, I do it (preferably with linux). The point I so poorly made was that we all know linux is more secure / costs less back in the server room. Ok, maybe upper management doesn't now that. But I'd like a similar article that I could hand to the boss that describes why linux would be better on the desktop. Right now if I hand them something for the desktop it's usually a form to renew licenses, and they all hate licensing.

  12. I'd rather see on Windows vs. Linux Security, Once More · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd rather see OSX security compared to Windows. I only have one user adventurous enough to use Linux on their desktop. The rest are about 70/30 Win/Mac.

  13. The FAQ is wrong on DSPAM v3.2 Released · · Score: 1

    From the DSPAM FAQ: SpamAssassin's primary detection facility has been designed to use a static set of rules to service all users of the system. That's not true at all. Each of my users maintains their own bayesian db's and custom rules if they choose. It's in $USER/.spamassassin.

  14. Minority Report... on Intelligent Transportation Systems · · Score: 1

    I've been dreaming of a system like this since I was a kid. The first time I'd seen it realized was in the movie Minority Report. I'm on the fence about how much privacy I'd give up to make roads more efficient.

  15. Re:IBM Lawyers on SCO Caps Legal Expenses At $31 Million · · Score: 1

    I mean SCO lawyers. It's early for me.

  16. SCO Lawyers on SCO Caps Legal Expenses At $31 Million · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I kinda wish I was a SCO lawyer. They're making phat bank and they must know it's all going to fall apart in the end. They'll walk away with pockets full of cash and they won't be liable for anything I bet. (IANAL)

  17. I did this myself on Revolutionary Spam Firewall Developed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any incoming email that spamassassin detects as spam I record the IP for. If that IP has more than 2 infractions in a given amount of time I execute an ssh command to add an iptables rule to my firewall to block that IP. Problem solved.

  18. All we need now.... on Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2 · · Score: 1

    ... is a way to host contacts on a webDAV server with a browsable interface akin to outlook. The one thing keeping me from every deploying Exchange again is the ability to keep contacts server-side with a built in ACL for sharing them. If only contacts could be stored with IMAP...

  19. Best Console App Evar on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    tload. Marvel at it's ascii glory.

  20. src.rpm on Build From Source vs. Packages? · · Score: 1

    I used to maintain 100+ distinct servers with packages built from source. It was a full time job taking at least 50 hours a week.

    Now I use apt-get and build rpm packages from source for distribution to all those machines. I get paid the same and only spend about 5 hours a week maintaining packages.

    I'm using my free time to create a chocolate dessert recipe book. YMMV

  21. Yuck on Essential Check Point Firewall-1 NG · · Score: 1

    Ugh, checkpoint. Gag me with a spoon. I'd rather use a cisco pix.

  22. Too difficult on Live Windows Bootable CDs for Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Y'know how windows users always complain about how difficult it is to install and configure linux. This bootable Windows CD has totaly lost me. Why do I have to download all this other crap just to get it to work on any system? The only thing this has over knoppix (presubaly) is native NTFS support. There's nothing I haven't been able to do to a windows machine with knoppix except write to NTFS.

  23. Fake name on Stores Use Discount Cards To Notify Of Recall · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My friend won the H2 Hummer for using their card. They wouldn't have had it if they didn't use thier real name and address. Personally, I just don't go to stores that have *the card*.

  24. Wierd on Turbine Buys Asheron's Call From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I find this interesting because I thought Turbine was devoting their resources to developing D&D online What a stark contrast that will be to the asstastic failure that AC2 was.

  25. Treo on Magnetic Induction Technology Headset Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I have a handspring treo (love it). The headphone jack is a 3 conductor instead of the standard 2 conductor plug. It's almost impossible to find 3 conductor adaptors for the damn thing. I really want something like the auracomm headset, but if it doesn't work with a 3C plug then I'm screwed. Anyone know of a company that makes something like this?