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  1. 12tb to Tape on Mid-Size Business Tape Library Suggestions? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    YIKES, your company likes to live dangerously.... put the tape idea on the floor, back away slowly, close the door, and lock it, lose the key and never think about it again... that much data to back up and it will grow.... seek the advice of a professional back up expert to come up with these solutions, I can't believe anyone in this day and age will still recomment to use tape.

  2. Eye candy rocks! on Thinking About Desktop Eyecandy · · Score: 1

    If the freakin system still performs underneath.... I get so many complaints from windows users(yeah, helldesk here on a mixed platform) that windows has locked up while opening another window/file! It froze when I was trying to save! We never hear from the apple users that they experience these problems... even on a FULL windoze server infra-destructure.

  3. Cause of all bugs found on Highly Critical Hole Found in IE · · Score: 1

    User Usage. Error 666: Please get an alternate/another/different/[insert logical and funny option here]. Please let's remember the last time we read about holes, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before dinosaurs lived that IE is bloated and really a patch work of medicore ideas, that probably will never be anywhere near secure. If you are saddled with working with/for a site the is IE only, umm, err... Use IE as fast as possible, then shut it down.

  4. Who needs Kreskin... on Windows Vista Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    anyone who has had any experience with M$ could have predicted this.... with a big hangover even! I know I have a post-it somewhere with this exact prediction on it.... maybe stuck to the one with my password?

  5. Re:Sudo is a tool not the entire solution on Sudo vs. Root · · Score: 1

    Social Engineering and Manipulation: Don't let your ego run as root! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/24/bofh_2006_ episode_8/

  6. Re:You're watching Futurama... on Futurama Returns · · Score: 1

    yes, but it was a Simpson's initiated pie fight...

  7. Re:You're watching Futurama... on Futurama Returns · · Score: 1

    It was the best of times it was the blurst of times!

  8. Re:Credit Card scams, the trick is.. on Card Processing Software May Store CC Info · · Score: 1

    never using the damn things again....mine are paid, and only use them when I have no other option to pay, i.e they won't accept cash, or check or chickens... I find being my own financial employee pays off. I had to use my credit card to book a flight, but then went on line the next day and paid the fricken bill from the bank account the airling wouldn't accept. My time spent 2 minutes, my piece of mind is worth that. Also, I don't want to see another slip of paper from any billing anything... what a waste, and it's passed on to us. Postage, paper costs, processing time etc. It could all be so much easier, but that is the cost of keeping people employed.

  9. Re:This is why cash won't die... on Card Processing Software May Store CC Info · · Score: 1

    Err, sorry, I was talking about the MILLIIONS in the U.S. that live below the poverty line, and in places that don't have a freaking phone, let alone a High brow bank account, hell the coffee can in the back yard has worked for generations...

    I have just returned from dinner and drinks... and I am guessing, but there probably more people below the poverty line in the U.S. as there are people in the U.K. Prove this over-eating drunk wrong...

  10. Better Provider? on Card Processing Software May Store CC Info · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know who may be a more secure credit provider? Discover, Amex, MasterCard? I am a Visa customer, no balance! no PIN#! Does anyone have any inside advice about any of the competetion?

    No Fat Tony Jokes please, he don't like that kinda crap.

  11. Re:This is why cash won't die... on Card Processing Software May Store CC Info · · Score: 1

    Those are valid points, but each day the technology gap increases, the have nots are being left farther behind. It is well and good for you to say you will be find other means of paying disputes, what about the millions in poverty that can't afford it, is the gov't gonna pony up for all these upgrades, hell no, it is gonna be the people they can reach who have taken this other means of paying disputes.... have a nice Pay! ;-}

  12. This is why cash won't die... on Card Processing Software May Store CC Info · · Score: 4, Insightful

    not in the next 50 years... Until there is a "PERFECT" system in place for financial transactions, plus, too many remote "poor" areas that can't afford the other gizmos required for electronic payment. Long live cold hard cash.

