Comment Re:i am impressed (Score 2) 246
I had 15 items and picked the 10 best.
Comment Re:I'm sorry, why should we care? (Score 1) 246
You sound like one of those people that piss all over the public bathroom floor and say, "ha! it's someone's job to clean it up! why should I care!" (since you made the janitorial analogy, I thought I'd complete it)
The biggest change in business in the last 10 years is the realization that IT is not a "cost to be reduced" but the driver of innovation that should be invested in, respected, and optimized.
Comment Re:What does Google need with a building? (Score 1) 87
Those advertisements don't sell themselves. Google has a very large salesforce. Since NYC is the center of the universe for advertising (think "Madison Avenue") and magazine publishing (name just about any magazine) it is obvious that Google has a large salesforce there.
Google already rents a large part of that building and has been quoted as saying there are at leaset 2000 employees there. It's cheaper to own then rent.
Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car 334
An anonymous reader writes "Jaguar has developed a hybrid car that runs on gas turbines. The range extended vehicle usually uses four electric motors (one on each wheel) plus a lithium-ion battery pack for propulsion, but can achieve a performance boost from a pair of gas turbines mounted in the rear. Cnet UK reports the car can do 0-60 mph in 3.4 sec. (and 50-90 mph in 2.3 sec.) and reach 205 mph while emitting less CO2 than a Toyota Prius."
Micro-Transactions Coming To Team Fortress 2 Via Steam Wallet 161
whoop writes "Valve has announced that Team Fortress 2 will be getting a new Mann Co. Store to buy trinkets with real money through a service called Steam Wallet. TF2 is the first game to use this new Steam Wallet, but the money can be spent on anything in Steam, including full games. This would open them up to featuring gift cards, micro-transaction games, and more."
PC Gamer has an interview with Valve's Robin Walker about why they're doing this. Walker says everything they're selling will still be obtainable by playing the game, other than a few cosmetic items.
Submission + - Power Outage: A true test for Ganeti (lancealbertson.com)
JerseyTom writes: Ganeti is open source virtualization's biggest secret. Migrate a running VM from one physical machine to another is easy with Ganeti. It scales bigger with each release. Ganeti 2.x is plug-in based and includes plugins that lets you manage Xen or KVM VMs; storage plugins include DRBD, and flat-file (no SAN required!). More plug-ins on their way. A small but growing community is starting to use Ganeti for more and more advanced projects. Lance Albertson recently reported his Ganeti success story; after a power outage he watched "this system recover everything automatically".
Bookmark Power Outage: A true test for Ganeti (lancealbertson.com)
Submission + - Send a Valentine's Day card to your system admin? (everythingsysadmin.com)
JerseyTom writes: Sure, there's plenty of jokes about the "office IT guy" that everyone hates, but the truth is that the majority of us are respected and appreciated. The organizers of a system administrators conference in New Jersey are encouraging people to send a Valentine's Day card to their system administrator. Time to show your SA some love?
Comment Why does Slashdot accept articles like this? (Score 2, Insightful) 171
What a troll!
Of COURSE they reserve the right otherwise they couldn't off anti-virus and anti-phishing features. Plus, it is open source so you can certainly build your own binary and remove any features you want... I guess you want your credit card stolen?
Why does Slashdot even accept posts like this?
Comment This article is BS (Score 1) 273
It's been widely reported that the GPS functionality on his BlackBerry is disabled AND that the security settings are checked periodically.
Anyone that researched this article would know this. THE AUTHOR IS JUST MAKING SHIT UP TO GET HIS NAME NOTICED.
Submission + - Harry Potter printing is delaying other books (everythingsysadmin.com)
JerseyTom writes: "The book printing factories are so flooded with print orders of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that other books are being delayed. Limoncelli's blog about the long-awaited 2nd edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration says that his book is a victim."
