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Comment At least they will clean themselves out. (Score 1) 881

by stickystyle (#30142346) Attached to: NASA Attempts To Assuage <em>2012</em> Fears

With any luck these people will off themselves prior to 2012 because they are flat out nuts. The ones that totally buying into hysteria but not nuts enough to kill themselves for fear of an event will hopefully fall into a deep depression and kill themselves when they realize they are dip-shits when the Gregorian new year rolls around.

Comment Re:The Image (Score 2, Informative) 164

by stickystyle (#29430713) Attached to: Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter

Seems to me like the real reason for him being angry is that the iPhone application he's complaining about looks to be basically an iPhone version of his desktop application. Someone beat him to it on the iPhone and he's mad..

Actually, he did have an iPhone version of his app but Amazon.com forced him to pull it http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/2517428863
Networking

Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? 688

Posted by kdawson from the tune's-my-own-invention dept.
spectre_240sx writes "We've discussed server naming a fair amount in the past, but I haven't seen much about workstations. Where I currently work, we embed a lot of information in our workstation names: site, warranty end date, machine type, etc. I'm of the opinion that this is too much information to overload in the machine name when it can more suitably be stored in the computer description. I'd love to hear how others are naming their workstations and some pros and cons for different naming schemes. Should computers be logically tied to the person that they're currently assigned to, or does that just cause unnecessary work when a machine changes hands? Do the management tools in use make a difference in how workstations are named?"

Comment Get a zebra and send ZPL directly to it (Score 1) 188

by stickystyle (#28891017) Attached to: Linux-Friendly Label Printer Recomendations?

We use zebra printers all in our WH with linux workstations. I just write ZPL (similar to postscript) by hand for all our labels and our ERP application spits it out to /dev/lp0. Benefits that it requires no printer subsystem and you can send labels out to the printer at the absolute maximum possible speed.

Comment Re:T-Mobile Customer? (Score 1) 302

by stickystyle (#28244367) Attached to: Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard

Are you talking USD?
I've never heard anyone offering 40k/year for an actual sysadmin, I was making that when I was 18 doing front line help desk. Heck, a quick google says the median is ~70k and I'm willing to bet the t-mobile sysadmins make a bit more than that (well, if this story is true - they are pulling in unemployment now).
Windows

Windows 7 RC Rush Crashes MSDN, TechNet Pages 186

Posted by timothy from the unimited-desires-v-limited-resources dept.
CWmike writes "Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) and TechNet paid subscribers were supposed to find the 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows 7 RC available for download today. But in a snafu reminiscent of the problems Microsoft had in January when it tried to launch Windows 7 Beta, the download pages for the release candidate were inaccessible, despite numerous attempts over an hour-long span up until about noon Eastern. TechNet and MSDN subscribers were not happy. 'Man, this stinks,' said a user identified as Lyle Pratt, on a TechNet message forum at 10 a.m. ET. 'I can't believe we can still bring MSDN to its knees!' said John Butler, a Microsoft partner. 'Surely, they should be able to deal with this? Not a good advert for Microsoft.' The Windows 7 RC is slated to be available for public download next Tuesday, May 5. Meanwhile, Microsoft said today that the RC would operate until June 2010, for 13 months of free use — a significantly longer time than it did with Vista's previews."
Debian

Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X 871

Posted by kdawson from the continuous-improvement dept.
An anonymous reader writes in with an opinion piece from ZDNet Australia. "Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets yesterday: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October. Just like Microsoft has taken the blowtorch to Vista to produce the lightning-quick Windows 7, which so far runs well even on older hardware, Ubuntu has picked up its own game."

Comment Re:The arguments of olde - don't carry much weight (Score 1) 287

by stickystyle (#26459097) Attached to: DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters

Also if you have your UPS's in the server room you have one (or more) less heat generating step-down transformer.

When given the opportunity to design my current server room from scratch I got 208VAC into the room. But yes your correct, I do get some strange stares from people when they ask why all my PDU's have IEC-14 sockets (both to denote that this is not 'normal' 120VAC, and also so there is no live metal prongs exposed when plugging and unplugging devices).

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