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Comment: Re:Koha? (Score 1) 188

by Guiness17 (#38599170) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Tech For Small Library Automation?
Koha is something I use everyday at my small town library. It is a great resource for a library that needs to be tied to other libraries for cataloguing etc. As hazem said it would be overkill for sure. But for a one off collection I would suggest Winnebago Spectrum. I have also used that system in another library and it was the perfect thing to manage a small collection, and is used quite frequently by school libraries.

Comment: Re:Not much of a surprise (Score 1) 492

by Guiness17 (#27231197) Attached to: Office Depot Employee — "We Changed Prices Too"
What you maybe don't realize is that most companies don't handle their own rebates. They sell them to a rebate company, whose best interest it is to not pay them out - and they don't have to worry about the end effect near so much. It's like the 'don't pay a cent' events at furniture stores. They sell the account, and you have to deal with a nasty credit agency - and if you do default, it's not pretty.

Comment: Re:Sometimes You Have To Be There (Score 2, Insightful) 388

by Guiness17 (#26798815) Attached to: Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted
Indeed. Back in the day [/old gravely voice] when I was with Bell Northern Research it was primarily mainframes and Sun Sparcs on the network.

PC's were just starting first being commonly connected. People were writing their own network stacks. Inevitably, someone would write a bad one, install it on a couple of machines, and a broadcast storm would result.

Which meant someone from our group would go over with a pair of sidecutters...

Comment: Re:A virus I'd actually fall for (Score 5, Interesting) 207

by Guiness17 (#26727855) Attached to: Malware Spreading Via ... Windshield Fliers?
Agreed, I could've fallen for this myself. I got a ticket about a year ago in a city I didn't live in, and lo and behold, it had a website on it for paying online. Ticket looked official, but on second thought, I couldn't be sure, having never seen one from that city before. I blindly typed in the URL... I'd like to believe I would have picked off a phishing scam, but still, I took the first step.

Comment: Re:I'm in Canada...the web is the only way for us (Score 1) 286

by Guiness17 (#26716651) Attached to: Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads
Ok, that ad is without a doubt the funniest damn thing I've seen in a while. If you like it, you have to like the ol' Mel Lastman commercials for Bad Boy furniture as well - and this guy became the mayor of Toronto! Here's an example
NOOOOBODY!

to the OP - yes, simcasting sucked this year, and last. Frito Lay seems to buy about half the airtime.

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