And then there's Windows 2008 R2... While I applaud the decision to go 64-bit only as a way to try and push developers into finally writing for 64-bit systems (after all, the capabilities have been around for what, a decade or so?), I think it may backfire on Microsoft the same way that UAC did in Vista. Users will be most unhappy that their legacy application that they've been running their entire business on for the last eight or twelve years and that can't be updated or is no longer available won't work on the new server they just bought. Of course, Server 2003 & 32-bit Server 2008 will reach their end-of-life eventually as well, and that's the point when things will really change.

In the mean time, Microsoft's need for constant support and massaging keeps a lot of us employed...

Aside from all being hosted on the same server, well, DiG says the PTR is for 'mail.fourguysfromtampa.com' and that the nameservers belong to Datapipe. So she's got one IIS system hosting multiple copies of the same crap, never asked her hosting company / DNS holder to update the PTRs, and hasn't made any effort to customize her 404 pages. Your point being? (I kid).

I'm actually a little surprised she didn't invoke John Dozier to protect her precious IP claims...

I was waiting for the Eva reference. Thanks!

I would be exceptionally happy if this acquisition meant a return of the linux-native VM Infrastructure Client, even if nothing else came of it.

I haven't really watched it much in the past few years (I think season 11 was the last one I saw?), but I imagine Iron Chef America is keeping him a little busy.

But as for his books, oh hell yes. Some of them include generic methods that are far more valuable than specific recipes. Kinda like known the SMTP protocol instead of just being able to configure Sendmail...

That's not a problem I've ever had either, and the ticketing system we use at work is (unfortunately) flash-based. I've left Firefox open with 5-10 tabs, including the ticket system, for weeks at a time without it crashing. Granted, this is with the newest flash on Windows 7 x32, so YMMV. At home I don't typically leave Firefox open longer than when I'm using it, but that usually spans four to five hours with multiple tabs as well, though there I tend to avoid the flash sites out of principle. One notable exception is that my wife watches YouTube for hours on end, and the worst that happens there is high memory usage.

Undoubtedly. Also, forget not that ICP / Psychopath Records has a huge marketing thing (and their own YouTube channel) where they sell literally hundreds, if not thousands, of ICP-related crap products to the Juggalo crowd. It's all about the money, and nothing more. If their fans could be educated to the point that they saw that, well, ICP would be out of a career.

The install finished relatively painlessly after about 30 minutes last night, and it's working like a champ. Unlike Ubuntu 9.10, Fedora 13 found my wireless card and the correct resolution for my monitor right away. The only things I can say are 'worse' about it are that 1) MySQL-server is installed by default (and I can't remove it without taking the desktop with it for some reason), and 2) installing the MP3 codecs on Ubuntu was a bit easier.

Now, with regards to point 1... I like MySQL - I really do - I just don't need it on my laptop. Well, the client is nice to have, but the server is overkill. For number two all I had to do was enable the FreshRPM repos and everything else took care of itself.

Will kick it around for another couple of weeks before deciding whether or not to put it on my main system. For what it's worth I used the 32-bit build instead of the 64-bit one.

Indeed I am. With the changes that are being proposed for 10.10, I'm not too happy with the Canonical people anymore. I'm sure this install won't be a breeze, but only time will tell. The biggest problem I have on my laptop is the widescreen wasn't recognized by X in a friendly manner (I worked around that, however, with a few tweaks to xorg.conf). Though I won't be putting fedora on my main rig - I'm thinking CentOS for that and Fedora for the laptop.

Right click on a folder, go into properties, click on the wrench & screwdriver icon (settings?), and remove Dolphin from the list of apps to open folders with. Move Konqueror up to the top of the list. Click 'okay' and wait for the system to update the configuration. Done.

Ah... That game brings back some serious memories. That was the game my senior year in college...

To this day I'm glad Square had the balls to actually do a state-side release. They were too worried that the religious themes would scare off customers / annoy the religious nutters.

Unfortunately, I can't really play it anymore. The graphics were sub-par even when it was released, and now they're almost unwatchable. Though it did have one of the greatest soundtracks I've ever heard in a game. If only they hadn't made the prequels such a mess...

Pennsylvania is riddled with old mines, both from limestone and coal excavation. It's relatively cheap to purchase 'waste' space that another company excavated fifty to seventy years ago.

Also, I'm a little remiss that I never knew this existed. I grew up one county over from Butler County and would have loved to have toured a facility like this. Then again, it probably didn't exist in its present state when I was growing up...

You didn't mention which XBox game, so I'll have to take your word for it. "Team Twinny" should be purged because pages that exist solely as self-promotion and provide no encyclopaedic content are against Wikipedia's rules. Here are their criteria for speedy deletion. Criteria G10 states:

In the "Team Twinny" article, that's exactly the case. There was another similar article for a deli in London that met an identical fate: all the article had was the street address, phone number, and a marketing blurb about what they sell. Had there been a history of the store, or perhaps something else other than just stating 'this is where we are and what we sell' it might have made the cut.

I just spent the last fifteen to twenty minutes perusing the Special:NewPages, and it's terrifying. For every actual encyclopaedic or even semi-valid article, there seem to be a handful of pages that are pure garbage. There are "articles" about fictitious bands, self-promotion, slander, and things that really don't matter. On top of that, many of the new submissions seem to be very poorly written from a grammatical point of view. They're not quite as bad as the average YouTube comment, but they're close. If I was in charge over there, I'd be deleting things left and right as well.

There are probably a number of reasons for the lack of quality, but certainly the ability for anyone to contribute has got to be a big part. Is there an easy fix? No, probably not. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the barriers to approval are lop-sided, so raising them won't necessarily help. It's not like potential users will put up with taking a written exam just to be able to edit a single page...

I would suggest using privilege escalation to grant users more power and control based on how long they've been members and require that when people create accounts, they specify a number of areas that they possess knowledge of. Say I create a new account. When a user creates a login, he has to pick five to ten topics that he thinks he's qualified to write about (and these can be fairly broad, otherwise we'd have far too many checkboxes). He can't make any changes or contributions for a week (to prevent people from signing up just to vandalize articles) and can only lurk and learn the rules. Then, after that time period is up, he's allowed to only make changes to existing articles in his self-proclaimed fields. If he makes enough good and accepted changes, then allow him to start writing new articles in his self-proclaimed fields. Finally, after a period of time has passed where he's acknowledged as knowing what he's talking about and not a jerk who does things for the lulz, let him make changes/create articles anywhere.

One thing I would love to see done more than anything else, however, is the clear separation of fiction and non-fiction, by at least a subdomain, if not an entirely different FQDN. Star Wars as a film and a cultural institution in America? That goes in Wikipedia as non-fiction. Luke Skywalker as a person? That's in-universe and belongs in Wookiepedia, or at least in the fiction section. A biography of Luke doesn't belong in the same encyclopaedia as one about Louis Pasteur, plain and simple.

You've never played Disgaea, have you? Prinnies (a.k.a. 'demonic penguins') are the bomb. Literally. They explode when you throw them and shout 'd00d!' a lot. As an added plus, you'd probably get to work for Etna...