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Comment Get free Farmville crap from 7-Eleven (Score 1) 96

by grag on Thursday September 02, 2010 @03:35AM (#33446618) Attached to: Target To Sell Facebook "Credits" As Gift Cards

I stopped at my local 7-Eleven two nights ago and noticed that some items have small prize stickers on them. Lo and behold, the prize stickers are for items in Facebook games. I don't know what range of games the stickers apply to, but I did receive a prize for Farmville and another prize for Mafia Wars.

I think I'll save these for my nieces and nephews as gifts for Christmas.

Comment a multi-doctor usage dispay (Score 3, Insightful) 120

by grag on Friday July 16, 2010 @04:14AM (#32923914) Attached to: 3M Says Its Multi-Touch System Means Almost No Lag

Instead of having several screens for one display, a large touch display can be divided into several touch screens for a number of doctors at one time. Just proposing an idea for hospitals.

Comment bottomless pits (Score 1) 828

by grag on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @04:56PM (#28031147) Attached to: I'll keep my castle secure primarily with ...

Don't forget about all those side-scrolling games that had bottomless pits.

Submission + - Possible System Imaging Solutions?

Submitted by grag on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @12:58PM

grag writes: I work in a very lean IT department of a small game developer. Currently, we have a small testing lab our developers can use for compatibility testing. However, we will soon need to perform compatibility testing running 3d games on various language versions of MS Windows.

We will need a system where the developer can easily choose a desired language system image and restore a machine without the assistance of IT.

I've looked at Acronis Snap Deploy, but it will only load a Master image determined by the deployment server. I've also looked at using something with Ghost for Linux and a PXE server, but I'd first like to get some feedback from the Slashdot crowd to help point me in the right direction.

Has anyone deployed a setup that will allow a computer to PXE boot off a server and then present the user with a list of various system images to clone onto the hard drive?

Submission + - Congress trying for another database

Submitted by grag on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @10:12AM

grag writes: CNET News.com reports that the US Congress, in their quest for immigration reform, seek to force employers to utilize a database to determine a person's eligibility for employment. The Department of Homeland Security would operate the database and would be given access to IRS records for this purpose.

The article also mentions similarities between the no-fly list and difficulties the proposed database could pose to valid people seeking employment.

Comment Desktop email clients use term labels (Score 5, Informative) 284

by grag on Saturday January 20, 2007 @10:28AM (#17694198) Attached to: Labels Not Tags, Says Google

Eudora and Thunderbird use the term labels. MS Entourage and MS Outlook use the term categories. By the way, is there some standards document like RFC saying any web app, especially webmail, has to use the term tags?

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