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Comment Microsoft does it again (Score 1) 1124

by dloflin on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @03:51PM (#29520543) Attached to: Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon

Sigh. Yet another case of "Microsoft does something, so we've all got to follow suit". Seems like any time Microsoft makes a UI change, no matter whether it's liked or not, all other Windows program UIs eventually adopt it.

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Broadband Access Without the Pork? 412

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 11, 2008 @04:41PM from the yessir-that's-the-mandatory-federal-barbeque-fee dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Like many consumers nowadays, I find more of my time spent on the internet and various wireless devices (e.g. mobile phone). This has gotten to the point where I basically do not use a landline or cable television anymore, and they are essentially pork on my broadband bill, which further subjects the consumer to all sorts of clandestine fees that aren't disclosed until the first bill arrives and add a non-trivial sum (in my case, nearly 100%) to the monthly rate. However, it seems that all broadband access providers have this stipulation, that an internet customer must first have a basic phone or cable TV service in order to sign on for the internet service. Are there any ISPs that can get around this and still deliver broadband internet service at a competitive rate?"

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Comment POSTPATH (except...Cisco swallowed it) (Score 1) 249

by dloflin on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @05:10PM (#25965871) Attached to: Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source

PostPath (http://www.postpath.com/) is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Exchange - e.g no MAPI connector needed, they reverse-engineered the Exchange protocol.

However, Cisco bought them recently, and unlike most Cisco acquisitions (which continue on nearly unchanged, e.g Linksys), PostPath seems to have been swallowed up. I hear their intent is to turn PostPath into an email-as-a-service product. Thus, not available as an in-house server any longer. Sigh.

Cisco - make PostPath available for in-house (non-SAAS/cloud) servers again!

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Comment Magnetic plasma bottle (Score 1) 197

by dloflin on Monday November 17, 2008 @06:00PM (#25792779) Attached to: The Science of the Lightsaber

I've always figured a light saber would be a high energy plasma generated from within the hilt and contained in a magnetic bottle. The tricky part is getting the bottle to take the long cylindrical shape - hence the skill of a Jedi being needed to construct one. But that explains cutting through things quickly, and why (magnetic) shields can block them. Or why they can deflect blaster bolts (ie charged blasts of dense plasma, imo).

The article doesn't explain how *anything* about this "arc wave energy field" works or how it is shaped into a long cylinder or how it is kept to a certain length. At least with a magnetic bubble containing plasma, it's a little more explainable (except how to keep it a cylinder, not a round bubble...haven't quite figured out how that would work).

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