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  1. Re:News to me on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    I'm in rural Wyoming. SMS is unreliable.

    Delays, messages just don't show up many times. Its not strange for a text message to show up several hours later.

  2. Re:Don't forget: on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 2, Funny

    wait....why is mother-in-law someone you want to not get sick?

  3. Re:FLexlm on What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection? · · Score: 1

    I hate FLexlm, and completly refuse any software that uses it to be purched in my shop.

  4. Cisco VPN Client on Now Is Not the Time for Vista · · Score: 1

    I'm running the newest cisco VPN client on vista right now...........it works fine.......

  5. 1.5 Ton? on Keeping a Data Center Cool on the Cheap · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't feel comfterable using a 1.5 Ton to cool the servers i have at my house.

    We have 25 tons of cooling in our core server room (at a small community college) and are looking at replaceing our current solution.....or maybe i should ugilify my cabinets.

  6. Re:Missing "Poll" option on Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings · · Score: 1

    I would say that support is the reason I migrated away from open source at work. There were five or six different open source applications i needed support on. Every time i asked a question on irc or forums i was met with a very sanctimonious "figure it out your self" or "we are not your tech support, we are in the channel becaouse we like the program".

  7. Not me on Short Lifetimes of Optical Drives? · · Score: 1

    i have had completly different luck. the DVD player i've had for 3 years is just now starting to show problems. it probably played at least 4 movies a day. I have cd/dvd drives in computers that are probably close to 10 years old now and still work fine. granted now that i said that they will probably all die.

  8. Re:At Least It's Not Arrogance on Berkeley Grads' Identity Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    We are required to run Datatel's Colleague product. It runs telnet and just reacetly got the ability to run telnet over SSL. Our backend database is IMB Unidata...Oracle would be a god send. Ever tried to pull a report from a nested relational database?

  9. Online Meeting Software on Protecting Your Enterprise Network from Vendor App Servers? · · Score: 1

    If a vender requires direct access to any of my equipment i require them to use an online meeting software. WebEX, Cisco MeetingPlace, Lotus Same time, etc. They don't have to know passwords, and i can watch every thing they do.

  10. /.ed? on Recycling Gone Wrong: The AOL Throne · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How can a site be /.ed before there are any comments

  11. Re:Way overkill on Ethernet at 10 Gbps · · Score: 2, Informative

    WS-X6704-10GE Cat6500 4-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module (req. XENPAKs) $20,000

  12. Cisco 7920 on Is VOIP Over WLAN DOA? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At work i use my Cisco 7920 wireless VoIP phone. We are in the middle of a remodle of the IT department and it works great. I've had very few issues.

  13. Re:George Lucas..... on Star Wars Original Trilogy Gets DVD Release Date · · Score: 1

    So he could sell you sepcial edition on VHS, then sell you the special edition on DVD. The best part is that after all of the movies have been out for a while he will have a Super Special Box set. So every Starwars fan will buy 2 to 5 copies of every movie.

  14. Re:Are OSS fixes really faster? on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1

    I would have to disagree. Using VBScript, Polices, and SUS i keep over 300 client machines up todate. It doesn't require Internet Explorer, or anything to be done by hand. All updates are downloaded one time and automaticly insatlled for end users.

    The blaster worm and email virus spreading are targeted at end users. Does your desktop machine need to have years for uptime? Will it effect you that much to reboot your computer from time to time?

    It is uninformed zelot posts like this that turn me away from Slashdot.

  15. Re:Hah on The RIAA's Hit List Named · · Score: 1

    I work at a smaller college. We have gotten calls from the State claiming that the RIAA called and then gave us a specific internal IP address.

  16. Re:MAPI? on Opengroupware · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem i see with having to use a plugin is that it adds time to your install. Does the plugin and OpenGroupware support public folders, notes, and shareing calendars? Does OpenGroupware support multiple sites? How did OpenGroupware address Outlook Web Access? My users require that feature.

  17. Re:How does mozilla handle old caches? on Netscape 7.1 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    shift click reload, pulls a new version the page

  18. Re:Rubiks' cube speed contest? on Google US Puzzle Championship · · Score: 1
  19. Re:The book of horrible questions on Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880 · · Score: 1

    Does the ATM card come with a $400 daily withdrawl limit?

  20. Random Mods on NES PC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do you ever think we will reach a point where a comptuer has been modded into every possible thing? I"ve seen a toaster, vcr, and now a nintendo. If i could find the link to the guy who modded a computer into a RC i would post it.

  21. Maybe i'm wrong on Running Windows Games with WineX · · Score: 2, Funny

    I could be wrong....but if you want to play WINDOWS games, why don't you just run windows? I've been saying it for years, choose the right tool for the right job. For me its hard to beleive that Linux should run on _EVERYTHING_. At this point in time I can not see a good reason why my home gameing machine should be a linux machine, the games were designed for WINDOWS, i'll run them on WINDOWS.

    To me trying to run Windows games on Linux is trying to put a screw in with a hammer. Sure it will kinda work some times, but why not just use a screwdriver?

    Every Linux zelot hate Microsoft, and many Linux zelots are trying to make Linux just like windows...am i missing some thing here?

  22. use for floppies on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    I've been collecting floppies that students leave in the computer labs at the college where i work, and I've amassed about 450 of them. The best uses I've found are: taking the metal slide covers off and using them to cook hotdogs with sunlight, building towers (similar to building with cards), and spewed across my desk for the "geeky clutter" look.

  23. buying roms on Borrowing ROMs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I would fully support buying ROMs across the Internet for one simple reason: I can't get the game anywhere else. I live in a small town in Wyoming where getting the new "popular" games is difficult at times. There is no used game store; the only remote possibility for getting games is garage sales.

    I don't play ROMs from being too much of a cheap bastard to spend $10 on a game; I play them because it's near impossible to buy them.

  24. the name on Why Isn't BSD a Desktop Operating System? · · Score: 1

    its all in the name. That is what myself and friends have come up with. You say FreeBSD and people look at you like your crazy....on the other hand if you say Linux people stop and take a look. If FreeBSD had a cool name it would be on top, and i wouldn't be the lonely BSD-Whore I am now.....