Zebra1024 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Focus Will Be On Economy (Score 1) 757

by Zebra1024 on Sunday August 19, 2012 @11:48PM (#41050771) Attached to: Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate

So that should include people who work for the government, defense contractors, and people who pay taxes? How about senators and congressman? Everyone has a conflict of interest when it comes to the government that is why everyone gets to vote.

Comment Re:What's your actual problem? (Score 2) 284

by Zebra1024 on Monday June 25, 2012 @10:38PM (#40448037) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime?

The witness server is required for automatic failover. The witness can run SQL Server Express which does not require a license. Standard edition will work fine for this and the mirror server does not require a license.

Comment Re:Paid Vs. Free? (Score 2) 178

by Zebra1024 on Friday December 09, 2011 @12:59PM (#38315974) Attached to: Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Games Dominate

The good thing about AD supported applications is the developer makes money if people actually use the application (not buy it). This should encourage better applications and improvements over time to encourage users to keep using the application.

Comment Re:Don't Necessarily Blame Them (Score 1) 409

by Zebra1024 on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @08:55PM (#34760770) Attached to: Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads

I remember listening to the wall over and over in high school on a cassette tape. I was excited when CDs came out and I bought the wall because I could finally tell when each song actually ended.

Comment NTLM Authentication Support (Score 1) 70

by Zebra1024 on Friday November 05, 2010 @03:32PM (#34140582) Attached to: Firefox 4 Beta For Mobile Now Faster and Sleeker

Firefox on Android supports NTLM authentication with websites which the built in web browser does not support. This is required to connect to some of my companies internal sites which are setup to use NTLM authentication.

Comment Re:so much for being open (Score 1) 415

by Zebra1024 on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @03:03PM (#34104220) Attached to: Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App

No - I believe you have to root the phone to do WiFi tethering. But USB tethering is good enough for me and I can use Connectify to setup my Laptop as a hot spot If I need to.

Comment Re:so much for being open (Score 1) 415

by Zebra1024 on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @01:14PM (#34102772) Attached to: Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App

The app store sells tethering apps that do not require rooting the device. I am using one now which works great and I purchased it from the Google marketplace.

Comment Re:Bad move.... (Score 1) 412

by Zebra1024 on Friday March 26, 2010 @10:45PM (#31635978) Attached to: Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver

I hate when vendors do not support Linux - like using their own resources to produce a drive for Linux - oh wait... They are talking about Open Source support - they have their own drivers for Linux which will be supported.

Comment Re:Nice, but who has $1000 to pay on a CPU? (Score 1) 179

by Zebra1024 on Thursday March 11, 2010 @11:37AM (#31438178) Attached to: Intel's Core i7-980X Six-Core Benchmarked

This can really save companies on software licensing. For example, SQL Server is licensed per CPU (not per core). So now I can have a single 6-core CPU running my database with one CPU license.

Submission + - Alienware puts 64GB solid-state drives in desktops (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @03:18PM

Lucas123 writes: "In the face of Seagate's announcement this week of a new hybrid drive, Dell subsidiary Alienware just upped the ante by doubling the capacity of its desktop solid-state disk drives to 64GB. Dell has remained silent on the solid-state disk front since announcing a 32GB solid-state option for its Latitude D420 and D629 ATG notebook computers earlier this year. Now, Alienware seems to be telling users to bypass hybrid drives all together. 'Hybrid we consider to be a Band-Aid approach to solid state," said Marc Diana, Alienware's product marketing manager "Solid state pretty much puts hybrid in an obsolete class right now."'"

Vista Sales Expectations Too High, Office Doing Well 320

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, 2007 @01:43PM from the business-of-windowing dept.

PetManimal writes "A comparison of first-week retail sales of Vista compared to first-week sales of XP back in 2001 found that Vista sales were 60% lower. Steve Ballmer has admitted that earlier sales forecasts were 'overly aggressive,' but at least there is some good news for Microsoft: early Office 2007 sales were very strong compared to the early sales of Office 2003, despite almost no advertising or marketing until the retail launch at the end of January."

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