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  1. Re:Oh really? on Confessions of a SysAdmin · · Score: 1

    When the appliance breaks take it to the store where it was purchased and it will be replaced if it's under warranty or you can buy a new one. Just like with every other appliance from dishwashers to microwaves to refrigerators.

  2. Re:Lawyer? on Comcast Disables VCR Scheduling In New Guide · · Score: 1

    The question is who owns the conduit and what they will charge to let a third party run material and if it will be sufficient volume to meet future demand. Then you're locked into whatever terms the conduit owners lay out or "Gee, wouldn't it be a shame if your fiber strands were accidentally cut?"

  3. Re: Your brains on Family Has Right of Privacy In Decapitation Photos · · Score: 1

    Yes. So long as it isn't unlawful to do so, such in the case of libel.

  4. Re:Woohoo! on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    Both MacBook Pros and iMacs both come with capable video card options. I, for one, might take the opportunity to upgrade my 3-year-old MacBook Pro (which runs Eve Online very well, thank you very much) to take advantage of the catalog of games coming to my platform of choice.

    Besides, Steam games won't be the only reason to buy a Mac, rather, it will be another nudge towards the platform for people who like the hardware, operating system, and community.

  5. Ignore it on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    Just ignore it.

  6. Re:Twitter needs scalability experts on How Twitter Is Moving To the Cassandra Database · · Score: 1

    I lost interest in Oracle when I had to develop for it and learned that it can't support index names of more than 32 characters in length. Oh, and needing a degree to figure out licensing costs doesn't help either; best hope for a non-crooked VAR to set you straight.

  7. The iPad ought to be enough for anybody. on Bill Gates Responds To Apple iPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    The iPad ought to be enough for anybody.

  8. Re:Major details wrong on The Worst Apple Products of All Time · · Score: 2, Informative

    The non-unibody MacBook Pros take quite a bit of finicky work to replace a hard drive. It's my understanding that the Unibody designs made it significantly easier. But, that said, as a sysadmin in a primarily Mac shop I've only had to replace a MacBook Pro hard drive once and pull the drive out of a wet polycarbonate MacBook once. Strangely it's as if the quality of Apple gear is very good.

    That said the Dell laptop that had its failed hard drive replaced twice in a month had a very accessible hard drive tray. Maybe they intended the hard drive to be replaced so frequently.

  9. Re:Apple has no clue how to do enterprise on Why Apple Doesn't Market Squarely To Businesses · · Score: 1

    After I finally figured out how to make my OpenLDAP server on Linux look and act like Apple's OpenDirectory (making Mac client access seamless with no custom ldap mappings required), I ditched the OS X server and will never go back.

    What, no link?

  10. Re:All about money. on Apple's Change of Heart On Flash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hulu sells advertising in their feeds, Apple does not.

    It's all about money indeed.

  11. Of course it's useless... on Microsoft COFEE Leaked · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I don't run windows.

  12. Why not use VPN to maintain the speed? on Anonymous Browsing On Android Phones Using Tor · · Score: 1

    As an iPhone user I prefer just using the built-in L2TP over IPSec. Surely the android phones can do the same thing.

  13. Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    What file do you think iTunes reads?

  14. Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    Have you been to http://opensource.apple.com/ ?

  15. Re:I Wonder What Would Happen If... on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    They don't have to - read the iTunes Library XML file.

  16. Re:With proprietary software you have no freedom on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    Use your manufacturer's syncing software to copy it to your device? Or is that not anti-Apple enough?

  17. Re:I Wonder What Would Happen If... on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    Apple doesn't like other hardware pretending to be their own hardware. Apple doesn't guarantee (nor should they) interoperability with products they don't certify (a certified product would be an iPod, for example).

  18. Re:An unsophisticated crime on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    "Your honour! That woman was CLEARLY inviting my client to sexual encounters! Just LOOK at the way she is dressed!" ... yeah, I don't think that defence works out so well in sane parts of the world.

  19. Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just read the iTunes Library XML file? Seems pretty straightforward to me!

  20. Re:Gender isn't sex. on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points to mod you up.

  21. Ask for a tour on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    Ask for a tour of the office if it's appropriate. Obviously if it's a place where security clearance is required they'll tell you to sod off. However if it's possible ask for a tour of the office or where you'll be working - ask where you'd be sitting.

  22. Re:Just ask yourself this: on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    They knew the risks when they took a job working for The Empire.

  23. Reasonable on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1

    It's reasonable. If you do poorly on the test take the feedback and improve yourself. Never stop learning.

  24. What managers need to know on Fire Your IT Boss · · Score: 1

    Managers need to know what their underlings are talking about. When I tell my boss that Rails' to_xml method only goes one association level deep the boss needs to know an association is (in rails), what to_xml means, and what impact this limitation has on consumers of the XML resource.

    Those that don't know and are unable to learn will be a hinderance to me when they promise someone a feature that will take me hours more to implement to extend the default to_xml method.

    The bad ones will insist on XML and avoid JSON, even though JSON is lighter weight and has no association-depth issues.

    In my experience the best managers stay out of my way and answer questions promptly and effectively. Technical ones seem to have difficulty keeping themselves from giving me their opinion on how best to code something.

  25. Should be: Effect of Opera on Firefox on Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers · · Score: 4, Funny

    What will Firefox copy next? (what? troll?)