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  1. Re:As an Outlook/Exchange fanboy.. on Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino · · Score: 1

    Ahh, agreed, sending a calendar invite to someone who Calendar already shows them busy is pretty rude unless you make it clear your including them to keep them apprised or in hopes they can make it.

  2. Re:As an Outlook/Exchange fanboy.. on Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino · · Score: 1

    Checking with everyone wouldn't work in my previous organizations (my current one is small business) depending on meeting request. If the meeting is more then 5 people, trying to check with 5 people, get their schedules, cross check them is very time consuming. However, fix to all of this is keeping your calendar up to date with your schedule. At my old org, everyone had Blackberries with BES and there was no excuse for not having all your stuff on your calendar.

    I don't find it poor office etiquette to send out meeting requests. They are not demands or challenges to your manhood, they are simply virtual "hey, meeting at this time, good with you?" If you challenged me over it, I'd chalk you up to be being over sensitive person who gets angry at internet meeting requests and continue to throw out requests.

    Of course again, keep your Outlook/Notes/Groupwise Calendar up to date and you won't have many problems.

  3. Re:As an Outlook/Exchange fanboy.. on Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino · · Score: 1

    Email request to see if you were available was sent when meeting REQUEST was blasted out by outlook. I'm sorry your poor feeling were hurt but some of us don't have time to check with everyone esp if it's a big meeting. It's just more efficient to see if everyone is available by throwing that request out there and seeing who takes it and who rejects it.

  4. Re:Great, needed this as of last week.. on VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why most people are wary running 64 bit is beyond me. Only issue I have is lack of 16 bit support for really old DOS stuff which doesn't bother me. NVidia has drivers for 64 bit Vista/XP, most motherboards support it and most decent hardware has had drivers.

    While this falls under cool category, if your running any serious virtualization, your going to want 64 bit Host OS with lots and lots of RAM and Virtualization Extensions on the processor. Doing it any other way is going to give average performance at best.

  5. Re:Doesn't have a built in update mechanism? on Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch · · Score: 1

    A 200 Man company should be able to spring for WSUS server. That would make patching really easy to accomplish. POP Mail on Outlook is disaster. Trying to keep 65 PSTs backed up is pretty difficult.

  6. Re:DNSSEC on The Backstory of the Kaminsky Bug · · Score: 1

    Of course if you can implement it, go for it but like anything with security, it adds additional level of complexity to entire system which may or may not be worth it. I'm not going to be signing any of my domains since they are just personal domains but I hope banks and such will.

  7. Re:What a tool... on Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict · · Score: 1

    define "distress". If I tell a bunch of teenagers they are horribly dressed and Emo's suck, is that distressed? Any time you encourage lawmakers to pass laws that deal with emotional state of someone, you are approaching dangerous territory.

  8. Re:SUSE laptops on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 1

    What technical reasons for AMD? Everything I read and experience in RL has Intel thumping AMD just about any shootout except price and most companies are going to haggle over a few hundred dollars in most cases. If I was a middle manager and you came in talking about AMD because of some monopoly reason, I would have not signed the paper work.

  9. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    Drug Dealing is illegal under Maryland law. Drug Dealers were not "tricked" into anything they wouldn't have normally done illegally. I would have only disagreed with their tactics if drug dealing was legal in Prince George's County and Charles County tricked the dealers into believing they were Prince George County when they weren't.

    In article case, the hacker knew he had committed the crime in question and entered United States willingly.

  10. Re:The real key is AJAX on Microsoft's Office Web Will Do iPhone, Linux, Mac · · Score: 1

    For the search to be fast you need to be running Windows Desktop Search Application. For most people that isn't a problem but I've seen some IT departments refuse to install it. It even does Exchange searching client side (assuming your in Cached Exchange mode)

  11. Re:Why isn't the insecurity of Windows mentioned? on 40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs · · Score: 1

    No one gets anything correct the first time and if Linux got majority of the home users, I would see people attacking it as well. Right now it's not worth it but when it does, we will see the same problem.

    Real problem is fact that ISPs will let these zombies sit on their networks and not do a thing. If ISPs started cutting off zombie machines then this problem would be fixed. It's pretty easy to see a zombie machine at work, 50 outbound connections to 45 different SMTP server, yea, it's a zombie or at least teenager on other side with no morals.

  12. Re:Voter registration on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    In US, we don't have the right to vote contrary to some US citizens inability to read their own Constitution. It's been parroted enough but if some states said only people who owned land, it would be completely legal (Poll tax amendment might bugger it up). Remember, your not voting for president, your voting for state to appoint people to vote for president. Personally, I think a poll tax is excellent idea that got bad rap because southern states had introduce racism into the mix.

  13. Re:WTF?! on Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia · · Score: 1

    [quote]Americans, what's the best way forward to make my voice heard?![/quote]

    You turned them in a couple of years ago. We can't help you that much either though. just having this discussion means black helicopters are going to come get me since Bush got to listen in since it's international conversation.

  14. Re:Still not worth it on Sprint's Xohm WiMax Network Debuts In Baltimore, Works Well · · Score: 2, Informative

    DSL and Cable work by providing a continuing stream of packets. Cell phone networks can't offer that though so there is times where they may delay delivery for 200MS or so while tower is busy doing something else before delivering all your data to you in on massive chunk. Mbit/s isn't only measure of network connection.

  15. Re:Cancel or allow what?! on Windows 7 To Dial Down UAC · · Score: 1

    My question is why IPConfig /release is even protected. UAC is to prevent damage to computer and releasing your IP isn't going to cause damage to your computer. It might inconvenience you but it's not going to damage anything.

    Agreed though, it's lack of granularity is a pain in the ass. I wish there was setting that said, only bother me when I'm doing something that will cause massive damage like overwrite system files, not share out a folder or install a certificate in IE7.

  16. Re:Totally new - the Wizard! on Blizzcon Begins, Diablo 3 Wizard Class Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Doesn't change the fact they could have classes and still present the option to have one class that could pick from any tree. Gamers are much more choice oriented these days and open ended is always good.

  17. Re:Fascism on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: -1

    While Bush started the stupid list, Maryland state Government is Democratic to core and borders socialism which sounds like a certain Democrat I know running for President.

  18. Re:Perjury is a crime that most people don't serio on Spammer Perjury is Worth Prosecuting · · Score: 1

    Depends, at my local area, Cops in uniform are allowed to carry in Courthouses even if they are giving testimony.

  19. Re:Firefox isn't helping on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    With today certs, you can get a cert for 20 dollars and no verification except your email address is listed on Whois. Your website will show up with green padlock in Firefox and IE. This doesn't really help anything as you can't expect the user to analyze the cert and make sure name matches up with what they expect.

  20. Re:Classes, Races & Professions on Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    WAR PvP is largely consensual unless your on the open server. WAR PvP system has been one of better ones to date in fantasy setting.

  21. Re:Console controllers for long-term playing? on Future Sony MMOs Will Be On Consoles · · Score: 1

    FPSes on Consoles are quite different then on console. Most FPS on consoles are at ranges that would have already been decided and done for on the PC. Most FPSes on Consoles feel like knife fights with guns.

  22. Re:a bunch of questions on C# In-Depth · · Score: 1

    Probably because PHP has alot of hidden costs despite being free. Decent IDE cost money, database is uses (MySQL) doesn't scale as easily in the sense any monkey can setup MSSQL cluster. While there is Zend, there isn't one company to turn to and ask "Why isn't this working?". With ASPX, you can ask Microsoft and they can fix it regardless if it's OS, Web server or how language interacts with Web Server.

    Also, C# is used to build alot of desktop apps along with web apps and PHP is strictly web only.

  23. Re:not vetted/tried and true on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    News flash: Exchange 2007 has unlimited sizes for Databases now theoretically, practically around 300GB they start to get wierd, before that, everything is fine. Outlook 2003 SP2 does Unicode PSTs which is 18GB of email. Exchange Server itself is 64bit and it's pretty broken down with servers having roles. Exchange 2007 has stopped being end all be all and now it's job is to do email/calendaring. While I'm MS user mainly because I've yet to find a situation where I can pitch Linux system without sounding like a fanboi. While Exchange has bad rap, Exchange 2007 is pretty nice and only getting better by day.

  24. Re:That sucks D: on As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right, those Iraqis are doing a horrible job at killing American Soldiers using small arms and improved explosives.....

  25. Re:Better approach on Can I Be Fired For Refusing To File a Patent? · · Score: 1

    However, many companies have started asking "Is he eligible for rehire?" If you get the answer of "no", you know something went wrong. Not always termination but he walked out on company, they were glad to be rid of him, something. I always ask in interviews of answer is no, why the answer is no.