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Comment Re:windows, meh (Score 1) 1127

*Getting the card to work is simple! [even an idiot could do it]. Just grab the source code for the module and compile it against the kernel. insmod it and then use iwconfig to configure a WEP password ... *from ubuntu pocket guide

Really, you MS zealots crack me up - do you have a programmed function to paste this crap in each time someone mentions how fscking GOOD linux is now?

Comment Re:windows, meh (Score 1) 1127

+ 5 Funny (preaching to the converted)

ditto your experience ...

when I read the title of this post, the parallel universe version of me (which is STILL using XP) went, "Windows 7 DRM? Hmm, does that mean I can't get the free *cough* upgrade from my unlicensed install of Win XP?"

tell your boss - Windows is dead an an OS (until in desperation they make it $0 (but still closed). Get out while you can ...

Comment Re:Who cares how much it costs... (Score 1) 183

Just call it "stimulus" and us yanks will just print some more money for it. :/

There's nothing wrong in this economic environment with printing money.

Inflation and interest rates can easily get out of hand if we get to, erm, stimulated.

credit crises (now) > cash crises (after govt goes into deficit) > print money > inflation/high int rates ... if we add further job cuts into the mix at this stage the cycle renews > more foreclosures > housing slump, food prices spiralling.

printing money is the prescription under the old rules, but ...

Comment Re:Europa, but differently (Score 1) 183

Really if we're just looking for microbes we're bound to be disappointed.

not really. let's look for microbes (most likely candidates) and if the cameras capture some horns or stuff before *NO CARRIER* then we can all hang in excitement until the next mission arrives

Comment Re:access to space (Score 2, Insightful) 183

cheaper is one thing - getting space progs on a higher budgetary priority is at least as good.

we could have worked out a single mission visiting both by now if we didn't worry about crud like cold wars, wars on drugs/terror, etc ... oh well

BTW - i almost fell for the sig, nice one!

Comment Re:Uh? (Score 1) 388

... the people fixing problems where not even in the same country as the data centre.

We had a few people pulling cables and the like, but they were lowly paid people...

I don't get it - are you in Brazil, Russia, India or China?

Comment Re:There is too much money in Windows (Score 1) 555

...last I heard, Microsoft made something like 1/3 of their revenue from Windows...

bizarre if true - they pay HOW MUCH for an OS?
Office Jerks (.au) currently lists Vista Business for $417 full / $360 upgrade

I reckon there is some merit in TFA. We're in a cost-cutting part of the economic cycle. Even pointy-haired bosses can see that paying for an OS just doesn't make sense.

Comment Egyptian Gods and workplace goddesses (Score 1) 1397

My last IT manager used Egyptian gods for the servers: Tor, Thoth, Ra, etc.

I always prefered useful names. Everyone was installing printers via IP address or Netware dotted nomenclature, but I'd go into the http config and add the location or name of a nice girl that sits near the printer :)

It helped, no really

Comment Pacific Trash Vortex now available on Google Earth (Score 1) 181

Google has unveiled what is touted as being one of the most comprehensive 3D maps of ocean rubbish in a major upgrade to its free Google Earth program.

For the first time, web surfers can surf amongst some of the estimated 100 million tonnes of plastic and assorted human refuse that has been accumulating in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre since the 1950s - all without getting their hands dirty.

Demonstrating the far superior beauty available from Web 2.0 applications, in comparison to the grubby ocean, the Ocean feature of Google Earth allows users to zoom in and out of specific locations on a tapestry of panoramic images that have been woven together. Beat that, stupid Nature!

John Wanke, head of Google Earth said, "The great thing about this site is that it will be inclusive," the irony that we were all already included and represented by at least one piece of crap in the great pile no doubt lost on him.

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