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Comment: Re:Let me guess...further deprecation of desktop a (Score 3, Interesting) 199

by Wolfraider (#42954583) Attached to: Report: Windows Blue Reaches Its First Milestone Build
I have met a few people excited about the Metro screen. But these people barely know how to use a computer and to them, Metro is a lot easier to find what programs they want to run. I personally don't mind Windows 8 and Metro although the first thing I did was set the default for all Metro apps to the full version and pin my most used programs to the taskbar. Any time that I need another program, I simply hit the windows key, type in the first few characters of what I want and hit enter. Metro pops up and goes away quickly.

Comment: Re:How did this happen? (Score 1) 192

by Wolfraider (#42696035) Attached to: Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google
I can't remember the name of it but there is some big library software that requires printers with public IP addresses. The printers sit at the clients site but are configured on the companies servers directly. They recommend that no firewall is configured because it might interfere with the print jobs. I only found out because I had to replace a Jet-direct card that was hosed. They finally started allowing printing to locally attached printers last year but most setups are still the old way.

Comment: Electrical Fingerprint (Score 1) 167

by Wolfraider (#42260225) Attached to: Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime
Form what it looks like to me, they are using the random increases and decreases to create a sort of "fingerprint" of the recording. This fingerprint could then be used to verify that the recording is genuine at any other time. It would be very hard to duplicate the random noise in a recording exactly if you tried to tamer with the recording.

+ - Pano Logic has closed its doors->

Submitted by Wolfraider
Wolfraider writes "Just a few months ago, Pano Logic, an enterprise tech startup seemed to be have a bright future replacing oldfashioned PCs with up-to-the-minute cloud technology.

Today, the company has shut down, its leaders have vanished, and its customers have been left hanging.

The company's PR team has confirmed to Business Insider that Pano is out of business. No more details."

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