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  1. Evaluation on What Is Fair Technical Support From a Manufacturer? · · Score: 1

    Vendors are usually willing to lend you a model for evaluation.

  2. Re:I got a better idea on Windows Genuine Advantage Gets More Lenient · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If WGA is to help a customer ensure that their copy of Windows is genuine and not to thwart pirates then make it a tool that the customer can run when they choose not a constant bother. Make WGA help not hinder.

  3. Re:Yeah, right. on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IP lawsuits and deceptive marketing assure us that there is no free market in at least the western world.

  4. Better safety with other systems on Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would more lives be saved inventing and installing an in-cabin fire suppression system instead of an anti-missile system?

  5. Re:Cool... now make it part of another standard on OpenDocument Now Published ISO Standard · · Score: 2, Funny

    ISO is already used for dirty tricks like keeping consultants employed.

  6. Standard data format on The Importance of OS Backwards Compatibility · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If corporate data was stored in more open format legacy applications would not be such a problem.

  7. Bots accounting for questionable browser habits on Extent of Government Computers Infected By Bots Uncertain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many of these bots are there to generate hits for porn sites thus making the employees look bad?

  8. Identify bottle necks on To Grid Or Not To Grid? · · Score: 1

    It seems to that you do not know, or have not stated, why these transactions take twenty to thirty minutes. Identify the bottle neck (e.g. network, memory, CPU, i/o) and then you'll know how to improve the performance.

  9. Re:Anything on the router level? on Rethinking IM Privacy For Kids · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Take contorl of their PCs and reduce their user rights. In truth, IM as very difficult to monitor reliably. There are ways to defeat most logging facilities.

  10. Re:Children.... on Continued Opposition To Laptops in Schools · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Indeed. PowerPoint is no substitute for speech writing and presentation skills. There is a book called "What coporate Americal can't build: A sentence".

  11. Back to Thin clients on Vista the Last of Its Kind · · Score: 1

    I say back to thin clients. Control, security and support are all easier if coporations would go back to thin clients.

  12. Re:For the lazy on VMware Announces UVAC Winners · · Score: 1

    The actual VMware page does not render well in Firefox for me. A reprint was much easier to read.

  13. Better than OpenView I hope on HP Announces Support for Debian Linux · · Score: 1

    HP's OpenView product mentions support for Debian. Unfortunately, this idea of support means that you have configure your Debian box to work with RPMs and then try and install them.

  14. Reliability on "iSCSI killer" Native in Linux · · Score: 1, Interesting

    People often forget there is a considerable difference in the reliability of ATA drives versus SCSI. If you are going to use some sort of ATA based SAN be prepared for disk failures much sooner than if they were SCSI.

  15. Re:Avoid the bash and move straight to the tangent on What Does the Microsoft ODF Converter Mean? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I write my resume in LaTeX. It allows me to have one source and offer formats in html and pdf automatically.

  16. Re:What about us Brits? on GnuCash 2.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    GnuCash can use the double entry system. That is pretty universal.

  17. Civ I and II on The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming · · Score: 1

    The early years of the Civilization games.

  18. Re:Where have the nerds gone? on 17 Online File Storage Services Tested · · Score: 1

    I backup with friends and colleagues. Peer to peer backups cost only bandwidth an some diskspace, which you share in return. Files are encrypted of course.

  19. Re:Someone missed the memo on More PDF Blackout Follies · · Score: 2, Funny

    The animated moggie Word assitant really adds a professional touch ;)

  20. Re:If studying the work of God isn't allowed.... on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    Whether it is science of the bible; religion takes whatever favours their beliefs and discards the rest as hericy

  21. Tops? on HP is Tech's New Top Dog? · · Score: 1

    HP the top dog? I'll return to attempting to make OpenView work now.

  22. Re:*over the years* on Ballmer Beaten by Spyware · · Score: 1

    Connecting a Linux box to the Internet will not result in instant spyware.

  23. Re:ODF on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Store them in a versioning system (e.g. Subversion).

  24. Re:would Sun put all their weight behind apt-get? on Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    For unusual installs such as installing a very new version of an application (e.g. Eclipse) depedancies and versions can be a problem. Redhat's standard fair includes Eclipse 2.1. Debian includes 3.0 in stable and 3.1 in testing. I can install 3.1 in Debian and still keep the rest of my packages stable.

  25. Re:would Sun put all their weight behind apt-get? on Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    I do not believe that the Solaris packaging tools handle dependancies well. It is a mostly manual process.