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  1. Re:Maybe it is not about Oracle on Can Sun Make MySQL Pay? · · Score: 1

    And they still don't have anything to compete with DB2.

  2. Re:Why would they hire an IT manager? on How Do I Become an IT/IS Manager? · · Score: 1

    Never assume they thought of internal people when thinking of hiring management types.

  3. Re:Increased probability of HDD failure on Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? · · Score: 1

    Proof? I always hear that shutting down at night is 'stressful' for the hardware but no one ever provides proof. It is always just presented as one of those "Duh, everyone knows that."

  4. Re:Software? on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 1

    I've heard of this before somewhere.

  5. Re:Unions - are they needed? on A Proposal For Unionizing Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, I can see where you would need a Union. That level of laziness needs to have another entity protecting it's job.

  6. Re:Leave it Forbes... on What Bugs Apple Fans About Apple · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I believe Leopard has been the fastest selling OS X released so far. How much bigger do you think they thought it was going to be?

  7. Re:So... on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    Was this guy born with carbon fiber leg replacements that have better mechanical efficiency then human feet?

  8. Re:It would make MySQL easier to deploy... on Sun Buys MySQL · · Score: 1

    Buy a MySQL license, or EnterpriseDB. Open Source isn't always free of cost or free of support. The EnterpriseDB people will also support vanilla PostgreSQL. AFAIK, those options are cheaper then MSSQL and you still end up with supported databases.

  9. Re:Difference between VST(O|A) and VBA? on VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon · · Score: 1

    Well, you get to rewrite all your macros if/when you upgrade.

  10. Mac on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    Around the SE, possibly a Plus, but if it was a Plus it was from where my Dad worked. We owned a SE though. I can remember Dark Castle, Crystal Quest, Might and Magic, SimCity, SimEarth. Not all of those were in '86 but others were.

  11. Re:Patriotic??? on OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students · · Score: 1

    Nationalism and Patriotism need to die in a fire. The world would be a much better place without them.

  12. Re:Negotiation ploy on Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools · · Score: 1

    MS wouldn't be buying retail. There really isn't any reason to believe this isn't just negotiations.

  13. Re:SP1 includes stability fixes for bios hacks! on Vista SP1 Guides for IT Professionals Released · · Score: 1

    I wonder if these will show up in XP SP3 as well.

  14. Re:Worrisome? on PI License May Soon Be Required for Computer Forensics · · Score: 1

    a system administrator could be prosecuted for reading the log files for login information, or tracing back history files to see what led to critical system files being corrupted.
    Reading is a wonderful thing.
    From the Article:

    digital forensic evidence gathered for use in a court in that state must be collected by a person with a PI license or through a PI licensed agency.

    Lets also not forget that reading logs at your place of business is not forensics work (as much as you might want to think of yourself as a CSI), it's your job. If your company was electronically broken into, even now the companies sys admin isn't going to be the one examining the logs for the court record. They would be handed over to a forensics company, and now that company would have to be licensed in South Carolina if that is where the litigation is taking place.
  15. Re:Not Quite Universal on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Mac Ports.

  16. Re:I changed my mind about canada on What Did You Change Your Mind About in 2007? · · Score: 1

    Actually global warming would make Canada's winters colder where they would get the coldest (Alberta, Sask, Manitoba) as often as it made them milder.

    Canada is no more tech friendly/unfriendly then the US as it's laws are more often then not simply modeled after laws in the US.

    I've lived in several places in Canada, been to several places in the States and currently live in the US. Guess what, the people are all the same. Daily life is no different. If you're moving to Canada just because it's some wonderful happy place to get away from the evil US, well, have fun wasting your money. You might as well move across the street from where you are now as it would be essentially solve the problem in the same way.

  17. Re:social pressure on Communities of Mutants Form as DNA Testing Grows · · Score: 1

    Left-handedness is evil. It's a sign of the devil.

  18. Re:WTF? on Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yvan eht nioj

  19. Re:The "Because I Can" factor is powerful on IBM's Five Predictions for the Future · · Score: 1

    Big dogs, even very big dogs, are often some of the sweetest, kindest and gentlest animals you can own. Perhaps you should try to not be a dick instead of implying things about others.

  20. Re:How many times? on Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the skilled IT staff also know enough to choose the proper platform? Security is a process not a product, what things run on is part of the process.

    I don't see the Military switching to OS X for everything then wiping their hands and saying "we're done, it's secure now."

  21. Fully interoperate with the AD on Microsoft Agrees to Release Work Group Protocols · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are you sure about that? Workgroup is often designated as software separate from their Enterprise or Domain integrated stuff. Are you sure that releasing their workgroup protocols includes Active Directory access?

  22. Re:My Idea on Bees Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 1

    I'm going to patent you idea as a 'Load Balanced Web Cluster.' I'll make millions off your original idea.

    MUHAHHAHAHAHA!

  23. Re:No firewalls? on The Setup Behind Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    What you're describing is a NAT device (not a firewall) with SPI (a firewalling function), not a pure NAT device. A NAT device on its own simply translates. Anything coming from the private side goes out. You can have a 1 to 1 NAT device where all traffic that comes into the NAT device from the public end is passed without inspection to the inside. This is often done on one to many or PAT devices by defining a DMZ host. Otherwise what the NAT device does if a request comes in to a IP/port that does not have an active session is simply drop it. This is just the same as making a port 80 request to a system not running a Web Server or other service on that port. You don't call that firewalling now do you?

    NAT is not a firewalling technique. NAT devices may however run software that also allows them to be firewalls.

  24. Re:No firewalls? on The Setup Behind Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    NAT != Firewall and vice versa. A firewall does not have to use NAT and a NAT device is not necessarily a firewall.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall

  25. Obvious on Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter · · Score: 1