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Comment Re:Great Job, Republican Judge (Score 1) 1505

by sir lox elroy (#34538374) Attached to: Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional
Meaningful??? Thank you for messing up my health care, raising my premiums, increasing my deductible, and overall severely lowering the value of my health care, also, causing my taxes to go up as I have to claim health insurance as income now, and my taxes to go up even farther to pay for fiascoes like this. I wish I lived in the world that some people do. Evidently money for things like health care grows on trees.

Comment Fraggin Great (Score 1) 304

by sir lox elroy (#34136518) Attached to: Apple To Discontinue Xserve
Well Looks like I will be working more on rolling out more Linux servers to replace the functionality of the XServes. What is next, no more Mac OS X Server? And the replacement options kinda suck. Mac Mini, great that will not work very well for remote home directories, redundant arrays, etc..., or the big honkin Pro, 1U vs 12U, can I have my rack space back please? Luckily there are some very good Linux packages out there that support Mac very nicely for a lot of this, Netatalk, OpenLDAP (Gee where did Mac get theirs), NFS, etc... I really did like Time Machine for ease of use, but I will find something for Linux, or create my own based around rsync. My boss has been an Apple fan for years, decades really, but at this rate Apple is attempting to disillusion all of the small companies like us whose computer infrastructure is majorly Mac, with some as in our case Linux servers. Between this, the Mac App Store and where it looks like that might be going, Java, and Flash/Adobe argument, it looks like Steve is getting a little, OK, a lot more arrogant, and driving quite a few of us away with it.
Hardware

Submission + - Wood Home Server Case with 70TB (englishrussia.com)

Submitted by sir lox elroy
sir lox elroy writes: A guy from Russia built this home server case out of Wood. He has 70TB of hard drive storage. The case has 40 case fans total. Reminds me of the fan layout and size of a Sparcserver 670.
Earth

MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System 117

Posted by Soulskill from the water-the-chances dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Field and Space Robotic Laboratory has designed a new solar-powered water desalination system to provide drinking water to disaster zones and disadvantaged parts of the planet. Desalination systems often require a lot of energy and a large infrastructure to support them, but MIT's compact system is able to cope due to its ingenious design. The system's photovoltaic panel is able to generate power for the pump, which in turn pushes undrinkable seawater through a permeable membrane. MIT's prototype can reportedly produce 80 gallons of drinking water per day, depending on weather conditions."

Comment Controlled by Microsoft no less (Score 1) 413

by sir lox elroy (#33836456) Attached to: Microsoft Eyes PC Isolation Ward To Thwart Botnets
Well this is a great idea (replete with sarcasm), well at least for Microsoft to regain control over the whole PC market. They would get to decide whose PC is worthy of Internet access. WOW, Wonderful, Robotic Overlords, who needs them when Microsoft gets to say who can access what. Hm why am I seeing a requirement for access being Windows running on the machine?
Apple

Submission + - Macs Don`t Matter So Much to Apple Anymore (eweek.com)

Submitted by thethibs
thethibs writes: An EWeek.com article proposes that "Apple is no longer a computer company that focuses its efforts on delivering the best machines users can buy. The company is now an electronics maker. And it wants to be the world's top hardware maker going forward. But in order to achieve that goal, Apple has forgotten about Macs. And although those computers are still somewhat important to the company, they aren't nearly as important to Steve Jobs and Company as they were years ago." If they're right, it explains a lot.
Businesses

Submission + - Flat Pay Prompts 1 in 3 in IT to Consider Jump (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Companies have cut salaries and training, held back on bonuses and piled more work on employees in response to the economic downturn. These tactics may well be pushing many IT pros to go job hunting, Computerworld's latest salary poll has found. More than one third (36%) of the 343 respondents to a recent poll said they are looking to move to a new employer in the next six months. And 69% reported they had not received a pay raise in the past six months. The poll was conducted during the last two weeks in September. For employers, the warning could not be more clear. As the economy improves, the most able IT workers may leave for something better.
Linux

Submission + - 5 of the Best Free Linux Music Tag Editors (linuxlinks.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A tag editor (or tagger) is an application which allows users to edit metadata of multimedia files. Metadata is the data about the audio data. It lets information about the audio file such as the title, artist, conductor, album, track length, lyrics, embedded images, and other information be stored in the audio file itself.

Tag editors are frequently used to correct and organise multimedia files and they support popular digital audio formats. They can rename files based on the tag information, replace words in tags and filenames, create playlists, and import/export tag information. An important feature we look for is the ability to make online database lookups, saving valuable time in collating tags and cover art for your music collection.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 proficient music tag editors. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to keep their music collection organised.

Submission + - Linux desktops, stand up and be counted! (dudalibre.com)

Submitted by LandruBek
LandruBek writes: There's yet another attempt afoot to show that Linux-based desktop systems are not as rare as purported. These folks want to demonstrate that the the penguin sits on at least 1% of desktops worldwide:

With this initiative, we intend to refute the statistics of certain press organizations that ensure [sic] that the use of GNU/Linux does not exceed 1% and has not advanced in recent years at the desktop. If you want to help us accomplish this goal, please participate in our statistics!

They're trying to do this by collecting ten million email addresses of desktop Linux users. If you're in that group, and you're ok with their privacy policy and want to be counted too, then why not sign up?
Science

Submission + - How Japanese Farmers Grow Perfect Apples (discovermagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Some people care about perfection. Many of those people live in Japan. This photo gallery shows the remarkable, admirable, and slightly absurd lengths that Japanese apple farmers go to in order to produce impeccable fruit. It starts with pollination via ostrich-feather wand, and continues with bagging the best young apples while they're still attached to the tree (to keep out bugs and that pesky sun). Finally the apples are un-bagged and reflectors are put around the tree trunks to ensure an even, beautiful red color as the apples finish ripening. The pictures of the wands, bag-covered trees, and stencils involved make this seem like some druid ritual.

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