MBAslug - Slashdot User

Submission + - Slashdot users imasculated by dillution

Submitted by MBAslug on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @12:09AM

MBAslug writes: Slashdot recently posted a news article about Microsoft's addition to Linux and by the end of the day only 291 people had posted comments. Clearly this dearth of postings must be taken as the end of the experiment, the end of the collective. The slashdot BORG uniformly stood for all that was good, intelligent, and right in the geek world. And now, like the English empire, Slashdot has faded into obscurity. Like a divide by infinity error, the truth has disappeared. Woe to us us all.

Comment Tell the truth, plainly (Score 2, Informative) 958

by MBAslug on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @12:22PM (#27313159) Attached to: How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work?

Gather the details of what is installed by using belarc's survey software. Summarize the number of computers, the unlicensed software and the steps necessary to move forward. Go to the executive privately first. This will allow him to evaluate and consider the path without cornering him.

The next step is going to be an evaluation by the managers to determine what software their people really need.

In the end, they need to get proper licenses, and no executive is going to wantonly commit federal fraud.

Submission + - Linux Boot on Dell E4200

Submitted by

MBAslug

on Saturday February 28, 2009 @02:07AM

MBAslug writes: "As the proud owner of the svelt Lattitude E4200 from Dell (in blue), I am obsessed with the tiny "Instant ON" button on the left corner. This boots the laptop into a Linux shell that should allow me access to the Outlook database on my high-speed SSD drive. The neanderthals running the corporate IT have chosen Lotus Notes and so the feature is useless to me. I want to boot to the application of my choice. Having moved into management, my geek credibility and skills have atrophied to that of an 8-year old and I haven't been able to figure out how to hack this feature to boot directly to a linux shell instead of Dell's application. Please, for the sake of this old man, can someone guide me into the promised land of a dual-boot Dell laptop with dedicated linux processor? Help us Obi Wan, you;re our only hope."

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