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Comment Re:No *official* port. (Score 5, Informative) 333

there already IS an unnofficial port, im running a beta of it right now and it's miles ahead of what samsung is providing.
no random crash, or reboot, the status bar doesn't get stuck on top and i can actually answer every calls i receive (unlike the samsung rom which would make the touchscreen totally unresponsive about 25% of the time). to top it off, my battery lasts around 2-3 days instead of the 18 hours i was getting

Comment Re:Why should we trust openssl? (Score 1, Interesting) 53

i don't know about gnutls's maturity,

but polarssl does not seem to support renegotiation, that to me indicates it's a pretty bad choice for a vpn which you expect to be up 100% of the time and pass significant traffic. looks like the dutchies just wanted SOMETHING they had made locally in an approved software, security be damned!

Comment Re:Why? (Score -1) 238

they dont get the credit. they get the bitching.

java's garbage collector is horrible, probably the worst of all VM. that's exactly why you always hear about it
but it's the old "bad publicity is good publicity" trick, because we always hear about java's garbage everyone assume they're the only language to have one and they want garbage collection (who wouldn't? no one likes trash piling up on their front door!)

Comment improvement (Score 1) 381

this is actually an improvement over their current practices.

they've been billing based on usage for years now, but they charge 8$/GB instead of 1.12$.

unless the article meant Gb, in which case it's meaningless and just validates their current business model

Businesses

Submission + - Managing Requests: How does your business do it?

Feyr writes: Many businesses have a process to manage requests (purchasing, new services, modification, etc) that rely on countless spreadsheets based on a myriad of different templates, each of them being copied, emailed and modified in an ad-hoc way. i need not say this quickly becomes tedious. I've been tasked to find a replacement to such a system: The way I envision this would be a sort of web portal that would contain form templates to be filled out by the requester and stored in a database. those templates would be web-based and web-creatable and each of them being assigned one or more manager that can approve or act upon a request. managers could create new forms just by clicking a button and placing standard text fields on it

this is of course only a single possible way to do it, how does your business deal with these requests?

Comment Re:New Egg (Score -1, Troll) 314

newegg won't even let me purchase from them, their paypal settings are fucked and they won't do anything about it

i have half of a mind to think it's on purpose just so they can get get credit card numbers to run scams on, and this latest snafu doesn't help me think otherwise

Comment Re:Teamviewer (Score 1) 454

better than anything i've tried.
vnc, single-click uvnc, moodus, crossloops, logmein, pcanywhere, ms remote help, and a bunch of other paid-for remote desktop companies

it's a single exe on their front page, no installation: just run it. and there's no login and password that you need to get the user to understand or manage.

when they run the program they get an ID and password generated automatically for front of them. numbers only. you just have them read it out to you and you're in.

the ID is constant for a single pc, but the password change every time they restart the app for more security. they can delete the exe once you're done,it leaves no trace. and it's small enough that you can have them redownload it every time, which is often easier anyway.

my customer base is farmers, OLD farmers. i have not had ONE issue getting them to log on.
they're not always literate, much less computer literate. but they know numbers (got to count and weight those chickens you know...)

all other systems have been a nightmare.

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