Priorities.

We don't care about a desolate place that will require sinking great wads of cash into it, unless there's oil, rare earths and minerals, or our IP has been infringed.

And to further rub salt into the wounds, they knobbled SBS like Apple knobbled OS X Server. For example, there's no in-house email in SBS 2012 or OS X Server 10.7+
This forum post has a good comparison of licensing SBS 2011 over 2012
In fact, compare the feature sets of previous versions and current versions of these two Server OSs and it's all about extracting recurring income through cloud dependence.

+1

Remember their imaginative lawyers are second only to their imaginative accountants - just ask the artists...

I always bought nVidia until the 7950 / 8800 / 9800 dry solder issues. After that many RMAs and arguements with wholesalers and retailers, I bought AMD out of retaliation, and this 5870 has been rock solid. I'll be going back to nVidia for my next refresh, but for me, nVidia has not 'always just worked'.

In fact, I'd wager no one brand 'just works' these days, since extreme capitalism is in these days, and they'll shop around for manufacturing plants and methods.

+1 DILLIGAF

Seriously, since when is this "News for Nerds"... This is just "Marketing for Plebs"

Yeah, cos that method worked well for IPv6

That would be because GFI bought them out, added useless code ("it's been GFIed") and got all metro-sexual with the interface.

I'll be looking for a different AV vendor come renewal time...

+1 for "Try them all."

Everyone here will have baggage from older versions, vendor bias, or a barrow to push.

As an example, I refuse to deploy Hyper-V in production ever since it mangled the VM XML configs on unexpected reboots, causing VMs to disappear from the management console. I've no doubt it somewhat fixed, but I still come across the occasional forum post bitching about a lost VM.

VCenter has an almost complete web interface that comes with version 5.x paid-for versions...
It's also installed on the VCenter VM Appliance.

Thanks for the clarification.

For a moment there I thought the AC was counting in binary

Tell that to Apple's lawyers re Samsung's phone dock :P

For a private school, executive went for e-Safe (http://www.safenet-inc.com/data-protection/content-security-esafe/) on Mac and PC.

It a system that transmits a machine ID along with running a keylogger and screen capture. Key presses are filtered through a central filter that alerts on things such as IM preening, online bullying, self-harm indicators, and inappropriate search terms. Screen caps are thumb-nailed, identified by machine ID, and monitored by humans for inappropriate images or video, etc. The content filter blocks and logs URLs any websites we request or fit their blocklists..

The House Heads are emailed logs of inappropriate activities on a weekly basis, and self-harm or bullying activities are emailed or SMSed immediately.

My role is servers and I haven't seen any of the logs, I just provide login logs and supporting documentation. All devices on the "guest" or "mobile devices" SSID are have a school captive portal that requires their school login.

It seems to work well, in that people are educated post infringement. It has also alerted staff to possible at-risk students (including boarders) and a couple of webcam sessions involving minors. Since it's installed, it does have the vulnerability of being tampered with, but they also alert us to attempts to circumvent e-Safe.

Note: I can't verify it's effectiveness since I don't see Pastoral Care issues. You will need to decide whether it fits your situation. I have some moral objections, but I don't make those kind of decisions...

It'll be an Extravaganza!!

Oh, wait. That's RU Paul

Because the Liberals (Conservatives) were blameless when they agreed to the US Free Trade Agreement that shoehorned US patent and copyright "treaties" into our body of Law.

Conjob doesn't deserve his job, but a change of government would be worse for IT and Technology in this country.

50% discount to seniors when bundling, and their superior 3G/4G mobile networks.

Other than that, they exist because of the copper their wholesale department owns...