Comment: Never??? (Score 4, Funny) 161
Actually, I always try to be first to break out the jargon. I find it makes the C*O's eyes glaze over, and the meeting is cut short.
That's a win for me.
Comment: Re:Easily fixed (Score 1) 218
Where oh where are my mod points when I really need them?
+ - SPAM: The 2013 Kia Forte
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+ - Sharpen the Python Saw or Die Trying->
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An anonymous reader writes "Improve your Python skills before the end of the Mayan calendar."
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Comment: Obligatory ref (Score 0) 226
Comment: reliably? (Score 4, Interesting) 226
I wonder.... will it be fooled if images are converted to/from lossy formats a few times.....
Comment: Not soon (Score 1) 417
Management may think they're going to make the switch, but when it comes to actually doing it, it'll prove to cost more in terms of effort than they'll save on licensing. There's a hell of a lot more to VMWare than just the virtualization of servers, and it doesn't take a propeller-head to effectively use the tools. Can the same be said of the alternatives?
Comment: Statistics (Score 0) 290
Warning: 4 out of 5 statements of "fact" from Microsoft are completely made up.
Comment: Delayed? (Score 2) 222
Well is anyone _really_ surprised at this? If I were publishing this, I'd announce a delay even if it was on-schedule, just for the added publicity.
Comment: Re:elephant in the room -- MOD PARENT UP! (Score 3, Interesting) 336
Mod parent up, please. Why is this glaringly obvious solution NEVER discussed?
Comment: Vacuously true (Score 1) 410
That can be said of nearly every invention since fire: no users, no problems.
Comment: Re:Oh For Chrissakes (Score 1) 466
I find it amusing that some people think that a nation's defense research organisation, which helps build ICBMs, supersonic aircraft, tactical software and so on, needs advice from someone who reading slashdot on how to write an operating system.
Eh? It's their history in such areas that convinced me they could screw up Water Soup with a recipe from Alton Brown.
Comment: Collapsed?!?!? (Score 1) 294
If all we find are collapsed ones, what makes them think the uncollapsed ones are safe?
+ - Interesting data from the YouTube outage->
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superapecommando writes "YouTube continues to fascinate people, even when nobody is able to watch it.
A revealing data nugget has turned up from the Internet department of Arbor Networks on the effect (or lack of it) of yesterday’s well-publicised YouTube ‘outage’.
The interruption was relatively brief — perhaps an hour and a half — which turns out to correspond to a measurable drop in Google Internet traffic seen by the company across a random sample of 50 small and mid-size ISPs spread across the world."
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A revealing data nugget has turned up from the Internet department of Arbor Networks on the effect (or lack of it) of yesterday’s well-publicised YouTube ‘outage’.
The interruption was relatively brief — perhaps an hour and a half — which turns out to correspond to a measurable drop in Google Internet traffic seen by the company across a random sample of 50 small and mid-size ISPs spread across the world."
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Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release 984
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from the stay-above-the-belt dept.
from the stay-above-the-belt dept.
CyberDragon777 writes "Ubuntu's future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other operating systems using binary prefixes, Ubuntu currently represents 1 kB (kilobyte) as 1024 bytes (base-2). But starting with 10.10, a switch to SI prefixes (base-10) will denote 1 kB as 1000 bytes, 1 MB as 1000 kB, 1 GB as 1000 MB, and so on."