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Comment: I was going to say Microwaves, but... (Score 1) 447

by VIPERsssss (#42066441) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey?
My son pointed out that the geekiest way would be to trick your Professor into stealing your high-energy laser experiment and sell it to the government. Then you sneak on the military base and reprogram the targeting computer to fire at the Professor's house where you have, conveniently, placed your giant turkey.

Comment: SysWOW64 (Score 2) 313

by VIPERsssss (#41967909) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012?

I've gotten some cranky Win32 apps to work on Win7 64 by getting the 32-bit dll files in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 folder instead of C:\Windows\System32.

The naming conventions don't make any damn sense; they should have kept System32 for 32-bit files and created System64 for 64-bit files. But that's just me.

Comment: Re:Unionize (Score 1) 630

by VIPERsssss (#41358777) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far?
As someone who as worked in a family owned manufacturing business that was shut down, in part, by union influence... I absolutely agree that IT workers need to unionize. I don't say it lightly. I fucking hate unions. I've also seen how IT is the first on the cutting block when a company is failing (and will continue to fail from that point). The biggest problem is the Nick Burns certificate queens that make us all look bad. Figure that one out and you'll have a more perfect union.

"If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it..." -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Forbidden Tower_

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