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  1. Re:Has anyone else on slashdot heard of a computer on US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 · · Score: 1

    Have you seen how many filings have to be made for the tax collected? Figuring out the tax at point of sale is a tiny problem compared to that and that is really what has the people affected up in arms.

  2. Re:It's no biggie. You have to understand the big on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    If platform and information security are requirements, there's no alternative to VMware at scale.

    I'd like to see PCI/HIPAA Openstack. ;-)

    Random slashdot commenter knows more about PCI than Paypal -- seriously where did you get that?

  3. Ad relevancy is not that great on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    I got an ad on Facebook to try Chrome while browsing Facebook using Chrome! If that's how well they "target" their ads I don't see how anyone will get good performance for their ads.

  4. Re:Sure, This Month... on eBooks Nearly Outsell Print Books At Amazon · · Score: 1

    Sadly no Kindle/e-book version of TAOCP.

  5. Re:Shell context menu for folder you are in? on Windows 7: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    I'm not using 7even (or Fista), but I do "have" a 2008 Server that I often RD into, and the one thing that irritates me incredibly (even more than UAC) is that I have no idea how to pop up the shell context menu for the folder I'm currently in.

    In XP and earlier Windows, you'd just right-click on the folder icon on the top left of the window.

    In Fista and above, that just pops up the standard useless menu with move/restore/minimize/maximize, just as when you right-click on the title bar.

    Google is not helpful at all. The best I could get is an addition of "Open command prompt here" through shift+rightclick, but that's not what I want.

    Please help me out here if you've figured it out... I often use that context menu to fire up 7-zip, or grep, or a duplicate copy of Win Explorer, or other things, and every time I have to do something on that server, I want to scream.

    Right clicking on it in the folders list to the left (under Favorite Links)works for me

  6. Re:So have that juror explain to us on Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 1

    The difference is obviously in intent, the passwords in the filings was a mistake, everything Terry Childs did was pre-meditated. Which remotely competent network admin stores router configs on an encrypted DVD without a wr mem?

  7. Re:Well.. on Intel Confirms Data Corruption Bug, Halts New SSDs · · Score: 1

    I would have agreed with you on the obscure part if it only occured when the password is disabled. But to occur on password change and reboot seems more like an obvious case to me?

  8. Re:Please leave Lotus out! on IBM Pushing Microsoft-Free Desktops · · Score: 1
    So if I had a bad experience 3 years ago is it valid? Seriously, look at the comments on this article. Why on earth did it take so long for IBM to fix the biggest problem with Notes namely the UI? Does Notes still manage recurring meetings by creating 1,000 instances of the meeting? Who in their right mind even writes code like that?

    And the video you linked : "Encrypted Rich-text email" woo hoo. How about HTML? Why use a standard pioneered by Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format?

    While Notes might be great now, they sure burned a lot of bridges and that will always stand in the way of any world domination by Notes.

    P.S. The original Lotus Notes collaboration tool was very nice for it's time. Too bad IBM screwed it up before they woke up.

  9. Re:The bubble is back! on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1

    IANAP -- I Am Not A P**s? What the heck is with all the IANAx anyway?

  10. Re:Uh, no. on The Zen of Online Game Design · · Score: 1

    Or post as Plain Old Text.

  11. Re:I wish they had given my Rachel one... on Girl's Heart Regenerates With Artificial Assist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's interesting how much we expect medical caregivers to be aware of and which they are actually not. While you have my deepest sympathies for your loss, I couldn't help but recall 2 things that I ran across:

    - A study that showed that doctors tended to dismiss patient complaints about drug side effects
    - An article by a WSJ journalist covering medical issues where the first oncologist dismissed any suggestions from her.

    I guess in some cases it comes to down to the skill level of your medical staff and while that is a horrible way to put it I'm beginning to wonder if it might not be true.

