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  1. Re:Maybe the small business standard...but on How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 2

    had level 2 QB support tell me that if a user is hosting, it can mess wit the sharing from the server for the rest of the lan. wrote a quick-n-dirty PS script to look for qb hosting on the clients. mind you, it is not as easy as turning off the service on the machines, have to do it from quickbooks on their pc. this spits out who has hosting on, no responce == good. save below into a file with .ps1 extension. and make sure you have "Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned" $Servers = @("pcname1","pcname2l","pcname3", "pcname5","pcname6") for ($i = 0; $i -le $Servers.length -1; $i++){ $qbService = Get-Service -Name QuickBooksD* -ComputerName $Servers[$i] | where { $_.status -eq 'running' } if ($null -ne $qbService){ write-Host $Servers[$i] echo $qbService}

  2. Re:Dropbox on Man Claims Cell Phone Taken By DC Police For Taking Photos · · Score: 2

    i think what you meant to say was not "Either situation can result in Bad Things for the officer involved." but Either situation can result in Bad Things for the officer involved, but we all know that the never will. or at worst a slap on the wrist and a day off.

  3. Re:crash faster on Windows 8 Graphics: Microsoft Has Hardware-Accelerated Everything · · Score: 1

    Lacert, DMS, "productivty suites", Quickbooks, random other 14 year old software we still use. the big one for my shop is quickbooks. it is silver or worse on the winehq database. if you could get quickbooks to run as a proper sql instance and a web interface front end, several small accounting firms could go witj iDevice, android, linux, mac anything but windows.

  4. Re:Why not just an ubuntu box? on Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? · · Score: 1

    the ram usage is a misconception*. it is not freenas/nas4free vs ubuntu that is so much the issue. it is that zfs basically needs 1Gb of ram per 1Tb of space. in my personal case, this meant i was limited to about 16tb of space. i chose my raid card specifically to be able toadd in this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816401184 later so i would have needed a motherboard that supported 64GB of ram, putting med to high en server stuff. sure as it sits now, i have debian running, and uses such a small fraction of my 8Gb of ram it never concerns me. but i lose all the cool features zfs provides. *i want to be fair, freenas with no zpool/zfs will use very little ram. in practical terms zfs with 4+ 2Tb drives will consume all the ram a "normal" desktop bord would have.

  5. Re:Why should MSFT work free because he fucked up? on Microsoft Taking Heat For Five-Figure Xbox 360 'Patch Fee' · · Score: 1

    make it work on the super secret steam console coming out ...

  6. Re:Built to Last on Apple Expanding NC Green Data Center · · Score: 1

    but fahhhthur, i don't want any of that!!!! i want to sing ..... no no, stop that ..

  7. Re:Language on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    non a french speaker, all i got was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyu2jAD6sdo "that's racist"

  8. Re:A foul subject. on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 1

    wow a "frost pist" variant that i can live with. to bad this is also not a first post, the double entendre would be too much.

  9. Re:They are even dumber than they seem. on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 1

    why are you talking about chewbacca, that does not make sense. .... see southpark for the humor and or reference impaired.

  10. wow ... on Google Vs. Microsoft: a Tale of Two Interviews · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He went in unprepared for possible the toughest IT interview of his life and he did not get the position. BIG SURPRISE. then he had some job leads spoon fed to him, interviewed at a few other places and nailed the MS interview. the end. saved you the 45 seconds it takes to read it. the position at MS was more MIS/marketing, and they asked "softer" questions, big whoop. Just some ivy league brat who didn't nail his first interview, and wanted a way to bitch.

  11. Re:That's *it* for me and Blizzard, man!! on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows you never go full retard. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942385/quotes

  12. Re:Market Analysis on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    but even then, assuming you could still make sense of the ordering of the pages, and kept them all, you could still 'use'/'read' said book. a dropped/broken e-reader is e-waste.

  13. rid of pennies on Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies · · Score: 1

    put out as a referendum, let people vote. get rid of them. then comes the sob stories of old cat ladies who now cannot afford food because the price was rounded up 2 cents.

  14. Re:To what degree? on New Hampshire Passes 'Open Source Bill' · · Score: 1

    and its not so much just the smb using quickbooks. it the accountants. the IRs and everyone else. oh great you used FOSS to run your business... now who will do the accounting? who do you call when the paychecks won't print? who do you get to do the tax review? how do you handle the IRS audit? MS and quickbooks are "the killer' apps most SMB live and die by.

