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  1. Please everyone test a restore on Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage? · · Score: 1

    Pick a random picture or a video and test that you can recover it. You will be amazed how few people do this. I have seen people backing up "pictures" only to find that the photo album software was storing them in c:\Windows\App.... .Regardless of media or service you use, please, please, please test it every once in a while. April fool's day task?

  2. Taleb's explanation of the Narrative Fallacy on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Taleb "Narrative fallacy: creating a story post-hoc so that an event will seem to have an identifiable cause."

  3. Eddie Izzard's view on James Bond Gadgets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course there is the Eddie Izzard sketch brilliantly animated without the help of Daniel Craig.

  4. Re:First Godwin! on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    Of course you need to get a proper fashion designer involved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss_AG#Involvement_in_World_War_II

  5. 1979 Apple Pascal Syntax Poster on Computer Art For a CS Dept Office? · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.pascal-central.com/pascal-syntax.html or a picture of it here: http://pascal-central.com/images/pascalflow.jpg You need to fix it firmly to the wall since it carries some strong type.

  6. Hag H05 5650 on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    I bought a chair for home two years ago. Go to a specialist shop and they will do an assessment and I found by far the best ones are the ones that are "active", you keep moving. This is important since when I am working from home I tend to sit still, in the office I am up and about a lot. Here is the shop I went to and they have a large selection which I think you should be able to source worldwide. http://www.backinaction.co.uk/h05 I went for the H05 5650 which is in my top 2 techie buys. After my Antec case (BTW another excellent Father's Day Present). HTH.

  7. Re:What is it with Ubuntu on Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu Netbook Remix · · Score: 1

    Please keep this quiet. Who want's to be Mainstream? It's where all the hassle is.

  8. Re:Agreed on finding a drive on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Here is the PR on Sun Buys MySQL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would be interesting to see how this might stress their relationship with Oracle. So are we heading back to the days of a vertically integrated "stack"? I doubt it. More likely they will jettison the hardware business and concentrate on software.

  10. errr US? on Unmanned Aircraft Clustered via Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Since when has Essex been in the US? Here is the guy doing the research and here is where he is located. Spot the blue stuff between the East coast of the US and Colchester? Not sure Google has mapped out Europe yet mind you ;-) O.

  11. Re:Making sure you have multiple suppliers is smar on Dell Founder Dropped $100M Onto Red Hat · · Score: 1

    But the interesting point in this debate is who really needs who? IBM Pcs have gone to Lomovo, HP are all over the place so Dell is really the only game in town for the non-mission critical end. Microsoft has to work with Dell and I dare say Dell is not overly happy with the delays to Longhorn which must be impacting the timing of the next upgrade cycle. And all of Dell's own mission critical stuff is already running Linux.

  12. Re:Anyone have more info on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 0

    I think it is so they can work out how human bodies decompose when left outside. So the forensic guys can work out when they were dumped and so forth.

  13. Re:The power of the US on Dell Teams Up With SUSE · · Score: 1

    Hasn't stopped Dell working with the oddball German software company SAP. Find it here.

  14. Re:Bad news for Red Hat... on Dell Teams Up With SUSE · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the article mention that it is Servers? Still bad news for RH but desktop usability debate is for another announcement.

  15. Re:As an IBM On Demand consultant on HP Kills Off Utility Data Center · · Score: 1

    This discussion has disintegrated into HP bashing and has not at all commented on whether there is business need for a utility/on-demand/adaptive architecture. What's really driving it? Taking cost out (shared resources) or business agility, virtualisation and globalisation. Where would you place bets on this and what are the implications. And one of the players I think are creeping up on the quiet are Cisco. Huge market share. IOS creeping ever up the "stack" and obviously distributed, secure, service-oriented. Quite what the difference is between a blade server and a Cisco chasis with "cards in it" has yet to be explained to me. Oh and IOS is not open-source. O.

  16. Re:I beg to differ on Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard? · · Score: 1

    But at least the argument to move away from Office becomes stronger. At least using OO you will be able to read email attachments sent to you from external organisations who use MS Office.

  17. Re:skewed stats -- this sucks -- they all do on Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend · · Score: 1

    but we all know that 27.6% of statistics are made up on the spot.

  18. Re:but no AMD? on Is Dell Just Testing the Market? · · Score: 1

    The reason is that the Dell business model is geared up to leverage Intel's R&D. Dell invest about 1.5% of revenues in R&D and HP about 5% and IBM's 5.5% and claim they are the only company who's core business is still PCs (and they make money from them). So their model is that by developing a deep relationship with Intel they gain value from the R&D investment that Intel can amortise over the whole Intel market.

  19. Coming to a laptop near you on First Dual-emission OLED Display in a Phone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's an informative article from The Economist which explains that we should soon be able to mould screens and use them in broad daylight.

  20. Re:Kilogram? on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 1

    And interestingly thre are several areas associated with the US that are indeed measured using the metric system

    • Auto engine capacity is in litres
    • Camera film is in millimetres
    • Gun calibre is in millimetres
    • Drugs are measured in milligrams

    Oh and of course hamburgers in quarter-pounds