  12. I tried to switch on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 1

    I switched to Ubuntu 5.0.5 for a few months as my primary desktop. This is a startup so no real entrenched MS stuff existed. I ended up switching back mostly because of a few things:

    - The password manager was terrible! Ironically on windows I use KeePass which is OSS!
    - OpenOffice works for the most part but it has strange glitches, including one (now fixed) where if you didn't pay attention and tried to save a spreadsheet as a PDF, it overwrote the original spreadsheet! Also, creating numbered paragraphs at different levels just doesn't work.
    - For some reason that I couldn't figure out the screen fonts were just slightly wrong, I could never get them to the point where they didn't cause me eyestrain.

  13. Re:If Spam is illegal then the Post Office should. on Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested · · Score: 1

    To opt-out of receiving snail junk mail check out http://www.junkbusters.com/junkmail.html.

  14. Slashdotted on Cleaning up Thunder Bluff · · Score: 1

    Site referenced in TFA appears to be slashdotted.

  15. 106 bytes and 220 bytes, ??? on The First Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1

    What do the 106 bytes and 220 bytes in the summary mean?
    I understand that hard drive makers use powers of 10 in preference to powers of 2 and it's a coincidence that 2^10 is close to 10^3, but the summary makes no sense as it stands.

  16. Re:Java on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable · · Score: 1
    What you need is a merge file for the framework version you want to use.

    They are usually files with a MSM extension, if you have Visual Studio you can pretty easily include it in a Setup Project.

    If not, you can do it using the tools that come with the Platform SDK.

  17. Re:Self-defeating argument on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I can persuade you with this list of Java Frameworks for web development: Struts 1, Struts 2 (yes they're that different), Stripes, Tapestry, Spring MVC, JSF?

  18. I used TaxCut which worked fine on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 1

    Filed at 5 PM PST -- No issues and got my DCN Today.
    While I prefer TurboTax for Stock Option guidance, perhaps I should stick to TaxCut in the future (I understand the tax code well enough to not really need much hand-holding)

  19. Re:search... on Why Desktop Email Still Trumps Webmail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously, are you suggesting that desktop based code searches large data sets better than Google?

  20. Re:Give Me The Desktop on People Don't Hate to Make Desktop Apps, Do They? · · Score: 1

    So, how would you code a HTML function?

  21. A missed command on Learn How UNIX Multitasks · · Score: 1

    If you want to kill all background processes use "kill 0"

  22. Spell checker issues, no visio on Open Office - What's the Downside? · · Score: 1

    I use Oo 2.1.x on a daily basis, I used Office 2003 in a previous job.

    The things that I find frustrating:

    - Spellcheck is very annoying. It seems to be missing a lot of common words.
    - Startup as many people have noted is slow.
    - I've noticed random spaces being inserted in printouts when they don't appear in the document.
    - Draw doesn't have nearly as many templates as Visio does for hardware like SANs, Cisco Routers, etc...

    But it does save the company a boatload of money and in many cases has little to no effect on my productivity.

    For what it's worth, we did get Office for the Sales group, they had too many issues with change tracking on contracts.

  23. Real Science by a SF Author on Scientifically Accurate Sci-Fi for High-Schoolers? · · Score: 1

    While I understand that it doesn't meet the exact definition of the question asked, I remember reading a couple of books by Asimov that covered Physics and especially Quantum Physics in a very readable style. Of course Google works for stuff that you've forgotten -- Go to http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_catalog ue.html and search for NONFICTION. It covers areas beyond just Physics!

  24. Slashdotted! on Open Source Network Management Beats IBM and HP · · Score: 1

    The OpenNMS homepage appears to be slashdotted. I've submitted it to Coral but no idea if/when it will get picked up.

  25. Re:The customer pays. Always. on Who Pays For Credit Card Breaches? · · Score: 1

    Err, no the customer rarely "pays". The merchant has always had to pay for any fradulent charges, in some cases the charges aren't fradulent but the customer can still dispute them and the merchant gets the shaft. The worst that can happen to the customer is that their card will be cancelled.