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  1. Re:Open source games instead of Xbox? on Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day · · Score: 1

    Gears of War has nothing on Call of Duty 4 and Halo is full of a bunch of newbs.

  2. Re:Minor correction... on Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Ribbon is a disaster. They still have menus and dialog boxes but now they are just harder to get to. In fact some of them you just relegate to getting to on the right-click menu because you can't find them otherwise.

  3. Wait wait wait on Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab · · Score: 1

    I'm still confused. When did they get on the Internet in Kentucky. Isn't Kentucky like the boonies where hillbillies and gay cowboys live?

  4. Re:Another big difference: competition. on Doing the Math On the New MacBook · · Score: 1

    Or you can do like any real geek does and spec out the components separately and build the system yourself. Then it doesn't have to be big because you can choose your own case and it doesn't have to be loud because you can buy the quietest fans on the market.

  5. Re:thieves standing around on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    You overthrow small governments and weak governments with revolutions. You overthrow modern governments and modern militarys from within over the course of decades. Bill Clinton got a good start on shutting down the military of the world's lone superpower but alas he didn't have anyone in line who could win the next election and carry on the legacy.

    Yes, I'm being facetious but there is a little truth to my humor.

  6. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997253(EXCHG.65).aspx Everything I'm reading says there must be some sort of shared storage. That makes it a little more then checking a box. It also makes software update take one more step. Ya, it is easy but it's not trivial.

  7. Re:thieves standing around on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    Uhm, the Geneva conventions make a nice distinction which you can take home with you and put a bow on. The distinction is between combatants and non-combatants. The point being that non-combatants and civilians are off limits in warfare. You can't just bomb the shit out of them for no reason.

    Freedom fighters are fine so long as they keep their fighting to attacks on military bases or government and make themselves known and don't hide in civilian populated areas. Terrorists just terrorize by attacking anyone and anything. If you are going to go out with a bang it would be much more honorable if you would restrain yourself from blowing up random civilians in a market place.

    Other than that, your post is spot on.

  8. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    What you describe is not trivial to install or maintain. It is possible to do but MOST small to medium businesses DON'T do it.

  9. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 2, Informative

    No no no. We are talking about two completely different things here. My point was that with Google EVEN WITH downtime there is no loss of data. I then pointed out that RAID controllers and the hard drives attached to them sometimes fail in such a way that nothing is recoverable. Then I pointed out that you don't have real-time backups. Yes, the email gets delivered but nobody can get to their old mail until you do a restore in which case they probably lost some email between when the backup was done and when the server failed. Then you mentioned that you can throw extra servers at it at which point I mentioned that this really is cost prohibitive when you compare it to Google's solution.

    If you want to argue features or speed or something like that then I will listen, but arguing against Google Apps because of reliability is lame and you don't have much going for that argument.

  10. Re:Yeah, for time wasting on Web Singletons? · · Score: 1

    It's true.

  11. Re:For timewasting on Web Singletons? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep. That was a waste of time. Although it may contain the most euphemisms I've seen for vagina in a long time.

  12. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    Boy you are dumb. I know I can get a million 9s if I just throw money at the problem. Luckily for my company this system admin has a business degree and knows that throwing money at 9's is not a very bright idea.

  13. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 2, Informative

    What part of my post didn't explain how even with close to 0 downtime you STILL might have data loss?

  14. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    I just glanced at what they have. It is nice but it's on the expensive side.

  15. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the storage of the email not the routing of it. I already have redundant mx records with my outsourced spam filtering service.

  16. Re:You get what you pay for! on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    More like $27 for a 100 user company. But ya, still a small condolence.

  17. Re: Sig on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    It is to those who defend it religiously. Look up the definition of the word religious. Nevermind, I'll do it for you.

    3 a: scrupulously and conscientiously faithful b: fervent , zealous

  18. Re:Outage Outrage on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    You only pay when you have over a certain number of users.

  19. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1, Informative

    DO you have real-time backups? Hard drives do fail. They have moving parts you know. Most of your solid uptime is luck. Part of it is planning. Still mostly luck.

  20. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    Uhm, and in which case is doing it yourself not going to result in Vendor Lock-In?

  21. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 1

    The exchange went down because once the database corrupts you are supposed to move all of the email out of it and into a new one.

    Another thing... my faxes come to my email.

    Those two things aside though I have seriously thought about moving our company to gmail.

  22. Re:The benefits of cloud computing on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That gmail-lite project appears dead. That or they just forgot about the blog since 2005.

  23. Re:Want to end the campaign now? Ask this: on McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Want to end the campaign now? Ask this: on McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy · · Score: 1

    You know considering that he rarely mentions this I don't get the joke. Is the joke that all of the sudden having military service is a disqualification for being President? Please explain it to me because I am anxiously awaiting your intelligent response.

  25. Re:McCain has no shot. on McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy · · Score: 1

    They don't need to lie low to do that. They just need to ask Net Gingrich to run for President!