When there is a problem with Linux, you fix it. When there is a problem with Windows, you replace it. Make sure you have updated Windows images - this is possible by making a daily image of the system in VMWare is alike. Tweaking of software like databases is possible, but it is cheaper (in terms of hourly price) to just buy more memory and more processing power. Actually these tricks do pretty well on Unix-systems too as an extra solution. As you cannot look into the code, you have to trust others. So make sure you have a good firewall and antivirus-software. I'm not tryng to make fun of windows here; Windows is a black box, so you need to treat it as such.

According to http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3574 and other sources, this research is already years old. Europe has acted on the research in 2010 to ban the additive.

It starts to bug me. Why are there two types of investigation? 1) "The hacker could not be traced as probably several servers were used". 2) "The IP was from China/Russia, so the hacker too". So since it is politically useful to the Americans to point at China, I suggest all hackers to get one of the computer in China. Best is Russia last with all logs at max, then China, then the usual.

There is one country that has most of the nuclear warheads, Interfered in or even started most of the wars in the past 20 years, and is not silent on their goal for world-domination, and guess once, it is not Iran.

Speaking at lower frequencies is a sign of dominance. See Animal Planet or http://center-for-nonverbal-studies.org/tone.htm If something changed over the past decades is the feeling of dominance by the USA - that reflects in various ways, so it seems.

Agree. The title of this post is also very annoying, especially the word "aggressively" - as if people with big budgets will solve this problem where people with big *brains* have been working on for ages. And also... which money is in the fund? Money borrowed from Japan and China with which the USA tries to force to default with? Come on, USA, focus! Focus!

Developer: "Sir, I have fixed the issue that I could not manage to compile try-catch clausules on Linux". Interoperability is not something MS is good at: it works perfect on Windows, works ok on other systems. Sends us back to the era where Linux-users got sold cars with 3 wheels and the conversation with the salesman became sort of funny. As probably mentioned by others, the latest release of Skype isn't that stable and I have a clue the word "keep" in "keep interoperable" will be a nagging word in the future of Linux-releases.

Most modern economies are a mix between socialism (healthcare and caring for the elderly, weak and poor) and capitalism (independence and freedom). Communism (independence-void) is an extreme form of socialism and corporationalism (care-void) an extreme form of capitalism. It took me a while to see that the current shift to corporationalism is breaking our freedoms more than we want to see - and still... we just shake our heads about "the brainwashing methods of communism" when reading articles as above. For that reason always vote for "extreme middle" to get a real stable system (referring to Van Kooten en De Bie, but very serious about it).

Exactly, as paper money (money backed by "stocks" and other emotional products) works the same way. I like this project as it explains the "normal economy" with stocks has exaclty the same design-flaws - and you point them out quite well. Since bitcoins I start to like the sentence "In money we trust" (or was it god? they get mixed up a lot).

The memory-demands for SP3 have increased a lot - Where SP2 runs well with 512MB, you need at least 800MB for SP3 to run basic software like IE and Office smoothly. Though this is not official, I have seen too many cases with unresponsive PCs after the upgrade. A good reason to revert back to SP2 if people don't know how or dare to upgrade hardware nor want to spend another €300,- to €500,- on a new computer.

Here is a map: http://www.astron.nl/~heald/lofarStatusMap.html

Only one interesting comment? Why so many people like to make jokes about Dutch technologies, I really don't know. Or do I just hear complaints about (research) jobs moving to Europe and Asia? Remember some flood in the US not long ago? Remember who helped you how to get prepared for such disasters? So "dykes" should be something you don't laugh about, but respect. They save your life. You probably heard the saying "God created the land, but the Dutch created their own". Just like LOFAR is an unique project, which sees the sky with different eyes. Lower frequencies means different data to be combined with existing HF-data, to complete the picture. Pulsars are an unique phenomenon which stll is not understood at full; reseacrh on lower frequencies Another thing is that LOFAR can look in any direction, whereas normal radio-telescopes can only look into 1 direction. The Netherlands have a very high reputation in (radio) astronomy kept high for several centuries.