Comment and the cost? (Score 1) 118
So now your 20 character "just on the way home" text message blows out to a couple of thousand bytes, and your telco provider has to send your SMS as 10 SMS now, and charges your accordingly.
Comment Solution : Run all your Windows apps in a VM (Score 1) 464
Run all your Windows App in a VM, and when you upgrade the physical hardware, migrate the VM (keep the same VM UUID, etc).
Comment What about Steam Games (Score 1) 371
Steam games are consistently higher priced - and you can't get round it with VPNs or Paypal - the credit card # proves you're in Australia.
And it's not like it's priced in Aussie dollars with a mediocre exchange rate - The games are priced on the same store.steampowered.com website in USD dollars.
So why more expensive now? Ah - because steam games would undercut the price of boxed games in stores.
Comment Kiddies (Score 1) 252
Juvenile hackers with an overdeveloped sense of self-importance, holding people to ransom with the equivalence of IT terrorism.
Comment Benefits: Health? (Score 1) 374
Being in full-remission for cancer (thanks God!), I'm working for an employer which gives 1 yr sick leave in a rolling 2-year window. It's the only benefit worth talking about (eg we have no coffee), but it's such a biggie, it's keeping me put.
Comment Re:Quarterly results and long term projects (Score 1) 488
I still wonder why Windows has both Notepad and Write.
Comment Re:0 unsecured (Score 1) 277
Yes, but MAC filtering is useful in addition to other defences (ie defense in depth)
WPA2 PSK, and
MAC filtering, and
firewall, and
ssh with preshared keys only, and
Comment What about 'New' drives (Score 1) 111
Some dodgy retailers in Australia have been re-shrink-wrapping used hard disks and selling them as new again.
Typically this seems to be with resellers that offer a 7-day money back no-quibble guarantee.
Is the CodePlex Foundation Truly Independent Now? 123
Glyn Moody writes "Microsoft created its CodePlex, 'an online collaborative software development portal,' four years ago, as the latest in a string of attempts to play nicely with open source. Well, maybe not: Microsoft saw the open source software projects it hosted there as reflecting 'the open community-building spirit of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative.' In September last year, it tried again, launching the CodePlex Foundation, 'a forum in which open source communities and the software development community can come together with the shared goal of increasing participation in open source community projects,' and not to be confused with CodePlex.com, 'a Microsoft owned and staffed forge that encourages the development of open source software based on Microsoft technology.' The only problem is that all the funding for the CodePlex Foundation still comes from Microsoft. But the new Technical Director of the CodePlex Foundation, Stephen Walli, thinks it can become truly independent of Microsoft, open to all companies to create open source software for any platform using only OSI-approved licenses. Will the CodePlex Foundation take its place alongside existing foundations addressing this sector, like Apache and Eclipse, but complementary to them? Or is it forever doomed to be ignored by the open source world because of its origins?"
Comment Re:My two cents (Score 1) 1217
>> Hawking was the only one to stay the course...and yes, he did get a laptop.
Oh really? Given that he was born in 1942, and would have left high-school at 16, or 18 (assuming he went to a Grammar school), he would have left school in 1960.
Now I know laptops have been around for a while, and unless you're a theoretical physicist who understands time, time travel, and
Comment Oracle buys Sun for (Score 1) 154
Customers, potential customers, and to stick it to IBM.
The OS is just a vehicle for a database.
Comment FTW (Score 5, Funny) 377
1) Change your name via Deed-Poll to the letters left in your rack.
2) Place letters on board
3) ???
4) Profit!
Comment Backspace in the Opensolaris/x86 console pls (Score 1) 307
solaris console login: ^H
Grrrr.
Comment Re:I wanted to like OpenSolaris but... (Score 2, Informative) 307
Yeah - same problem - of about nine or ten systems that I've tried it on (up to snv_133), all of them have at least one hardware problem.
eg from my memory
NIC drivers (Broadcom, Even Intel)
W/LAN drivers (Atheros for instance)
Display driver support (not just VESA!)
HW RAID drivers (Compaq, Promise)
AHCI drivers (including NCQ and hot plug support (slated to fix in snv 135)
AMD PhenomII support (fixed now since snv 126)
and I've had issues with the install (eg installation from USB CDROM)
However, saying all this, the journey is worthwhile - some features really are fantastic - especially together:
ZFS + snapshots + dedupe + Virtualbox VMs.
YMMV
Comment javascript randomness (Score 3, Interesting) 220
random my ass!
only appears to be random if you have javascript working (thanks noscript!) - Otherwise IE8 appears first on the list, on the left.
