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Comment: Re:Tell them to reimburse you (Score 2) 1307

by Bakasama (#35856996) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server?

Tell them that the second they reimburse you for the server they can not only get a login, but they can become responsible for its maintenance and security and they had better be sure it has a solid uptime. That only seems reasonable. :-)

Nope, I'd just quietly get the MAC and blacklist it. No network traffic for you. If I'm asked to buy a CalDAV server, I'll buy real server hardware and run it in a real server room. Not under some guy's desk where the custodial staff can kick the cable.

If you're feeling REALLY confident about your value to the hospital, feel free to bet on your clout. But if that's the case, Management probably would have paid for the server if you asked.

Comment: Re:Uhh... what? (Score 1) 668

by Bakasama (#25668887) Attached to: iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition

but the iTunes Library is your music manager, not your OS folders. Treat it that way and monitoring a folder becomes irrelevant.

That ideal breaks down quick when you have multiple devices that share a central 'library'. If even one of those devices isn't capable of interfacing with iTunes with it's own protocol, letting iTunes 'manage' your media goes out the window.

If iTunes does it for you, great. But plz don't get hurt because it doesn't work for everybody.

Data Storage

SSD, good or bad?->

Submitted by
javipas
javipas writes "A couple of weeks ago Slashdot pointed out a theoretical problem with SSD technology: the review of several SSD units from Tom's Hardware Guide made them suggest that the power consumption, always considered to be lower than tradicional hard drive counterparts, was surprisingly bigger. These units reduced battery life on their tests, and make THG conclude that "our results are definitely correct". Several users and experts were doubtful about these conclusions, and in fact they were right. Tom's Hardware has apologized for that previous article, confirming that they "made a procedural mistake" and have tested again some new drives with new benchmarks and scenarios more suitable to these drives. The results are now quite logical: SSD technology allows to win (by a small margin) HDDs on battery life, and according to several reports and comments from industry leaders, the situation will improve in the near future."
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Power

SSD Efficiency Gains Over Standard HDD Aren't

Submitted by Bakasama
Bakasama writes "Tom's Hardware compared the power performance of several available SSD cards with a Rotating HDD that was chosen specifically for its poor power efficiency.
The results seem to fly in the face of current wisdom.

"Flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) are considered to be the future of performance hard drives, and everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. We are no exception, as we have been publishing many articles on flash-based SSDs during the last few months, emphasizing the performance gains and the potential power savings brought by flash memory. And there is nothing wrong with this, since SLC flash SSDs easily outperform conventional hard drives today (SLC = single level cell). However, we have discovered that the power savings aren't there: in fact, battery runtimes actually decrease if you use a flash SSD.""
Microsoft

Microsoft Buys Powerset->

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snydeq
snydeq writes "Microsoft and Powerset today confirmed that Microsoft will purchase the semantic-search startup. The news comes on the heels of a report from Yahoo that a Microsoft deal would have put Yahoo search out of business, given Microsoft's inability to monetize search. Powerset is currently testing a search engine that attempts to understand the meaning of Web pages, in part using technology licensed from Xerox's PARC subsidiary. That technology creates a semantic representation of Web pages by parsing each sentence and extracting its meaning. 'Microsoft shares our goal to improve search through deeper analysis of queries and documents, and understands that our technology and expertise will play a key role in the evolution of search,' Powerset's Mark Johnson said. Powerset team will join Microsoft's Search Relevance team"
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The Internet

China Says No More Internet Cafes

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes "For many Chinese, internet access just got a little bit harder to acquire. For better or for worse, China will not be allowing anymore internet cafes to open this year. There are 113,000 internet cafes in China which serve as connection points for communities where personal internet connections are clearly not within the means given an average income. Considering recent stories and trends the Chinese government is taking, they aren't fooling around with 'protecting' their people from the 'forbidden fruit' of the internet."
Music

RIAA going after Internet Radio

Submitted by scopius
scopius writes "As reported this morning in The Wall Street Journal, the RIAA is now pushing Congress to hike royalty rates for Internet Radio. Tim Westergreen, co-founder of Pandora.com, claims that this action will shut down Pandora, along with many other internet radio stations. The rates set by the board are .08 cents per song per listener, and this rate is in addition to royalties already paid to the songwriters of the works. Up until this point, these stations had been paying a flat fee, but these new rates will be much larger than revenues for most stations. One interesting point is that normal radio doesn't have to pay anything like this rate, they only pay the songwriters royalties, according to the article."

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