Comment Re:Oh I so want that! (Score 1) 206
Just imagine, a girl with all the bits labeled with barcodes so you can scan them and google the manual for it! And easily order replacement parts.
And think of the upgrades you would be able to do
Submission + - Pano Logic has closed its doors (businessinsider.com)
Wolfraider writes: Just a few months ago, Pano Logic, an enterprise tech startup seemed to be have a bright future replacing oldfashioned PCs with up-to-the-minute cloud technology.
Today, the company has shut down, its leaders have vanished, and its customers have been left hanging.
The company's PR team has confirmed to Business Insider that Pano is out of business. No more details.
Today, the company has shut down, its leaders have vanished, and its customers have been left hanging.
The company's PR team has confirmed to Business Insider that Pano is out of business. No more details.
Comment Re:Who doesn't want Pizza? (Score 1) 418
Depends on the area. Papa Johns in Memphis tastes great. The ones in southern Mo tastes like a horrible cheap pizza. The rest tastes much better around here.
Comment 2008 Enterprise and Datacenter (Score 1) 313
Windows 2008 Enterprise and Datacenter x32 will support 64GB of ram,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_server_2008
Comment Re:Love it, always fascinates me people who hate i (Score 1) 475
Honestly, I want to get rid of standard time and go to strictly DST year round. More sunlight in the summer, still dark in the winter.
Comment Re:Very true, for many reasons. (Score 1) 298
Programmers code programs
Administrators code scripts
The difference is that programs are used but lots of people and generally have nice GUI interfaces. Scripts are used by 1 or 2 people (sometimes more) and are used to make your life easier.
Submission + - Microsoft Surface tablets to launch on October 26 (networkworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: This past June, Microsoft showed off its new lineup of Surface tablets. The selling point, or perhaps differentiating point, of these tablets is that they come equipped with a cover — similar to Apple's smart cover — that doubles as a keyboard.
Admittedly, it all seems rather cool, but in typical Microsoft fashion, they remained curiously quiet as to what the price points would be and when the product would even be available for purchase.
But now comes a report that the products will be set for launch on October 26 at midnight. Let the skepticism or excitement begin.
Admittedly, it all seems rather cool, but in typical Microsoft fashion, they remained curiously quiet as to what the price points would be and when the product would even be available for purchase.
But now comes a report that the products will be set for launch on October 26 at midnight. Let the skepticism or excitement begin.
Comment Re:Win+X (Score 2) 436
I also run Win8 at home. Just like I used the quick launch in XP and pinned all my apps to the taskbar in Win7, I have pinned all my apps in Win8 to the tasbar and stay in desktop view. I don't care for the simpler color scheme. It looks like windows is taking a step back to Win 3.1. Overall Win8 is not bad.
I agree that it is buggy but I blame most of that on NVidia. Tried their new Win8 drivers for my video card and they would crash all the time. Reverted back to the Win7 drivers and the crashing has stopped.
Comment My Distro's (Score 1) 867
FreeBSD -> Redhat -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Solaris -> FreeBSD
with a few others mixed in
Comment Re:Not the real prob (Score 1) 141
Our datacenter has the lines on poles since we pretty much live on a rock shelf. Most digging requires a blasting crew to make a trench.
Comment Re:Does Windows 8 have an opt-out feature? (Score 1) 489
To be honest, Windows 8 does ask if you want SmartScreen enabled on install.
Comment Re:Wedge (Puck) Mouse (Score 1) 156
The GUI which Apple knicked from the Xerox PARC lab.
Jesus, do we really have to rehash this yet again?
Apple paid Xerox for access to PARC. I guess we really do have to re-hash this every time.
And Microsoft licensed parts of the GUI from Apple
Comment Re:How the money could better have been spent (Score 5, Informative) 295
FYI, you can use repeaters to overcome this. Centurylink has used a few repeaters to get DSL out in my area for only $50 a month. Grated the speed is only 1.5mb but I will take that over satellite any day. I live 12 miles from town or around 9 miles from the closest DSLAM.
Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 648
Cartoon Network already requires you to have a cable subscription to watch anything on their website. My nephews are the only reason I still have the basic satellite service at my house.
Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 502
I think that sounds like a really cool server room. Everyone always liked the blinking lights in the server room, now just image blue light glowing between the slots in the servers.