  15. something similar on Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server? · · Score: 1

    I am currently doing something similar. I decided to go with a sas controller. http://www.servethehome.com/intel-sasuc8i-lsi-lsi-sas3081er-lsi-1068e-based-raid-controller-review/ this will get me 8 drives now, plus ability to add in the sas expander and easily go to 24 drives and more. Im in a case that can do 8 internal drives (plus a 4 in 3 if i choose) for now, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146075 and will probably move to a norco case when i need to expand. something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038 as far as fileformats, i say go with what works for you. handbrake and mkv do well for me. server software, i am currently trying to decide between ubuntu/centos or freenas. freenas will let me run from a flashdrive, the others will be easy to do bittorrent, LAMP stack, and run GUI and use file server to actually play movies to the tv. went with a gigabyte mobo and an i3, so it can decode even a 10gb movie and keep up on the bitrate just fine. it mostly just comes down to personal choice at this point, both would work well. just please consider staying away from the windows home server stuff, to many quirks for me. mobo/cpu ram. is a matter of choice. a 6 core phenom in a server chassis in the garage with proper ventilation should do just fine. or an i3/i5. although a friend of mine has windows 7 on computer near his tv, and he says handbrake refuses to work with the i3. but it worked fine when i had it with ubuntu ymmv. at that point it is just a matter how much do you want to spend, how long to wait for the recodes. unles you wanted to spend with abandon, then maybe a supermicro mobo with ipmi or something like a dell and a DRAC card "might" be worth it, since it might live in a closet or garage.

  16. Re:Lawyers, Judges, Representatives, Senators, ... on Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet · · Score: 1

    I almost modded you down, but decided to comment instead. First, "Run for public office" breaks down in to many ways to cover them all. Only the type (currently, at-least those that are actually elected) are like shareholders, their only goal is to get re-elected ( similar to, only goal is profit). Not that is impossible, but typically the duopoly prevents anything but the status qua. another barrier to entry is the mountains of cash you would need. take Ron Paul for example, spending his own mountains, still not likely to get elected. second, "vote in people you want to win" what if i want someone from a third party? or want someone from something other than Dem or Rep? i realize all that is technically required is to get me and a group of friends to cast enough votes to get them a majority. we can't even get more than around 10% of the population to vote as it is. now you want me to somehow get enough people willing to vote and vote for a 3rd party, yeah right. third, " file lawsuits" kinda like what is going on soon in the supreme court with healthcare bill. the only way to do a lawsuit is to have reason to show cause, that you were already injured. Are you suggesting i break my arm just to wear a cast for the winter? it's about the same thing. lastly, " Fatalism is not the answer", by simply doing what the framers had in mind? you know "...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"

  17. Re:Wait, what? on Researchers Build First Molybdenite Microchip · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i think he ment "rare earth element" in the common everyday sense, not the smug chemist sense. you know like how DeBeers wants us to think of diamonds ...

  18. Re:Nice thought, however not close to reality. on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 2

    yeah any more info on getting the permit? and recopies? id like to know. seriously. enough to drunk-login and post.

  19. Re:Plead the 27th on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    This! i have been saying this for years. there are to many "sheeple" that are to dumb/stupid/ignorat that when the last few intelligent people decide it is time to revolt there simply will not be enough. also the flip side, the sheeple vote for what looks good, vastly outnumbering votes made from insightful choice.

  20. super kick-puncher on FCC OKs On-Body Medical Networks · · Score: 1

    so we have milliwatt generators that can run off of blood sugar. Approved for a whole body network. how long till we can get a lela wrist pc?

  21. Re:Should X be mandatory? on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    oh man micro econ was some time ago, what was that word? extrinsic cost? whatever the econ word was, it meant, something with a cost to society as a whole, or outside of the entity. like letting 1 in 100 kids go un-vaccinated. it is not so much the cost saved from not paying for that 1 shot, but the ripple effect of relying oh herd protection. or more broadly, pollution. company x dumps pollution into the air, all the town suffers from poorer air. there is not a specific cost to company x to clean the air or pay for the cancer treatments. how this applies, there is a cost associated with sorting the waste, storing 3 "trash" cans vs. 1. there could be a cost savings of reduced landfill from organics being reused somehow. (just yesterday i saw this http://energy.gov/articles/pumpkin-power-turning-food-waste-energy seems to apply here.) but would the savings be passed to the homeowner? not likely. would the cost of sorting be passed to the trash collection agency? seems not. so where would it go?

  22. Re:Ghost on Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? · · Score: 1

    i think you are looking for ping http://ping.windowsdream.com/

  23. Re:Acronis or Ghost Enterprise on Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? · · Score: 2

    alternativly, http://www.fogproject.org/ should also be able to handle most of what you asked or. may need to make a custom boot for the wipe process.

  24. Re:not Rep or Dem, so I'll take what I can get on A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age · · Score: 1

    i like ron too. problem is he is not "electable". the reality is, pick A or B, and no one else, because they cant get >40% of the vote.

  25. Re:Which VPN (offshore) is best/recommended on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 3, Interesting

    privacy.io