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  1. Cleveland has a growing technology sector. It's highly affordable, we have awesome restaurants and breweries and fantastic cultural sights (art museum, PlayhouseSquare, etc.).

  2. Re: Of two minds on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Correct. The IDE runs only on WinXP. 7, 8, 10, no go.

  3. 25+ years on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 2

    I was working in a system in 2009 which had code commits as far back as 1983.

  4. Re: US: Welcome to the present on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 2

    We have neither the money nor the vacation time to go anywhere.

  5. SimCity on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I learned anything from SimCity it was to never let your reactor stay online beyond its intended life - unless you have disasters turned off, of course.

  6. Source Code License on In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This brings up a question. My organization replaced our old ERP and CRM-like system which was bought 20 years ago with the source code and heavily customized. The administration (through thir consultants-ugh) declined to buy the source code licenses for the new applications because "modern organizations don't buy source code licenses anymore." Now, predictably, people are upset because we cannot tailor the apps to our business rules. My question is whether the statement of the consultant is crap or not: do companies nor buy the source code license and solely rely on vendors to make changes via upgrades or custom programming?

  7. Lockheed Martin on Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looking at the NARA article, as soon as I saw that some big IT contract was given to Lockheed Martin I saw all I needed to know about this initiative.

  8. Tweaking and submitting on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 2

    Tweaking and submitting would be removing the plagiarism, which would still be caught on the instructor side. I fail to see the conflict here.

  9. All well and good until... on Replacing Traditional Storage, Databases With In-Memory Analytics · · Score: 1

    This is all well-and-good until someone accidentally knocks out the power. Then all of that stuff needs recomputed if it's not stored to disk.

  10. At least you have one on An Illustrated Version Control Timeline · · Score: 1

    Our legacy system was a "hey only one person can write files to this directory but you can copy the files to this directory for developmenstuction" setup. When I mentioned source control I was looked at like I was the new kid telling them what to do because they had no problems with their current system (in their minds). Rough stuff.

  11. The lost city of... on Engineers Propose Lily Pad-Like Floating Cities · · Score: 1

    Atlanta!

  12. Pollution levels on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 3, Funny
    He said the pollution could increase, decrease or even disappear.

    Wow, awesome deduction there, Sherlock.

  13. Akron on Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? · · Score: 1

    Akron, Ohio's network is up and going.

    http://www.onecommunity.org/programs/programs.aspx?id=518

  14. RT on Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Not to be redundant on Vista SP1 Guides for IT Professionals Released · · Score: 1

    But I've been running the RC for SP1 for a bit now, and my system still crashes like the RTM version. I've been meaning to uninstall Vista for awhile. I think it's my hardware being too old, though (Athlon XP 2000+, ABIT NF7-S2 motherboard, 1.5GB RAM)

  16. Re:The main usability flaw I find on Instrumented GIMP To Identify Usability Flaws · · Score: 1

    I agree. I work in an accessible junior high school and I had to change the desktop shortcut to GNU Image Manipulation Program because I got complaints about it being offensive. It may seem silly to some, but I can understand the concern.

  17. Sunburn on Does SPF Really Help Curtail Forged Email Headers? · · Score: 1

    No, but it does help protect against sunburn.

  18. Lexmark on Kodak Challenges HP's Printer Sales Model · · Score: 0

    I'm looking at you, Lexmark...

  19. Re:Whoa... on The World's First National Internet Election · · Score: 1

    like the Red-Green coalition in Germany until recently Was it held together by duct tape?

  20. Re:Everyone uses it on Inside MySpace.com · · Score: 1

    MSN? Must be a different crowd. I don't know anyone with MSN. Almost everyone I know uses AIM, but it's the same basic principle. The new AIM client is annoying, though. Gotta love Trillian.

  21. Re:There are ways this could be more interesting. on Toyota Creating In-Vehicle Alcohol Detection System · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if you're drunk, you might get confused, think you're in a club, and start to grind on the steering wheel.

  22. Dammit on The U.S. Falling Behind In Broadband? · · Score: 1

    Dammit, we need to build more tubes! Now! And tubes of varying shapes and styles!

  23. Nano on New Nano Desalinization Method · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, the iPod Nano can desalinise water? Wow, is there anything Steve Jobs can't do? Oh... wait. Nevermind...

  24. Re:I'd be more concerned about phishing on Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains · · Score: 1

    I dunno about it not being dangerous. I've hit those link farm pages before, and they've tried to install spyware or change homepage or do other malicious things (this was pre-Firefox days for me, at least).

  25. No way on Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating · · Score: 5, Funny

    No way, there can't be anyone making dishonest or cheap mem... PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA