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  1. Re:Dell != PC on Puncturing the "PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs" Myth · · Score: 1

    I'd rather use OS X for my daily computing. So your scenario does not work for me, nor for many others.

  2. Re:God Forbid on Best Buy Acquires SpeakEasy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Agreed to an extent. If in fact books were the best money maker in the store, then why did best buy destroy that section? They cut book inventory by 75% of what it was originally. We had almost everything in stock. That Changed into "sorry we don't carry that item."

    They had managers and sales associates that knew they're departments and fired them ( at least at my store ) because they refused to push customers to buy those silly replay cards and other promotions. These employees were replaced by people with far less knowledge about the products they sold and frankly didn't really care about the customer.

    They changed the dress code to a far more stringent attire and just simply sucked the personality out of its employees.

    Sure Media Play may have been in rough shape, but the customers that shopped there always commented on our great and friendly customer service. Best Buy took care of that mighty quick.

  3. Re:God Forbid on Best Buy Acquires SpeakEasy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Best Buy did the same thing with The Musicland Group (Media Play, Sam Goodie etc..) Media Play was one of the best jobs i ever had. Everyone got along, corporate realized that every store location served different demographics and let the stores cater to those needs. Then Comes best buy with their one size fits all mantra. All of the sudden all employees have to sell so many "replay cards" a month or risk termination. They sucked to fun out of that place in less then a year. Next thing you know MusicLand is out of business. I hate Best Buy.

  4. Re:So I don't get it... on How Apple Orchestrated Attack On Researchers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I read that thread. And while I won't argue that those individuals are not having problems, I'd like to point out that many people including myself have had no problems with that or any recent updates, including 10.4.9. In fact, the wireless on my Macbook pro has improved very much since i got it a few months ago.

  5. Re:Ex-Apple? on Palm Responds to the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Really? Thousands? Somehow I think its less then that.

  6. Re:If this is true on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Really!! Funny I dont remember invading Iraq in the gulf war.

  7. look good to me on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 0

    i like it. Clean and simple.

  8. Re:Wind energy is great, but ... on Alternative Energy Confusion · · Score: 1

    The problem is (and they don't mention it in the article) is that all the power from these upstate NY windfarm is going to the black hole called New York City along with most of our tax dollars. Not one drop is ever going to these communities. We have the same problem in western new york with Niagara Falls. We don't see any of the power savings. In fact I believe we have some of the highest electric bills in the country.

  9. YAY! on Futurama to be Resurrected? · · Score: 1

    I would be the happiest girl in the world!!! I love the Simpsons Futurama and Family guy. But give me choice and i'll pick futurama every time.

  10. Re:Cisco on Solutions for Small Business VoIP? · · Score: 1

    While some of your comments make sense. Some dont. We run three pri's and get them at a very good price. did's are cheap as hell. Unity integrated just fine with Lotus Domino which is what i said in my original post. Deployment took as long due to manually unpackeging the phones and bringing then to the physical locations spread out over 8 facilities. I have never had a problem with TAC. they are very responsive. The more i think about it, maybe your post is flaimbait?

  11. Cisco on Solutions for Small Business VoIP? · · Score: 1

    It may be a closed Sysytem and piss off a few slashdotter, but Callmanager is a great system. Callmanager express is resonably priced. Its flexable, scaleable and overall works very well. We Just deployed aroung 500 phones using two call manager servers and a single unity messaging server integrated with our lotus domino system. Total time from equipment delivery to deployment was 4 months with 4 people.

  12. Zenworks Imaging on PC Cloning Solution? · · Score: 1

    Im not sure if the imaging server comes with zenworks for windows, but we use it with our novell servers and it works very well. It uses a tftp server to netboot a linux kernel. Very scriptable and flexable. Not sure about price though.

  13. Re:Hydrogen Wells? on Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power · · Score: 1

    Are we talking about perpetual motion? Yes! Yes we are.

  14. IPX? on Novell Networks and Linux? · · Score: 1

    I would have thought eveyone moved to IP by now. Incedentaly you can also connect via NFS.

  15. Re:Cost of OS on $100 Million Marketing Push For Vista · · Score: 1

    If your going to quote numbers, perhaps you should at least try to get them right. last time I checked OS X cost 129 for a single license. If you are a teacher or education staff, knock that down to 69.00.

  16. Re:Uh Oh. on Why FreeBSD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Its called Mac OS X. Sorry i don't want to be a troll but OS X just fit your criteria.

  17. Re:raid on Best Way to Back Up Photos and Video? · · Score: 1

    Ok then What happens when someone deletes all your files. RAID isnt gonna help you out there. A Back Will. RAID is for data availability. IT can be used as a mediuem for rotated backsups but by itself. it is not a backup.

  18. Re:Schools... on Making Small Steps Against Censorship · · Score: 1

    Umm yeah Netware isn't filtering your internet. Bess, Smartfilter, Websense or the like is. I work in a school and we use bess to filter our internet and for very good reasons. To keep the spyware, viri off the windows machines, to keep the elementary school kids from accidentaly getting to pRon sites, etc.. I dont really care what you kids do with your home computers, but at school you dont need to get to everything. Sorry.

  19. Common Problem. on Realistic Sysadmin Workload for a Company of 30? · · Score: 1

    Employer forget that there are people out there who already know how to be a sysadmin. Instead they throw whoever is around in the position. I'm sure your a good programer, but whats gonna happen when there is a problem that you can't fix? You should remind your boss that sysadmin is an actuall profession that many of us are very skilled in.

  20. Fine. on Illinois Game Law Passes · · Score: 1

    Minors Shouldn't be getting violent games. I know i wont let my kids buy them. I dont see a problem with this at all.

  21. Re:ridiculous on HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can · · Score: 1

    So Should i go buy a gun and shoot several people just to prove that i can do it? Sorry But just because you can do something doesn't mean you always should.

  22. LOL! on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    LOL!

  23. Re:Gates and his H-1b habit on Microsoft Misses Quarterly Revenue Projection · · Score: 1

    s it not mildly possible that, rather than Red-Blooded, uber-aggressive, and possibly even slightly overconfident Americans are not the source of this phenomena No.

  24. Re:Thanks on Hard Drive Cooling for 10 Cents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No. But thats the beauty of slashdot.

  25. Get one of these.. on Mid-Range Wireless Deployment for the Home User? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=61816&item=5768462963&rd=1 we use them to cover the out side of out buildings. coupled with the correct airport they should go a couple of miles line of sight.