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  1. Good Luck on Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers · · Score: 1

    Better Be a 5 1/4 Single Sided Floppy Attack

  2. True 64 bit or WoW64? on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only · · Score: 1

    The article seems mostly to lament Mac stuff. But one has to be curious whether this 64 bit version of Photoshop is truly 64 bit or uses 64 bit emulation like AutoCAD 2008.

  3. IE Only Applications on Firefox Struggling to Compete as Corporate Browser · · Score: 1

    I find some dark enjoyment that some applications are IE only. The poorly written code that makes up IE only application generally means they require all browser security settings to be turned off. Consequently, I allow IE to only go to a restricted set of sites on the Internet, whereas Firefox users can go anywhere on the net.

  4. Re:Exchange integration? on Google Mobile Phones Debut in Feb? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm hoping the connection is a Internet standard like IMAP or POP, something that I can come to grips with should there be an issue. Dealing with Verizon and Motorola phones is a real joy, not. I'm looking forward to a proliferation of iPhones and IMAP. I'm sure Apple will have European data roaming figured out soon enough.

  5. No Wonder, a 3MB Image on the Front Page on China Anti-Corruption Web Site Crashes On First Day · · Score: 1

    Curious icons of people, I've never before noticed many fair skinned, blond haired folks from the Middle Kingdom.

  6. Re:Not Everything... on Open Source Telephony Gives Customers Control · · Score: 1

    True, learning Asterisk has a steep learning curve. I was part of a team implementing Asterisk, we paired the server with Cisco phones (what joy in flashing to go from SKINNY to SIP). Then the fun of figuring out little problems like echo and porting over phone numbers. This was all with fairly decent networking and Linux abilities. But the stuff works, that company has multiple offices all running on the one server. Coding every feature that they might desire is being done. I have moved on to being an IT Director without a sufficiently experienced Linux crew, so I'm taking the easier route and going with Fonality. I get full access to the Asterisk box at my site but all configuration is done with their GUI. And most importantly with their support. I had no idea how much a phone systems cost before I arrived at Asterisk. I had no idea that one could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a phone system. Granted companies are starting to look at the SMB but they are still locked away in the modules market. Take a Toshiba, for instance, you have a box that houses the cards, you want to upgrade, you get another card. You fill that cabinet and you have to buy a new card. You want to upgrade another part, well guess what, you throw away that cabinet and get a new one. Avaya has begun to think of the SMB and purchased another company. 3Com sounded somewhat OK but perhaps my rep got lost. Shoretel touted itself as way less than the competition but even they were in around a $100K. With all of the bells and whistles, Fonality was still half the cost. Straight Asterisk would be about a fifth of that. Fonality will give you the use of a demo system, it took me all of twenty minutes to call my rep with the demo handset using the new server. It sure helped sell management when I could show them that Intel was giving Fonality VC money. I have no connection with Fonality, other than being a happy customer. Knowing the underlying architecture, if I grow to hate them in the future, I still have an Asterisk boxes (thanks Markster!)

  7. What About Macs? on New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm no Mac head but an enemy of my enemy is a friend of mine. Do Macs have the same issues?

  8. Superman on How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars · · Score: 1

    Oh man, we really live on Krypton.

  9. New Title for Posting on Anti-P2P College Bill Moving Through House · · Score: 1

    Congress Removes $100 Billion in Funding from Colleges

  10. Quality of Service on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 1

    If QOS is turned off, do you still see a loss of 10%? Sounds like the simplest answer. I've been playing with IPTables and privatization of packets. This is very cool for giving the ssh interactive traffic priority over Windows network chatter, even better when something (READ: Windows) is broken across the WAN.

  11. Re:You've Got To Be Kidding... on Microsoft to Offer Free Online Storage · · Score: 2, Funny

    The size of their thumb drive array must be enormous.

  12. Congress People (Mine? Hrmph) on Day of Silence On the Internet · · Score: 5, Informative

    So, I called my people in Congress. Levin hasn't taken a position and wouldn't say when he would (I'll take that as "no"). Stabenow put me on voicemail and promised to call back (funny, "no" again). Dingell, ah there's the funny part. I talk to the aide, he hasn't heard about the bill. I tell him H.R.2060 and he's able to look it up. Then says they are not familiar with the bill. I ask when it'll be voted on and the aide says the bill is still in committee. I ask, "how can I find out who is on the committee?" His reply, "Dingell is chair of the committee." Sounds like the bill is doomed.

  13. SCO? on Microsoft Patent Deal Could Leave Novell Behind · · Score: 1

    Is there no connection between the patents that Novell hold over Unix and Microsoft?

  14. Vote for Teddy Roosevelt on Microsoft's Long-Playing Business Record · · Score: 1

    If you want to bust the monopoly.

  15. Re:Where can I get one of those bags? on RSA Creating RFID Blocker Tag · · Score: 1

    Not to worry, given enough time in the US, the court system will strip the last vestiges of morals from our society.

  16. Wide Spectrum on Senators Aim to Wirelessly Jumpstart Broadband · · Score: 3, Funny

    I couldn't think of a wider spectrum that would exist than between liberal Boxer and conservative Allen.

  17. The Code Red Fix on Controversy Surrounds Huge IE Hole · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No more clogging of the Apache error logs looking for default.ida, default.ida will now exist with a javascript. Of course I'm not mean enough to delete their harddrive but they might wonder why they left open a command window saying their computer is infected with Code Red.

  18. RedHat 8.0 Mirrors on UUNET/WorldCom Backbone Diffiiculties · · Score: 1

    So this is where online distribution is taking us...