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Submission + - Troubleshooting for vmware

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russelstout
russelstout writes: "I recently have downloaded the vmware player. I am currently working in a chemistry program and am in need of using linux scientific 4 appliance. I have acquired it through my professor in the compressed format. Whenever I uncompress it using either Winzip or WinRAR it decompresses perfectly. The problem comes when I try to load it using vmware. It gets to a point in the loading process where it is loading the Linux kernel, but then it won't go any further. Having used this program on other computers I recognized that it takes a couple of minutes to start up sometimes, and so I waited. At one point I waited for three hours, and it still didn't load. What can be done? I've decompressed the file multiple times and still it won't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated."
Portables

Submission + - Text Messaging Hurts Irelands Youth

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LinusRed
LinusRed writes: "http://technology.sympatico.msn.ca/Report+Texting+ hurts+Irelands+youths/NewsandOpinions/ContentPosti ng.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=50499028&feedname=CP-TEC HNOLOGY&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtit le=&detect=&abc=abc " SHAWN POGATCHNIK Report: Texting hurts Ireland's youths In a report published Wednesday, the department's Examination Commission said cutting-edge communications technology has encouraged poor literacy and a blunt, choppy style at odds with academic rigour. "Text messaging, with its use of phonetic spelling and little or no punctuation, seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing," according to the report, based on national test results in English for about 37,000 students aged 15 and 16. The report branded today's teens "unduly reliant on short sentences, simple tenses and a limited vocabulary." Too many test-takers, it said, were "choosing to answer sparingly, even minimally, rather than seeing questions as invitations to explore the territory they had studied and to express the breadth and depth of their learning and understanding.""

Feed Sony spills some more info and pics on its upcoming laptops (engadget.com)

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We got some more info today from a friendly tipster about Sony's upcoming and not-so-secretive summer laptop lineup. The FZ info we had for the most part, but it's nice to get a bit of confirmation that Sony is actually going with 2GB of RAM and Santa Rosa across the board for the Vista laptops, along with Blu-ray in the FZ11Z. The other goodness we've got here are the first pics of the 11.1-inch TZ series (shown above), some downright sexy ultraportables that are replacing the comparatively frumpy TX laptops. Sony is touting up to 9 hours of battery life, with 1GB of RAM and a 80GB hard drive in the TZ11MN/M, and 2GB / 100GB in the TZ11XN/B. Both laptops feature integrated cameras and microphones, just like the FZ series, and are running Vista Business on Core 2 Duo U7500 processors. Still no word on price, but the info we have has these hitting at least the UK in July.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Comment Re:Nice! (Score 1) 178

by Artemis (#17353830) Attached to: Librarians Stake Their Future on OSS
I was the Technology Manager at a local library for 3+ years and in charge of the migration from Galaxy (GIS' old ILS) to Polaris. While it certainly has some problems and is missing some features, it is not all that bad. You can access any of the data you need directly from the MS SQL Server database, including reporting information. You can also modify/customize reports easily using Crystal Reports, licenses for this are included in all Polaris contracts.

FYI - the company is no longer called Gaylord or Gaylord Information Systems - they are now GIS Information Systems.
Security

Submission + - Watching you: IP-based video surveillance grows up

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Video surveillance has traditionally been a closed-circuit analog affair run by the physical security staff. But with the rise of IP-based digital systems, video surveillance has become another application on the corporate network managed by the IT department. "IP-based surveillance is the future," says Gartner analyst Jeff Vining. "It used to be expensive but it's now mid-range." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/121106-speci al-focus-digital-security.html"
Microsoft

Submission + - Second zero-day flaw found in Word

Submitted by LiquidNitrogen
LiquidNitrogen writes: According to ZDNet [URL]http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6142531.ht ml[/URL] another zero day flaw has been found in Microsoft Word. It's been less than a week that a similar bug was bought to notice [URL]http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/0 6/0230209&from=rss[/URL]
Yahoo!

Submission + - 5 Things Yahoo! Does Best

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Edward Teeger
Edward Teeger writes: "5 Things Yahoo! Does Best & Why It's Not Enough
Whenever someone at Yahoo! makes headlines for something or the other, people are always quick to start the Yahoo! bashing. Although we don't think Yahoo! is the coolest company out there either, they're certainly not another AOL as people love to imply. Yahoo!, like any other company/corporation/media-giant out there does some things right, some things wrong, and beats the hell out of the competition in other areas; but for some reason, people tend to forget.
I had no idea they made all those APIs! But still...."
Displays

Submission + - Personal DVD player resolution?

Submitted by redelm
redelm writes: For serveral years "Personal/Portible DVD Players" have been sold with TFT-LCD screens from 6-11" diagonal. However, very few of these units list pixel size/count or screen resolution. Some have only 240 lines! Any stats/advice?
Software

Submission + - Who Owns Deployments - Dev or IT?

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txpenguin
txpenguin writes: "I am IT manager for a small software company. We host several generations of our applications in a fairly complex environment. Our systems are very much inter-dependent (clustering, replication, heavily loaded, etc.), and bad changes tend to have a domino effect. Additionally, it seems that there are always those who need to be "in the loop", but aren't make aware of changes which affect them. There is a constant battle between IT and Development regarding who should handle the deployment of new code releases and database schema changes to production systems. Dev doesn't understand the systems, and IT does not know the code well. My question is this: How do you handle this at your company? What protocols seem to work best? Can there be a middle ground?"

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