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Comment: This is true elsewhere as well (Score 0) 375

by shm (#42113547) Attached to: Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias

I first got laid off a few weeks before my 40th after shipping a huge product (successfully) for an east coast company. The excuse was that I had ruffled way too many feathers while delivering it on schedule (i.e. the software process monkeys.)

Just got laid off again from a west coast company at the age of 45. This time my "job was relocated to East Europe."

I'm in Bangalore, India now, BTW. Speaks for itself.

Networking

+ - Single NIC Caused LAX Outage

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Billosaur
Billosaur writes "The LA Times is reporting that the cause of the great system outage at Los Angeles International Airport last week was the failure of a single network interface card (NIC). This caused a partial failure early Saturday afternoon that then cascaded throughout the system, leading to a total system failure by 2 pm, which was not corrected until 9 pm. Officials in Losa Angeles are calling for immediate action and Representative Jane Harman is calling for a briefing in Washington on the matter early next week."
Software

+ - Citrix to buy XenSource for $500m 1

Submitted by Penguinisto
Penguinisto writes "Apparently Citrix doesn't want to be left out in the cold when it came to Virtualization.So, it decided to snap up Xen Source in whole, with a combination of cash and stock. Question is, what impact exactly will this have on Linux as a whole? (Xen runs on/under Windows too, but Linux is arguably its biggest playground to date). Also, is this a defensive move on Citrix' part, given Microsoft's development of potential VMWare and Xen competitor Viridian?"
The Internet

Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing 42

Posted by Zonk
from the online-is-the-best-line dept.
eldavojohn writes "Random House & HarperCollins have agreed to allow book browsing and searching on all their books. According to the article, 'Book publishers are to trying to update their businesses as more young readers consume media via the Web, a trend that already has affected the music, movie and newspaper industries.' I am definitely looking forward to more publishers following suit. It's not that far of a stretch to imagine a person searching for a book, finding something else and then buying both books."
Windows

+ - It's official: Vista copy protection 100% cracked

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Slinky Sausage
Slinky Sausage writes "There's been a steady stream of 'sort of' cracks for Vista coming out of the piracy groups, but a crack has been released this morning by "Pantheon" which is doesn't avoid Vista's activation — it exploits it! Apparently despite the requirements for everyone including volume licence customers to activate, Microsoft built in the capability for OEM system builders to pre-install copies of Vista without activating it over the internet. The crack works on any Acer, HP, Lenovo, Hewlett Packard or custom machine (as long as you have the BIOS of that machine available)."

Comment: Parallels Desktop made my ITG guy think (Score 0) 230

by shm (#15850898) Attached to: Apple iPhone - To Be, or Not to Be?
He was at my desk bitching and moaning about the imac I bought to "test." Saw Parallels Desktop running WinXP, and I could see him rethinking his "corporate standard" spiel.

The fact that it has just three cables running out of it (power, USB keyboard, and network) makes a big difference as well.

An imac makes a great office desktop.

We'll be recording at the Paradise Friday night. Live, on the Death label. -- Swan, "Phantom of the Paradise"

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