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  1. Re:And what happens with local hostnames? on ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains · · Score: 2, Interesting

    get localdomain (i.e localhost.localdomain)

  2. Re:Who said the US had no culture? on Study Shows Worm Grunters Imitate Moles · · Score: 1

    Having lived in Wakulla county for a while I can tell you this Festival (one of about 50 or so this place has ;). There always seems to be a stupid festival) is pretty much the biggest one they have. Supposed to be World Renowned.

  3. Re:Lower wages on Feds Consider H-1B Changes After Uncovering Fraud · · Score: 1

    Yes because every CEO is a criminal. If they did commit fraud they should be prosecuted. Putting a limit on their earning is stupidity that won't resolve fraud. In fact if they get paid less their incentive to be thieves increases.

  4. Re:As much as Microsoft is hated here on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    They fail at that too. Most horrible usability design. Can't even follow convention on how to quote properly.

  5. Re:On Site on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    they usually do for Teacher student communications. Most student don't put lots of effort in making their email neat and signed them and babygirl24@hotmail.com doesn't give ya good clue of who it is.

  6. Re:Why should colleges provide e-mail anyway? on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    Nah, they are spending government and almuni money on that, tuition is a small part of the total budget.

  7. Re:Why aren't you running it yourselves? on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    For centralizing email features in Universities you need groupware, do most student need this? not really. But the administration does. Students could care less about those futures since they have it in Blackboard/Moodle/WebCT/..... But administrators love their outlook and mobile push. Quite frankly if you need to run seperate systems one for the administration and one for the regular students then do so. Centralizing doesn't reduce complexity. Exchange gets harder to manage as the object count grows.

  8. Re:Horde on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 1

    Yep, higher level folks love exchange because of the "Businessy" feel but realistically exchange is being rolled into sharepoint bits by bits and one day it's all going to be online so, it's no different then Google. And I always hated the reply quoting in exchange, the crappy firefox downgrade client and the fact that exchange doesn't fit natively in Entourage which I know some like to use and is a microsoft product.

  9. Re:Missing the point - can save money on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 0

    The university in question will NOT be dumping a load of cash on this, and in fact will probably be saving some. Microsoft. Yahoo and Google all provide this free of charge to Universities

    HAHAHAHAHAHA keep dreaming. Free? right, cause they don't charge millions in site licensing for it? And then charge a per computer fee for each new machine? Get real nothing is free. And they already have the student base controlled minus the ones using more restrictive crap like apple products.

  10. Re:Missing option: on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: -1, Troll

    better than a mac advertisement, there was some truth in it.

  11. Re:3 choices? Ramifications? on Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I fully agree, I think out of the choices, Zimbra has to most usable interface and some nifty tricks. With outlook and blackberry/activesync connectors this would fully replace Exchange. And if you hear about grumble (as I heard happened at my university when they picked sun's JES email system) about public folders and such, tell them to use Sharepoint instead. (not much better but you keep the crap features in crappy software ;0p)

  12. Re:Everquest 2? on Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Think · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I must admit that the demographic for EQ2 is very different then for say GTA. Even WoW has a much younger audience.

  13. Re:Here, I'll get the basic comments out of the wa on WoW: Wrath of the Lich King Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Option 6 please. Oh and to make this quicker please just use the boilerplate examples provided.

  14. Re:Using Microsoft for a 5-nines SLA? Is that a jo on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um, wrong - Ever heard of the Mono Project?

    Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix.

    http://www.mono-project.com/

    Glad you fell for Microsoft's marketing campaign. There is a reason they don't crush mono. It gives a illusion that there is choice. Name me

  15. Re:Linux + Bigger HDD? on Dell Begins Selling Inspiron Mini 9 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can upgrade everything on the linux option. Just select and configure.

  16. Re:Don't waste my money! on Quebec Govt Sued For Ignoring Free Software · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit, Quebec french does not sound like 17th century french or anything like it. We have different dialects by regions but in the end our french is clean and proper and has evolved greatly over the past centuries. The fact that France has decided to let Franglish become the norm does not make Quebec french dumber or older. Just look at British and American english. Which one is more better than the other? (A Flamewar was not the intention, this is rhetorical)

  17. Re:special needs and government on Quebec Govt Sued For Ignoring Free Software · · Score: 1

    The way around that is to put the update cycle into the budget yearly. Instead of going all out in one year, stagger the cost over 3-4 years. Everyone likes to upgrade all desktop in one swoop but budget wise that might not be the best way to put it. If you budget is constant year to year, they usually don't have objection, when asked to slash cost, then is another issue.

  18. Re:Don't waste my money! on Quebec Govt Sued For Ignoring Free Software · · Score: 2

    why did you break it in the first place? AD is pretty resilient to breakage in my personal opinion. You really have to go out of you way to destroy a AD infrastructure. Except if DNS goes down, then all hell breaks loose :). Now I can see where the network was not standardized and shit was all over the place, but that is not the fault of AD and more of the sysadmins work quality. Proper naming convention on everything is important. Keeping software, scripts, profiles in location location and manner is also a most

  19. Re:Wait, who had 480i streaming video? on Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet · · Score: 1

    Or MacOSX.

  20. Re:Wait, who had 480i streaming video? on Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The two they care about (Mac, Windows) works fine. I still thinks it's a pain to have to run a windows vm on Linux to get content. Someone tell me why they couldn't just use flash like espn360 did for the Euro2008?

  21. Re:Mac Compatible... on Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones · · Score: 1

    I like that, and they could be a OS X reseller and sell the full dvd. I don't think there is anything that says you can't sell Mac OSX with another computer at the same time.

  22. Re:Well let's just be honest here on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    Did you upgrade the ram on that apple to 4gb? (but no one needs that much is a stupid argument)

  23. Re:Nothing new... on Military Spends $4.4M To Supersize Net Monitoring · · Score: 1

    >

    This article asks for nothing specific other than 'algorithms' to detect things. They didn't say anything like network (AI) behavioral based IDS. Nothing new here, move along.

    from the article "New technologies and applications provide new attack routes and have made traditional signature-based and anomaly detection-based defensive measures inadequate in both speed and sensitivity, BBN added." Anomaly detection is mentioned. They claim that signature based and other techniques they have tried didn't work quite to what they wanted. Nothing new in that. IDS have never been perfect.

  24. Re:oh good... let's all bury our heads... on Massachusetts Sues to Halt Defcon Subway Hacking Talk · · Score: 1

    bears are pretty smart, Yoggi bear can find a picnic basket anywhere.

  25. at&t not him on DNS Attack Writer a Victim of His Own Creation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, all I can say is, no one, not even him can prevent this shit from happening if a server out of their control such as this is unpatched. He should give at&t hell. All the other big ones like comcast and verizon claim to be fully patched. I understand the size of at&t's network but this is no excuse when everyone uses your network and pays good money for it.