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  1. Skip the entertaining, go to the useful on Ask Slashdot: How To Give IT Presentations That Aren't Boring? · · Score: 1

    Developers: how can they optimize network usage in the product(s)? what beneficial effect does that have on your clients?
    QA: How do you look for appropriate traffic? assure your product wont adversely affect a clients network?
    PM: How should you work with your clients on network issues? what signs should you look for to see the product is helping or hurting client infrastructure?

  2. The entire sci-fi market has been shrinking on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 2

    The public appetite for space travel, battles, and true sci-fi (as opposed to War of the Worlds: LA) has been shrinking for years. It's not just syfy, but every true space opera franchise has been slowly dying for the past decade or so, to be replaced by garbage like the "V" reboot. Even is syfy transitioned to a premium model, they may not get enough subscribers without the ghost chasers and such (I won't walk about wrestling).

  3. Financial and Insurance Services on Finding Student IT Security Placements in the Industry? · · Score: 5, Informative

    These companies are both expanding their security apparatus and also are both industries known to be in love with the college intern concept. I interviewed for several security positions at insurance firms (specifically car insurance) who were hiring something like 5 or 6 security architects in one shot. Try to apply to intern programs there or at big Financial.

  4. NOC Says: on Akamai Having Problems? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Akamai's NOC says service restored approx 1400GMT. Earlier NOC quotes include: It is a system-wide problem that "looks like it may be a DOS attack".

  5. Surviving Slashdotting through Freecache on Freecache · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id= 8764

    He was apparently /.'d... and hes apologizing for the load.

  6. Again an example... on Videogame Character Threatens National Security? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of a very knee-jerk reaction to security here in the US... What I dont get is how Grade B (uncorroborated, domestic, single-informant) information winds up at the top of the threat matrix, unless someone was trying to play a joke?

  7. I think... on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you'll just wind up irreperably harming your child, as when they get to school and interact with kids, they'll be mercilessly made fun of. hey, if you want to be father to the next dylan kleybold, thats up to you, but do it in an isolated area where you will be the only casualty.

  8. VI or Emacs? on Search Engines Set To Vie For China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    China is the main developing technology market now... your main competition problems in the US,EUR, etc. are that you will be dominated by market sway and sentiment in an existing user base. The choice between Yahoo and Google in china may well be like the choice 'VI or Emacs' that some people here went through years ago...

  9. Whats the point? on Acer Plans A 16 lb. Notebook · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A notebook is really meant for portability... I understand that this way you can cart a full desktop-capable machine short distances, but its a niche solution for people who want to lug things from their office to the conference room and back. Anyone who seriously needs portability (yours truly, for example) will sacrifice some performance... the target notebook market is still businesses and they dont need a p4EE

  10. Re:No kidding... on SCO Identifies EV1Servers as Linux Licensee · · Score: 1

    You arent the first to note the Section 4 issue. Fyodor gave SCO the finger over this a couple days ago.

  11. Submitter didnt RTFA on MS and Sendmail work together on Spam Solution · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft is one of several companies who are also working to combat spam with a "caller ID" system. Yahoo's DomainKeys is another one.
    MS is a footnote. Aside from headline, the article mentions nothing about an 'alliance' or even Sendmail and MS working together.

  12. Firebird Has a lot of corporate takeup, already on Firebird Relational Database 1.5 Final Out · · Score: 1

    A number of ACCT and Manufacturing packages have already taken up Firebird as a backend. It's being looked seriously as a replacement for Pervasive and some of the other low end/low cost RDBMSs.

  13. Same thing Happens in NYC... on Keyless Entries Fail In Las Vegas On Friday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    anywhere about 20-25 degrees declination from the empire State Building. One of my favorite bars there (gingerman, is anyone is familiar) jokes that it is a 'keys required zone for safety'...

  14. OK so thats... on Half-Life 2 Targeted for Summer Release · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... what, two more GPU revisions? This wont tax anything by the time it comes out!

  15. Re:Am I the only one? on More MyDoom Gloom · · Score: 1

    This is a reference to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, where this phrase is used in a number of places...

    Ford:'The best cooks and The best drinksmixers, and they dont give a wet slap about anything else...'

