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Comment Re:Configurability or Games? (Score 1) 718

I have a gaming machine which runs Win7, it's the first non-Linux machine I've owned in the last 10 years. The new (to me) UI in MS applications is crazy. It literally took me two minutes to figure out how to save a screenshot I'd pasted into Paint.

Here's a shot of the application. I actually never saw the save icon in the title bar until just now, I've been using the blue drop-down to the left of the "Home" tab to select "Save". Who the heck decided to put application icons in the title bar?

Comment Re:"John Carmack at the controls" (Score 3, Funny) 94

Pfft. Carmack doesn't use WASD, arrow keys, *or* the mouse. He has the console permanently open and controls his character's movement entirely with console commands. None of it is scripted, he's just that fast of a typist. In fact, half the time he's used timers to issue the next 90 seconds of gameplay so that he can just sit back and laugh at how predictable the rest of our movements are.

Comment Re:50% for a frist try? (Score 1) 221

I thought the same thing at first, but that would only be true if they'd looked at four samples and picked winners and losers from there. What they actually did was look at a number of items (the value of N here isn't clear to me) and picked four which they thought were bubbling. 50% of those predictions were correct.

Comment Re:A spreadsheet (Score 1) 113

It works fine for a single digit thousands of hosts and three sysadmins, which is what I use it for. Concurrent write access isn't really an issue since updates are fairly infrequent and it's obvious who should have the write lock on the spreadsheet, that being the guy in the datacenter who's installing or removing equipment.

An app would be nice, but it wouldn't provide any real benefit over the spreadsheet model until it was extended to touch on other areas of datacenter operations. Something like RedHat's Satellite (or the Open Source Spacewalk) would be an example of an application which provides extra functionality such as server provisioning, configuration management, and centralized updates.

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