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Comment Re:risk (Score 1) 403

This.

The people I work for are terrified of any kind of business interruption.

Even none critical stuff is backed up and taken off site nightly. Each member of staff (30 or so) has been trained how to do this and shown how to perform a restore. Backups are performed by staff as part of their daily routine, not as an afterthought when the bell has rung and everyone is thinking about going home.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft clears up Linux confusion over Windows 8 (msdn.com) 1

CSHARP123 writes: Redhat employee Matthew Garrett speculated that OEM machines that ship with copies of Windows 8 may lock out support for Linux installations. Garrett highlighted Microsoft’s new Secure Build OEM requirements for Windows 8 systems. Microsoft chose to directly respond to confusion surrounding its Windows 8 Secure Boot feature on Thursday.

Tony Mangefeste on Microsoft’s Ecosystem team revealed that Microsoft is working closely with its OEM partners to improve the security experience of Windows. “Microsoft supports OEMs having the flexibility to decide who manages security certificates and how to allow customers to import and manage those certificates, and manage secured boot,” says Mangefeste. ”We believe it is important to support this flexibility to the OEMs and to allow our customers to decide how they want to manage their systems.” Mangefeste believes the customer is ultimately in control of their PC. “Microsoft’s philosophy is to provide customers with the best experience first, and allow them to make decisions themselves. We work with our OEM ecosystem to provide customers with this flexibility.”

The Internet

Submission + - Bing Launches HTML5 Video Homepage (bing.com)

suraj.sun writes: from the Bing blog, "Here at the Bing homepage team, we’re always looking for ways to bring you a little something special. Today we’re really excited to announce the first ever video homepage ( http://www.bing.com/ ).

If you have an HTML-5 enabled browser, you now get all the beauty and intrigue of the Bing homepage with a little breath of life added. Users without a modern browser will continue to see the gorgeous still photography that we’re known for.

We won’t be programming a video every day, just when the mood strikes us. While this first video is US-only, we’ll begin rolling the video homepage out to international markets in the next few months."

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/09/23/something-new-on-the-homepage.aspx?form=MFEHPG&publ=TWITTER&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_SM0921_bb0921_TW011_1x1&q4127248=1

Comment Re:have they bought "Beyond Pitiful" yet? (Score 1) 439

Having just searched for oil spill on google.co.uk

BP Oil Leak Response
www.BP.com/OilLeakResponse
Info about the Gulf of Mexico Leak. Learn more about how BP is helping

Right next to the words "Sponsored Links"

Your making it out like they bought top spot in some underhanded way, if you've got the funds outbid them and you can have top spot too!

Comment Worst. Interview. Ever. (Score 1) 184

The more I speak to you John, the less I like you.

I terminated the interview at this point as I was getting angry with "John" and felt it was better for me not to continue.

The interviewer had the opportunity to obtain information from a convicted scammer who was willing to talk openly about his experiences, and comes out with quotes like that?

I don't think this interview happened at all.

Comment my 2p.... (Score 1) 3

In England a car factory (Nissan) has recently started hiring new people on poorer contracts than those already in the job.

Bosses will most likely argue its the economic downturn or whatnot, what it boils down to is people doing the same job in the same office/building earning, at times, vastly different sums of money.

Odds are if you ask for more you won't even get to the interview.

Best of luck.

PC Games (Games)

Does Professional Gaming Have a Future? 116

mr_sifter writes "Three years ago, celebrity gamers such as Fatal1ty were bagging millions in prizes, and TV channels were queuing up to broadcast games on TV. Professional gaming looked set for the big time. It never happened, and in the current economic crisis, sponsors and media organizations are cutting costs, resulting in the closure of many pro gaming competitions (as we recently discussed) and a down-scaling in prize money. This feature looks at whether pro gaming can bounce back, and whether it will always be a PC sport, or if pro gaming on consoles is the future."

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