  16. Considering the Patent Content on All Encompassing Patents · · Score: 5, Interesting

    " For example, claim 92 of the '560 Patent covers the playing of a game over a communication network, such as the Internet, where multiple instances of a game are transmitted over the Internet between multiple players and a gaming website and some of these instances may overlap in time. Also, users' rankings may be transmitted from the gaming website to the users, where the rankings are indicative of the users' proficiency in playing the game for which the users' ranks are being displayed, and where the rankings are updated. "

    If Im reading this right, they should be suing WoTC, Blizzard, and, well, everybody... Problem is this guy isnt dumb enough to go after somebody who can fight back... Wonder what the chances of getting the EFF or someone similair involved is...

  17. The author has a point... as far as it goes on Embedded Linux Tools Market a Myth? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article is IMHO unnecessarily inflammatory, but the author highlights a problem not only for the embedded linux market but for the entire linux market. The lack of support for what are admittedly GOOD products is gnawing, and makes the enterprise usefulness of some of them fairly limited. You and I might be able to figure stuff out on our own, but Joe CEO wants everything he uses to be backed 24/7/365 by the company making it. And you know what? Hes right.

  18. In Related News on SCO Expands Licensing Money Chase Worldwide · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From Groklaw : SCO has posted a job opening, for an "Inside Sales Manager", as of January 9th. Here is the job description, in case you are interested: "The inside sales manager will be responsible to implement a successful campaign of generating daily revenue from selling IP licensing in the North American market. Initially, the sales manager will also be responsible for generating the revenue as a stand-alone sales entity with the goal to grow the department revenue to justify additional sales resources. All sales will be generated from outbound phone calls and incoming phone call leads based upon the SCO Group's IP campaign." Applicants should have the ability to "communicate the offerings of the SCO Groups [sic] IP license strategies in a manner that is successful in generating revenues." Daily. Of course, you have to live in Utah.

  19. Sadly Enough on Microsoft Extends Win98/SE Support · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Corporate usage of this OS is still widespread, mainly due to inertia more than anything else. Microsoft is desperately trying to get companies to switch, but getting Officer Level peeps to understand the inherent benefits is proving to be... difficult...

  20. Path Disclosure Error in Site due to /.ing on Explore Mars with Maestro · · Score: 1

    NO im not kidding, got this trying to dl the software:
    Site Error
    An error was encountered while publishing this resource.

    IOError

    Sorry, a site error occurred.

    Traceback (innermost last):

    Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 163, in publish_module_standard
    Module Products.PlacelessTranslationService.PatchStringIO , line 44, in new_publish
    Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 127, in publish
    Module Zope.App.startup, line 205, in zpublisher_exception_hook
    Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 100, in publish
    Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply
    Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 40, in call_object
    Module Products.CMFCore.PortalContent, line 116, in __call__
    Module Shared.DC.Scripts.Bindings, line 252, in __call__
    Module Shared.DC.Scripts.Bindings, line 283, in _bindAndExec
    Module Products.CMFCore.FSPageTemplate, line 155, in _exec
    Module Products.CMFCore.FSObject, line 115, in _updateFromFS
    Module Products.CMFCore.FSPageTemplate, line 84, in _readFile
    IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/usr/local/Zope-2.7-head/lib/python/Products/CMFP lone/skins/plone_content/document_view.pt' (Also, an error occurred while attempting to render the standard error message.)

  21. The major problem I see... on Pluto: Linux-based Do-everything System · · Score: 1

    SPOF. Single Point Of Failure. Its a neat idea, but i dont see enough technological safegaurds in place (read: redundancy) to prevent you from suddenly losing your security, home monitor, and worst of all your PVR all in one shot...

  22. Here We are... on Explore Mars with Maestro · · Score: 1

    Major Scientific Post regarding Mars, and half the comments are arguing as to whether a link is or is not goatse. WTF happened to slashdot???

  23. Who here remembers... on High-Tech Firms Worry About Taiwan-China Tensions · · Score: 4, Informative

    the memory shortages several years back when the taiwanese warehouses and manufacturers we blown away by a typhoon?

  24. IT500 coming 1Q04... on Low Powered Mini-Server for the Masses · · Score: 1

    to have dual 60GBs and built-in CSU/DSU
    Dont ask me. I just forward de info.

  25. Steg is fairly useful, but it is crackable on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use steg sometimes to pass messages i dont want out in plaintext or overtly encrypted, but it has to be passed in such a way that it isnt apparent that a message is there (i.e. email to brother 'See these pics of grandma!'). It is not a foolproof method, but its very useful when you realize you cant trust the encryption itself to hide the message.