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Comment there more to cost savings than migrating... (Score 1) 375

How much money do you save migrating to Linux when marketing and sales use OS X and Windows with software for those OS's. You have to get all new software that runs under Linux, get everything running under Wine (for the Windows dudes) and provide support people to handle the training and issues. And the OS X guys are screwed, they can't run their software at all.

Artificial cost savings.

Comment We are not running out, we are being stupid (Score 2, Interesting) 717

A friend of mine just colocated his server. The colo he used gave him 4 or 5 IP addresses for his single computer. Even though he is running VM's, he does not need 4 IP's.

This kind of thing is happening everywhere. Cleaning up that kind of junk will give us time to convert to IPv6

Comment self signed, public access (Score 1) 269

I suspect that most of those are for 'private' use. I personally have a self signed certificate so that I can do secure webmail from anywhere. Webmail is at a public address where anyone can see it, so a check would show an invalid cert. But in reality, it doesn't matter at all.

The number are skewed and probably meaningless because I strongly suspect I am not the only one doing this.

Comment Public information (Score 1) 329

This is not a comment on whether Facebook makes too much information public. This is a comment on the whether public data can be scanned:

If the data was available on the public site then there is no privacy concern. If they 'hacked' facebook to get private data, then there is a privacy concern.

Public data is public data and anybody can 'scan' it if they like.

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