banetbi - Slashdot User

Comment Good software, Really Complex (Score 5, Interesting) 53

by banetbi on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @01:54PM (#41671513) Attached to: Freeside Internet Services: Doing Well With Purely Free Software (Video)

I actually had Ivan install Freeside and train the staff when I was still running a dialup ISP. The software is a bear to install, but mainly because it is so massive a piece of software. At the end of the day, Freeside saved us a ton of man hours by automating most of the administrative tasks like account suspension and billing. Since I used it last Freeside has gotten loads of new functionality. It was well worth the initial cost of having Ivan come out and install, transfer our old accounting info, and train the staff.

No I don't work for Freeside or Slashdot.

Comment Open admin for schools (Score 2) 120

by banetbi on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @09:49AM (#40983871) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Open Source Software To Manage Student Grades?

http://richtech.ca/openadmin/ looks pretty good. It has more features than you are looking for but it definitely has an online grade book and report card function.

Submission + - McAfee Email Service Is Down (mycusthelp.net)

Submitted by banetbi on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @12:17PM

banetbi writes: McAfee's recently purchased SaaS email protection service is down across the country.

Comment When it is my code the problem is always... (Score 1) 292

by banetbi on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @02:14PM (#39263971) Attached to: AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon

a hardware issue. When it is developed by someone else, then it is a software issue, at least that is what I tell my boss.

Comment Wow (Score 1) 549

by banetbi on Thursday October 28, 2010 @08:31AM (#34048010) Attached to: Pay Or Else, News Site Threatens

And I thought Rupert Murdoch was crazy, these guys take the cake.

Australian AvP Ban Reversed 71

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 18, 2009 @05:51AM from the people-have-spoken dept.

Earlier this month, we discussed news that Sega's new Aliens vs. Predator video game had been refused classification in Australia, effectively banning it. After a scathing response from the developer saying they wouldn't censor the game, and later news that the classification scheme may be updated to include an R18+ rating, it now seems that the Classification Board has seen fit to give the game a green light after all. Sega's Darren Macbeth told Kotaku, "We are particularly proud that the game will be released in its original entirety, with no content altered or removed whatsoever. This is a big win for Australian gamers. We applaud the Classification Review Board on making a decision that clearly considers the context of the game, and is in line with the modern expectations of reasonable Australians."

Submission + - Andy Grove to Industry: Get off your Ass

Submitted by lousyd on Friday September 04, 2009 @12:23PM

lousyd writes: Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel and present instructor at Stanford Business School, has a message for industry. He believes that health care and energy, especially, could learn a lesson from computing's innovative and relatively government-free history. He asks students to imagine if mainframe vendors had asked government to prop them up in the same way that General Motors has recently had. On the issue of computer patents, he insists that firms must use their patents or lose them: "You can't just sit on your ass and give everyone the finger."

Submission + - Gmail Outage Affecting Even Google Employees (google.com) 5

Submitted by

David Lechnyr

on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @04:03PM

David Lechnyr writes: "We run a hosted Google Apps system and have been receiving 502 Server Error responses for the past hour. The unusual thing about this is that our Google phone support rep (which paid accounts get) indicated that this outage is also affecting Google employees as well, making it difficult to coordinate. Minor in the grand scheme of things, perhaps, but unsettling if it affects not only the clients but the service provider as well..."

Daily Sex Helps Improve Fertility 174

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @09:37PM from the use-it-or-lose-it dept.

mmmscience writes "While fertility studies lately seem to have been exclusively focused on in vitro fertilization [IVF], new data coming out of Australia may help with unaided successful conceptions. The study has found that men who have ejaculate daily produce sperm with less damaged DNA. While such actions decrease sperm concentration, it does increase motility, meaning healthier sperm have a better chance of making it all the way to the egg. Good news, as another report has found severe chromosome abnormalities in over 90% of IVF eggs, meaning artificial insemination is just now discovering a whole new field of problems."

Submission + - Google services failure 1

Submitted by

banetbi

on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:03PM

banetbi writes: "It seems that there is a massive failure at Google. Twitter is abuzz with reports of all Google services failing. It seems the outage is pretty widespread as there are reports from the US, Canada, and South America."

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