You mean, it doesn't involve chair throwing!?

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No.

We use SharePoint in a large enterprise although its pretty good at mashing together websites - unfortunately its really poor at search. I think Search 4.0 may improve the situation, but its nowhere near Yahoo, Google or other search technology. Technology doesn't solve all problems, I'd say this said company needs to focus on strengthening business process and implementing some user awareness programs.

Did Apple mention which respective countries and carriers will support tethering?

What a load of hogwash.

If USA were truly pro-free speech they would of permitted the implementation of .sex and .xxx namespaces.

Its nothing to do with what I think about porn, it has a practical use that allows people to quickly identify with the subject matter and to allow software to classify it as so.

The conservative government simply did not want this to happen, and they have successfully lobbied hard to stop these practical namespaces to be implemented.

Creating an Internet wasteland of "filth" may have some merit, but I highly doubt it will lead to an increase in people watching it. Most large, modern cities have "saucy" areas, but just because they are there doesn't mean every citizen visits everyday.

I still believe this process needs to be apolitical as noted, without government intervention - its the only way. I do not accept that the US has a higher ground than other forward thinking countries in this matter.

Grown up. Sure you shouldn't use Excel to store data that is supposed to be mission critical, highly available, maintain strong integrity etc but to perform quick and dirty dataset analysis its a very effective tool. And no, I don't believe even MS Access fits the category to trust important information - it shares the same mechanism as Excel to I use it mainly for doing onsite analysis, and to share this information with my customers without the need for them to install anything else. Its portable in the sense that anyone with Office can look at my data, charts and reports easily. It IS the right tool for the right job, for what I use it for.

As a power user of Word and Excel I find the inclusion of a native 64 bit version to be very welcomed indeed.

Excel 2007 added some much needed features that has truely turned it into a portable database program, whereby increasing the amount of rows from 64k to over 1 million, and from 256 columns to over 10k among other notable changes. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730921.aspx#Office2007excelPerf_BigGridIncreasedLimitsExcel

Like most people, I was apprehensive of the ribbon UI however after about 2 weeks of solid use I fell in love with it. Microsoft really nailed it, something had to be done given the shear amount of features available in a modern editor.

I hope to see some innovation from the OOo team to give their program a fresh face although I was impressed to see some improvements in their 3.1 release.

The demo was so much fun, playing co-op with a friend was really hard. We had to try the scenerio a good 5 times before we finished it.

The game has a sense of urgency, my heart was pounding during the first invasion of zombies into the house. The game requires a level of strategy I hadn't seen before.

To all these people that are whinging about the controls, it's refreshing that a somewhat different approach to game playing has been released. I'm tired of all the Doom wannabes.

Shame on the media for beating up the story regarding "media-fueled race controversy over the fact that Africa's zombies". Here's News! Its in Africa! If the scene was in New York, then you have got a point, but this is just blatant attempt to stir the pot in order to get reviews.

I'm definitely going to buy this game when it comes out.

I've worked on very large directory deployments.

10 million user accounts.

We were using Novell e-Directory for the authority user database and AD downstream via DirXML for compatibility/legacy reasons.

Remember, Novell basically wrote the book on directory services. Microsoft just copied their implementation.

You can use ZENworks to store Group Policy objects but it will take much more than a Slashdot article to explain these concepts.

The beauty of eDirectory is that Novell have agents for basically every platform that is worth a damn, try that natively on Windows.

When you're dealing with something as critical as a central directory you don't want to mess about. If you have to throw some money at it to ensure some accountability and support then do it. Windows AD works as advertised, but it only works with Windows - you're on your own with anything else.

There is third party companies that have written software that bridge the gap to manage UNIX systems, users, applications, policy which from what I've seen works pretty well.

At the end of the day it comes down to understanding your environment, budget constraints, support, IT strategy, applications, business/IT partners.

Oh yeah one more thing, this big install is for an education body.

The OLPC is a noble idea, but I think Negroponte has underestimed the the will of its competitors to ensure OLPC doesn't take hold to give them a clear advantage.

When Intel "stole" the contract for the government of Venezuela, Negroponte was outraged, but what his missing is, its just business.

I congratulate Negroponte for his incredible effort to have a vision to give the poor the tools needed to escape dispair and to build a device, but in the end, if Intel can do it, and do it better - than it really doesn't matter.

I'd like to see the poor using free software, but in the end i'd prefer them to have food in their bellies and using commercial software than having free software and going hungry with a bankrupt OLPC.

Its a shame, because I personally love the look of the OLPC, the Classmate looks terrible purely from an aesthetic perspective.

In the event that Notes is open sourced, I doubt this will greatly impact the reach of the product further into the enterprise.

Notes is such a horrid development platform who only seen the Web as a medium a few ages ago. The last major release closed some of the gap but it has a far, far way to go.

There's a difference between open sourcing OpenSolaris, and open sourcing Notes which the article fails to mention. Sun has something to gain by open sourcing OpenSolaris: to sell more Sun hardware. Notes can run on a multitude of platforms and doesn't require specialised hardware (like z/OS) to take advantage of the system.

Anyway if I was running a serious Notes environment, I'd be running it on IBM hardware anyway. For small deployments it won't matter that much.