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Comment Re:Now all I need... (Score 1) 171

Yeah, the new servers I just received to upgrade our vmware cluster have 128G with only half the slots filled. Still 16 cores (2 x 8) per host, our limiting factor is having enough free RAM available for failover. The linux guests share ram nicely, but the windows guests are pigs.

Comment Re:Gah, Mixed Units! (Score 2) 167

No assumptions necessary. 9V is not enough to pass through skin, so the headline is obviously a throwaway line added later.

We know the power: 1/500 of 100W is 0.2W

We know the current: 0.002A

The voltage can be calculated as E = P/I = 0.2/0.002 = 100V

100V is enough to pass through some skin, especially that of the scalp.

Comment Re:Multiple issues getting bunched together. (Score 1) 203

I can buy unbranded ipod compatible 4 conductor headphones (with mic/switch) for AU$1.50 delivered from Hong Kong.

I can buy functionally identical apple branded headphones from jbhifi for $39 in store.

They're both made in China, and if China can leverage that $1.50(less postage) into jb going bankrupt, then they deserve to do so.

On the other hand, the fridge I bought this afternoon is (mostly) Australian made.

Comment Micro-USB is not popular (Score 2) 302

In fact, I'd not seen a device which had one before a few months ago when a couple of phones started to use it. Mini-USB has been the standard for years and is only fractionally larger whilst being much stronger.

I would suggest that that has been the primary reason for this choice - to continue the decades old tradition of delicate connectors to facilitate the upgrade path.

Comment Re:Ah yes. (Score 1) 99

We had just installed some new racks, which came with vertically mounted power strips. About eight sockets on a long aluminium box with a 10A circuit breaker at the end. Everything was fine until I was putting in some more patch cables and one brushed against the breaker. That was enough to trip it's hair trigger and take out half a rack of servers.

All those breakers soon found themselves with paperclip-based trip preventers, and we've since transitioned to much better APC strips.

Comment Re:The battle is ON! (Score 1) 580

fsm@universe:~$ su - root
Password:
root@universe:~# apt-get purge theodp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
    theodp*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 7563182347329836458723 not upgraded.
After this operation, 73.7kt string space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 87236572613241828286749857962983 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing theodp ...
root@universe:~# logout
fsm@universe:~$ WorldOfGoo &
fsm@universe:~$

Comment Re:Reqd car insurance is for liability, not the ca (Score 1) 2058

Here in Australia, the car has to have third-party liability insurance. It is part of the yearly car registration, and while you have choice of insurers, it is not optional. This covers the case where the car is stolen and causes damage, or an unlicensed or uninsured driver causes damage.

Comment Re:Inundated? (Score 2, Interesting) 216

They're also editing people's posts under their "terms of use" policy. Mostly it's removing the names of other firewall products, but there's a couple by the main editor "GeorgeV" with no indication of why the edit was made or any placemarker to show where it was made.

Ah, and there's also some posts which have entirely disappeared. Since the unique post ID is common to the entire forum it's hard to detect, and the #x post counter on the right is dynamically generated when the thread is displayed. I did see one post disappear, and then the user re-posted. Here's the details of the new post, which I expect to disappear as well.

http://forums.zonealarm.com/showpost.php?p=283543&postcount=40

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Trolling? Barely. Check Point software needs the wrath of the internet unleashed upon them to make them realize their mistakes.

[redacted] attacks make ZoneAlarm.com go down.

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Way to go Checkpoint, with one twitch of your marketing neuron you've alienated your loyal users and enraged the script kiddies.

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