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  1. Re:In my department... on Governmental Servers Wiped? Never! · · Score: 1

    Sounds like my agency. We let drives with public knowledge out with just a DoD spec wiping. confidential and classifed drives are only to be desposed of in an incenorator. My state has a good number of broad laws covering how the data is to be handled, and its possible jail time if you screw up

  2. Re:OK to be fair... on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 1

    Well Outlook 2003 implemented Evo's virtual folders. the term is "Search Folders" in Outlook. and believe it or not, they don't suck with the standard issued Microsoft voracity.

  3. Re:VoIP not a small business solution on VOIP, The Traditional Telephony Killer? · · Score: 1

    Its all in the kind of VoIP system you have. In a residential system (ie Vonage), you transmit your calls over the Internet to a remote PBX. As with this type, you have no control over the call as it crosses the Internet. Latency and packet loss are two factors that go into voice quality. those are normally controlled with things like Quality of Service (QoS) tags, how ever I'd be surprised if your ISP respected them. In a corporate system, the PBX is housed somewhere in the corporate network. the phones on the desks are IP to the PBX and the pbx has your traditional phone lines. Inside the corporate network, the network admins can run QoS edge to core to guarantee voice gets priority. If the network cant handle the calls in this case, the company can find ways of deal with it. by taking our shop VoIP we saw savings in a few areas, and we got *much* better call quality 1) line consolidation. Since we already have a single IP network, and intra campus calls are IP only, we dropping 367 Centrex lines and replaced them with 4 PRI ISDN voice circuits, giving us 92 bi-directional lines. We also gain increased call capacity since the lines are connected to numbers on the fly and not dedicated. 2) maintainance cost. we had an 3rd party do damn near everything to our phone system. We bought a Turn Key (or just key) system years ago and they came in for every change. 65 bucks a pop adds up over the course of year. Now I manage our phone system, and now that its implemented, its pretty much hands off. 3) cabling. now instead of pulling two cables (once voice and one data) we just have one cat5 drop pulled. we do power over ethernet from the switches and that provides simple, manageable power to the phones. Once again, those small pops keep adding up. 4) growth. our old key system was at its limit, and would have cost a nice chunk of change. now we just add capacity as needed. more phone lines, just get another trunk line. more phones, get another switch. you get the idea so my moving to voice we got better call clarity, more call capacity, lower phone bills, and a ROI in under 5 years. It was a win win for us

  4. Re:Balance on FBI Wants To Limit Document Searches · · Score: 1

    FIOA makes some provions for secuirty and the like. The problem with FIOA isnt what it covers, but the vaguess on how it should be intrested. Its not just the FBI that has issues implementing FIOA, but many other Federal and state agencies.

  5. Research? on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think i can hack his job... the guy draws his research from the way his kid plays with toys truck.... friggen great.

  6. We're Microsoft on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    We'll just tell you what features you need and want. Anthing else is just bloat

  7. Re:really not a bad idea if you think about it on Building a Linux XBOX Cluster · · Score: 1

    tis a shame, woulda been cool though. though the MythTV box aint a bad idea

  8. Re:Just like to point out... on Building a Linux XBOX Cluster · · Score: 1
    whatever doing something because its just fun?

    also, some budgets are not exactly large. so stuff like this might help. once again referring to my previous example of a highschool. Would it be nice to drop 100K on a cluster to teach com sci students with? yes, practical, probably not.

  9. really not a bad idea if you think about it on Building a Linux XBOX Cluster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you think about it, its a way to build a very large scaled out cluster using dirt cheap commody hardware. Where could something liek this be used? try your local high school or vocational school. Wanna build a cluster to give hands on experiance to the students? 20 cluster nodes for under 3 grand

  10. Re:Dumb question... on Novell Pulls Out Their Ace Against SCO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    not if you got a war of attrition. with sco, they just will keep launching attacks, and draining their captial. makes it real hard to fight a war with out ammo

  11. spoken like a true *nix fan on The men behind ettercap-NG · · Score: 5, Funny
    Because our mailboxes were full of users' requests for Windows porting and our antispam filter started to get confused.

    Thats one way to deal with windows people

  12. Re:Pretty Pointless... on Cisco Source Code Up For Sale: Only $24,000 · · Score: 1

    I hate to to ell you but PIXen are x86 based, just do a show version on one and read the hardware line. So its not to far of a strech to use this to roll your own code for other nefarious activities.

  13. Re:scarry on ATI Updates Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking out my ass, but from the boxes i've worked with. I still remember dealing with a 9700 when they were new, and watching that box go for distance.

  14. scarry on ATI Updates Linux Drivers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wouldnt touch an ati card with a 10 foot pole, the only thing less scarry then the linux drivers are their windows drivers, and they are not that much better.

  15. Re:PLEASE NOTE on Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients · · Score: 1

    Appearlently, people dont pay too much attention tothe native cleint. Looking at my 6.0.0.1643 native cleint i seem something odd. No adds. Semms to me that Yahoo just tries to tuse the cleitn as a hook to other services. Now given how unannoying the client is, its probably a protocol update as stated.

  16. Re:there's a lot of nuclear ooopsie stories of lat on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 1

    I rebmer going to middle and school and being extreamly close to a powerplant, Limerick to be exact. We were close enough to Limerick, that on the first moday of very month at 1500, class would be interrupted for thetesting of the siren at the plant. also, you never heard anything about evac plans or anything. We knew thm in elemntry school, but we were about 20 miles from limeric. It was becasueof the school dropping the ball, it was because we were well with in the "no time to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye" radius. alot of people that close always had the same eerie calmness about it. "if it goes, we would never know, because we would go with it just as quick"

  17. Re:too bad they stopped building them... on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One fact I picked up over the years is since TMI, no one's ever applied for a new permit from the NRC

  18. Re:See any serious problems with this story? on Five Free Calculus Textbooks · · Score: 1

    talk about self abuse. I hate to see their idea of fun

  19. Re:RSS Readers on RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    Thanks, i ended up using this one since i live out of my exchange mailbox here at work. to set out look to open your news folder just go to tools, options, others, and the advanced button under email

  20. RSS Readers on RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any recomendations for a good RSS reader for Win32

  21. Re:Radio Shack. on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    not just the customers were getting pissed, the employee's ger gettig put between a rock and a hard place

  22. Re:Car Dealerships... on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    its all over. try going to a Radio Shack. They tell the customer that its for their recipt, yet its all goes towrd the mailing list and research. what makes it worse they {the company] whats the employee to collect as many addies as possible, or they start givingyou shit. if if you dont give two shits about privacy, its still a hassle to give this out all the time

  23. Re:great on Congressional Committee Approves Database Bill · · Score: 1

    but unfirtuanly it is starting to make its way through the process.

  24. Re:great on Congressional Committee Approves Database Bill · · Score: 1

    Bend Over, Here It Comes Again

  25. Re:SCO's REAL plan... cry wolf on United Linux Dead · · Score: 1

    the only problem i can see with this strategy is the c word, "captial". If we make the assumtion that all these court battles is going to deplete the cash piles. so what are there options? wait a while ot build captial? sell off some of there assests? sell more "licences?" i think the true sco battle plan is either sue the shit put people becuase they are stuck with products that just dont matter anymore (comeone SCO unix ware or Linux/*BSD, you tell me?). or plan be, make such a spectical, get the stock prices up, and dump their stock fater than enron stocks.