mqhiller - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Frost. (Score -1, Offtopic) 27

by mqhiller on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @07:03PM (#43605107) Attached to: Building New Materials With Light

Asshole.

Comment: VirtualBox Certainly (Score 5, Informative) 361

by mqhiller on Friday November 09, 2012 @07:33PM (#41937307) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner?

Easy to set up (I walked my brother through it over the phone) easy to use (ditto) and fairly full featured.

Comment: How does this differ (Score 2) 22

by mqhiller on Friday August 03, 2012 @05:39PM (#40873217) Attached to: The Rise of the Programmable Data Center

How does this differ from running OpsWare or BladeLogic and installing agents on all servers in the DC? That's how I've been doing it at last couple jobs.

Comment: Re:Photographic prints! (Score 1) 350

by mqhiller on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @02:29PM (#39931303) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos?

I second CVS. You can pick them up same day, or they can mail them to you.

Comment: Good! (Score 2) 577

by mqhiller on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:30PM (#39638965) Attached to: Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign

Too bad. I rather enjoyed watching the Republicans feeding upon each other. I am looking forward to Obama's 2012 victory.

Comment: Cameras (Score 1) 218

by mqhiller on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:13PM (#35646688) Attached to: Should Smartphones Be Allowed In Court?

Last time I was on Jury duty, I was told no cell phones. Apparently gangs were using the cameras to photo and intimidate witnesses.

Comment: Fraught with peril (Score 0) 156

by mqhiller on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @09:28PM (#34761054) Attached to: Apple Patent Hints at Net-Booting Cloud Strategy

I imagine a tech support nightmare for supporting the Gentle Users. It couid work OK for IT professionals. I don't see this for mobile devices for the unwashed masses however... mqh

Comment: D&D (Score 1) 162

by mqhiller on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @08:32AM (#32346960) Attached to: Where Were You When PLATO Was Born?

I was in High school in 1983, learning BAL on an IBM 370. I first used PLATO at UIUC in 1977, playing interactive D&Dgame. BTW, how is 1973 50 years ago?

Comment: Re:"new" old stuff (Score 1) 543

by mqhiller on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:35PM (#32081244) Attached to: How Old Is the Oldest Computer You Regularly Use?

ESS5 - the phone system.

+ - live band webcast 0

Submitted by mqhiller on Saturday December 26, 2009 @05:47PM

mqhiller writes "My local pub asked me if I could help them get band on the web as a webcast. We have comcast broadband.

I am thinking of using:

upstream.tv
logitech pro9000
maudir delta 44

I understand that I'll needs some adaptors to get between stage mics and the Delta v44,

any help/ideas/experience?"