Comment Re:Could you be more vague? (Score 1) 412
Money is like air, its only important if you don't have any.
Comment Re:Second on the drive thing (Score 5, Informative) 835
SMART has its uses, and a quick and easy check is to use the program 'speedfan' as this has a built in feature to read AND analyze (requires net connection) your HDD's smart information, By no means the be all and end all, but it is the quickest way I know to identify a failing hard drive.
Comment Dlink DNS-323 (Score 2, Insightful) 517
I have evaluated a few different products (I have a retail store) and so far I have been very happy with the DLINK DNS-323
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with DLINK other than I stock some of their goods
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with DLINK other than I stock some of their goods
Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS 419
snydeq writes "Microsoft today introduced Windows Azure, its operating system for the cloud. The OS serves as the underlying foundation of the Azure Services Platform to help developers build apps that span from the cloud to the datacenter, to PCs, the Web, and phones. Cloud-based developer capabilities are combined with storage, computational, and network infrastructure services, which are hosted on servers within Microsoft's global data center network."
Inside View of Epic, Preparing Gears of War 2 106
Subm writes "Lamborghinis, motion-capture rooms, secret new weapons — these are a few things included in the profile of Epic Games and its Design Director, Cliff Bleszinski. 'A Microsoft employee who works closely with Epic described the company as having a "band dynamic." Staff turnover is low, and many of Epic's most senior employees have been friends for more than a decade. This does not seem a very long time until one sits in on an Epic meeting and realizes that anyone over the age of thirty-five achieves the temporal stature of Methuselah. Epic's recent growth is regarded with wary gratitude by many of its employees, though some miss the old days, when, as Sweeney put it, "we were just a bunch of kids who had some cool ideas and were doing neat things."'"