  13. Re:Stairs on The Mythbusters Construct a Kit Bot · · Score: 1

    my slinky would walk down stairs, get caught in my brother hair, become unusable with in a week. There was a truck with star shaped wheels that did ok going up stairs, can't remember the name, the rich kid down the street had one... it was hard to see through the breath fogged window.

  14. Re:Fat Tire on Green Geek Beer · · Score: 1

    According to my bro's in Colo. you can only drink one or two of these... or suffer the hangover of death, you know the one where your blood turns to maple syrup and flows about as fast...

  15. My #2 Browser on Opera Software Co-Founder Passes Away · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The loss of a loved leader in a group can have either of two outcomes:

    1. Everyone falls apart, and the group with it.
    2. The group rallies, and is spurred on to greatness.

    I use three browsers through out the work day, and personal night.

    1. Camino-Super fast, great for our intranet php based apps.
    2. Opera-Pretty fast, but has the option to open to last page viewed at launch.(The option that sets Opera apart really!)
    3. Safari-Solid performer, secure.
    4. Firefox-odd man out really, but do use it to test sites once in a while. useful. I do recommend Firefox to the common users I assist with their computers after virus, worm, malware etc climbed aboard via IE.

    I love that all of these browsers offer tabbed browsing ;-)
    There are tons of features I will never use on all of these browsers, but they are there for those who need the tools. I can't say enough about the browser choices available other that IE. They are the market of the future. IE will only be able to mimic the new features.

  16. Re:What I'd Still Like Explained... on NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory · · Score: 0

    Thanks, I'm not too much of a physics student... but I guess at a certian threshold principles no longer apply, good link too.

  17. Re:What I'd Still Like Explained... on NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory · · Score: 0, Troll

    forgive my odd and stupid question, is that to say that two objects moving away from each in a linear fashion at the same speed, are not both moving half the speed from a fixed point?

    BTW, my isp blocks wikoimpedia, something to do with slander, libel, personal defamation... but I can still browse prOn!.... or I haven't looked because I am busy.

  18. yeah, I had a big bong in college... on NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the expansion weed was killer? I think...

  19. easiest solution... on Torn-up Credit Card Apps Not So Safe · · Score: 1

    tear all in half, throw half in your garbage... take the other half to a garbage elsewhere, I thought to say work, but who on /. works?

  20. Re:Get the book on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    let me guess, it's a flash from a crappy disposible camera??? do we break the windows in Itcht and Scratchy land shops to get more... oh sorry a Simpson's flashback..... If I wasn't so drunk and lazy, I'd link to the freaking episode on simpsons dot com....

  21. Re:Obligatory Reading Material on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    cut the general public some slack... Just because some of us have read most all of Asimov's works is not a reason to be disgusted... Let's be happy that some of the members have even read 2 Asimov works... Sci-Fi is a big world... we can't all know it all. There has to be time for computer leaning too. BTW... good links!

  22. There should be a smilely on this article... on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    because it isn't really a serious article, it is solely based on a Sci-Fi story.... I know we would all like to see every Sci-fi thought that comes into our heads become reality, but c'mon.... Let's get angry at M$-not Asimov's fiction... but at the fact that the US army will one day be automatons.... and his fictional laws won't mean Dick! And I don't mean Philip....

  23. Re:before you blame IT on What Would You Demand From Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    We have just come to the point of having a yearly replacement budget, but it took a massive hardware failure to wake the higher ups. Our IT dept. were the dogs of the company for a couple years.... "nothing works"...."some new system"...

    Now we have it cruising along, and people appreciate what we do, and how busy we really are even when there is no crises. IT has been hard work, now it is fun to go to work, except on Mondays ;-}

  24. Re:Duh on What Would You Demand From Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    yes, don't ya love it when you max the ram and put a new hard disk in the box 6 months before you know it will be replaced, life is good ya just gotta know where to look!

  25. Re:Can't wait! on WinXP on a Mac, Hoax? · · Score: 1

    I use it to connect to my winbox in the other room.... works great.... good advice!