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  1. Re:How deep is the rabbit hole? on Does Microsoft Finally Have a Phone Worth Buying? · · Score: 1

    Ummmm.... ANY Blackberry?

  2. Liebert on UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company? · · Score: 1

    Liebert makes some really nice middle class UPS. Plus they have external chassis that can exptend uptime. Add the web card and you got email alerts whenever it does anything.

  3. Re:Up in arms? Really? on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 1
    But unlike the phone company Google has a copy of all your conversations. Every single one!

    Also, the payroll company has to follow enforced guidelines on privacy and what not. As far as I know, there are no such restrictions for an email system.

  4. Re:FireGPG on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 1

    You don't like your email being read by someone else? Then why are you sending it as a postcard? And if you don't care about that then who cares if Google reads it and sells the information to advertisers?

    FireGPG and others make encrypting webmail easy, and PGP/GPG and SMIME have been integrated into most mail clients for years.

    But can that be done from the web interface? Most users will NOT use a third party app and simply use the web interface.

  5. Re:News flash: you'll never make everyone happy. on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another reason they offer it free is the same reason Microsoft gives their software away to educational institutions: The student is much more likely to continue to use the product after they graduate.

  6. Re:When Hell freezes over... on Sony May Charge For PlayStation Network · · Score: 1
    The way I understand it is they will offer a Premium PSN alongside the free PSN.

    I would love to have the option for a pay-for network that gives me reliable connections, etc. At least you would have a choice to pay for playing online.

  7. Re:This kind of hype was exactly the problem on The Long Shadow of Y2K · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's very similar to the problems faced by health services on occasions like the H1N1 vaccination program. If the vaccination efforts are successful, and no alarming wave of deaths hits the world, then "obviously it was oversold and all those vaccination programs are money down the drain". If they turn out not to have covered all the bases and something terrible happens, then obviously "they failed to take proper measure to protect the population". Even a major success in public health can only be perceived as a failure for the lack of consequences (unless they tackle and endemic disease that has taken its toll for generations, but many of those cases have been tackled already). They are permanently stuck in a no-win situation.

    The problem here is due to all the other wolf cries that the media has shouted in regards to medical "pandemics".
    Anybody remember bird flu?
    Yeah, me either.

  8. Re:Virtualization on An Inside Look At Warhammer Online's Server Setup · · Score: 1

    +1 Insightful
    Even going from AMD to Intel procs on a VM server can cause issues

  9. VM? on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what VM's are for? Give them a sandboxed VM running the corporate image on a server YOU control. snapshots have them back to a pristine workstation after they are done testing.

    On the dev machine, keep that restricted down to the core essentials for development, that way you don't have to worry about a dev system being compromised and having potentially harmful code introduced into whatever it is you are developing.

    Keep the two separate I say.

  10. Re:oh no! on VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works · · Score: 1

    It hasn't been released yet (git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git)

    They’re out to GIT me!

    There, fixed that for you

  11. Re:With an important caveat! on The Machine SID Duplication Myth · · Score: 1

    I know for a fact that this is an issue with Server 2008 and Exchange 2007. I had a client that cloned all their 2k8 servers from a single image and after they put it into production their Exchange server suddenly stopped authenticating users. Turns out it was a SID related issue. Working with Microsoft support they had me try the NewSID app, which didn't work, so I was left with unjoining the server from the domain, sysprep'ing it, and then joining it backup. This was after 3 days of trying everything else before taking this drastic step. Had the NewSID app worked properly I would have been done within the first hour of working with MS tech support.

  12. Re:Not News!! on In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses · · Score: 1

    While, what you say is mostly accurate, what about the trusted website that displays flash adds from a compromised provider which in turn exploits a flash bug? (yes I understand you can run a flash blocker but again, think trusted site that pulls content from compromised source)

  13. Re:Actually MS is right. on Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And if you had been running FF (stock) or IE on the same page it loaded the same java applet you would have been "pwned" the same way. So to say it was Chrome that got "pwned" is inaccurate. That would be a Java vulnerability

  14. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? on Large-Scale Mac Deployment? · · Score: 1

    *shudder* GroupWise

  15. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? on Large-Scale Mac Deployment? · · Score: 1
    While this all may be true it does not change the fact that the solutions are not easy to implement.

    Pretty much anybody with 2 seconds of computer experience could setup and maintain all of these on Microsoft.

  16. Re:No more squirting on No App Store For Microsoft's Zune HD · · Score: 1

    Good. Now maybe they will loosen the sync restrictions (or at least not change it) so it can be synced to *nix and other platforms.

  17. Re:So in theory on IE8 Beats Other Browsers In Laptop Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Try iepro (link). It has built in ad and flash block capabilities. I used it on IE7 before I switched to using Chrome (which has an adblock script from a 3rd party if you do some digging). It says it's compatible with IE8 but haven't used it so I can't confirm/deny.

  18. Re:54 hours? on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    Offtopic? Does nobody understand humor here? Mod parent funny!

  19. Re:Purpose on Slackware 13.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please explain your comment on Gentoo. I've been running Gentoo for a while and find that once it is setup I don't have to touch it. In fact I just upgraded my home system after not touching it for over 1.5 years. It took about a day to upgrade (please save the "Gentoo sucks" comments) but I went from kde 3.5 to 4.3 with little hassle.

  20. Re:Holy shit! on Twitter Used To Control Botnet Machines · · Score: 0, Redundant

    +1 insightful

  21. Re:Google is IT done right... on Google Two Years Into Overhaul of the Google File System · · Score: 1

    Nobody who had taken even one decent class would have ever considered the original design viable.

    Maybe that's why they've lasted so long? The fact that they DIDN'T follow the already established principles may be why they are the success they are. Sure, some things may not have worked and they ended up going about it in a more "traditional" manner but I'm pretty sure they found improvements by going about this in a non-traditional manner. You know, the whole "think outside the box" thing?

  22. Re:Windows users? on How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories? · · Score: 1

    seconded.

  23. Re:Narrow escape on Security Flaw Hits VAserv; Head of LxLabs Found Hanged · · Score: 1

    Being somebody who has been affected by the attack on Vaserv (luckily my primary system was unscathed but the other 3 are MIA as of right now) I got curious and found this in regards to the vulnerabilities in HyperVM
    link

  24. Re:Exchange ActiveSync SSL issues on Palm Pre Is Out, Time For Discussion · · Score: 1

    That is very common. All WinMo phones have this "issue" as well.

  25. Re:Back to the Future? on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 2, Informative

    That may have been true with old licensing but if you purchase any new licenses they all come with "virtual machine" licenses of some sort.

    Windows Enterprise allows you to install that copy of Windows four times on the same physical hardware. If you buy Datacenter (which is licensed per socket on the physical machine) you can install as many copies as that physical hardware can handle.

    And yes this licensing applies to any hypervisor not just Microsofts Hyper-V. (link)