Comment Tremendous! (Score 1) 233
I hereby promise to you Moonlight on any my Linux machines. So we're cool, right?
Comment Re:Google Enterprise Search (Score 1) 232
It's exactly whats he wants. In a shared Windows environment, it beats the native Outlook search speed handily and covers my organization's shared drive.
Actually, the search speed has saved my a few times in being able to reconstruct a problem and react accordingly.
Comment Re:And people bitch about British intrusiveness. (Score 1) 402
Your CC number -> dealer's paypal account?
That's what they call new efficiencies, I believe.
That's what they call new efficiencies, I believe.
Comment NaCl Mole? (Score 1) 264
That's a mole of sodium chloride, in grams, for the curious.
Can we at least have some pumpkin seed in that too?
Comment Re:KDE is actually repeating the CDE mistake (Score 1) 199
Which is perhaps why I find even the latest KDE pretty much unusable.
I want 3.x back!
I want 3.x back!
Comment In retrospect, probbaly not the best approach (Score 1) 739
Installed Debian testing on an old Dell and only had dial up at the time. Of course the Winmodem didn't work, so that meant a custom compile and fighting with getting a driver installed from Linuxant. AA lot of struggle and learning involved, but how do I keep the damn thing updated without tying up my phone line every evening? Through the magic of cron, pon, poff, I automagically had the it updating itself at 3 AM every day.
Wheeeh! The kids today have it easy.
Wheeeh! The kids today have it easy.
Comment Re:Thanks an effn lot (Score 2, Insightful) 296
Me too.
I am not happy about this development.
Comment Print Link (Score 1) 353
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Servers&articleId=9130538&taxonomyId=68
Does Slashdot get a cut of the advertising over at Computer World?
Does Slashdot get a cut of the advertising over at Computer World?
Comment Re: French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubunt (Score 1) 368
But have they saved more souls than Jesus? That could really put Ubuntu over the top in the OS war.
Comment Does Apple have a near-monopoly on phones? (Score 2, Insightful) 532
No.
So....No.
So....No.
Comment Re:Palm keeps falling flat? (Score 3, Informative) 300
Not sure if it is true in 2009, but 4 years ago:
Many, many medical and nursing students were required to have a Palm for running some handy med-apps.
Comment no more crapware? (Score 1) 126
So can I get a Gnome install without Gnibbles?
Submission + - The Next Solar Cycle May Have Begun (space.com)
Josh Fink writes: "As many of us know, the sun usually works on an 11 year cycle for extreme solar storms and flares. The last time that this cycle peaked was in 2001 and 2002. However, on December 11th, scientists began to observe a "modest knot of magnetism," and are saying this might be the signal for increased activity from our local star. From the article: 'This patch of magnetism could be a sign of the next solar cycle," said solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center. 'Solar minimum is upon us.'....Though forecasts vary wildly, some scientists predict Solar Cycle 24 will be intense. If so, 'it could have significant impacts on telecommunications, air traffic, power grids and GPS systems,' according to the NASA statement."
Submission + - Understanding Evolution Matters (blogspot.com)
Advocate123 writes: Scientists have just created synthetic DNA that is on the brink of creating new life forms. This is why Understanding Evolution matters.
Submission + - iPhone hacker trades work for fast car, job (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "George Hotz, the teenager from New Jersey who hacked the iPhone last week posted on his blog today that he traded the unlocked iPhone for "a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones" and a paid consulting gig.
Hotz said he reached a deal with CertiCell, a Louisville, Kentucky-based mobile phone repair company. "We do not have any plans on the table right now to commercialize Mr. Hotz' discovery. However, we are keenly interested in having Mr. Hotz assist our engineers in developing solutions to other software related challenges including software updating, reflashing and memory elimination of repaired and or refurbished cellular handsets," said Terry Daidone, co-founder of Certicell on the firm's Web Site.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18815"
