Comment Re:Not that it matters ... (Score -1, Flamebait) 505
Oh, and a few inches (or feet) of ocean won't bother me. I have no beach property, nor do I intend to. Last I checked, I'm about 950 feet above sea level..
Comment Not that it matters ... (Score -1, Flamebait) 505
So what? It hasn't been there forever. See, there's a natural progression on the planet. Warm. Cold. Warm. Cold. It's warming up, BFD.
Now, I'm gunna drive my SUV 65 miles to work tomorrow and feel ok about it.
Comment Novell? (Score 1) 194
Ok, here goes.
Novell couldn't sell ice water in the desert to a man dying of thirst. They couldn't hardly give it to them.
Have you seen Groupwise 8? More functionality than M$ Outlook / Exchange
Netware 6.5 -- yeah a little long in the tooth, but I have servers that are 1-2 years
SLES
I emailed Hovespain and told him
but Novell can't market..
Comment OSTicket (Score 1) 321
How about an extremely lightweight, small but easy to use product. Has pre-canned answers (so you can select a canned answer, hit the button and you're done). Has email capability to open tickets, and when you reply to them -- it sends an email back.
We use it, but are a small 3 person help desk
Comment Re:Just reset your clock (Score 1) 842
I saw a Simplex (building managment) terminal the other day - it (STILL) runs WFW 3.11
Comment Re:750g (Score 1) 452
Couldn't tell you what it is. This is the 3rd install of windows, it was like that with Ubuntu, too.
Second motherboard, second power supply, second SATA cable.
Only "same" thing is the drive..
Comment 750g (Score 1) 452
I have a Seagate Barracuda 750g in this computer now. It's probably got to be the WORST drive I've ever had..
My previous drive was a WD that had a 16mb cache, designed for RAID, blah blah. It freaking rocked speedwise, until it barfed and made it so that I could not access the data any longer. So not trusting WD any more, I bought Seagate. Wow, what a MISTAKE!!! Windows 7 reports a WIM score of 2.0 on it.
From HDTune
10.0mb/sec minimum
66.4mb/sec maximim
58.4mb/sec average
13.5ms Access Time
110.1 Burst
Comment Re:Expected (Score 1) 1654
OpenOffice is a perfect replacement for Word.
No, it is not a perfect replacement for Word. The organization that I consult for just replaced most of their MS Office with OOo 3.0.
They are a county government, and thus have many, many standardized state forms, as well as custom content developed by people ages ago. Open these things up in OOo and they are a total and complete mess.
One Excel document, which is used extensively around here (employee performance) is automated to the point of where it incorporates the required procedural methods to be completed if the employee were to receive neutral to bad on any of the job assessments (radio buttons / etc). It took more than half a day to fix just that one sheet to work and look as it used to.
We made the transition, but it's not perfect. It's a lot of damn work.
Comment Shell Scripting (Score 1) 844
Shell scripting: Athiesm. There is no language
Submission + - Microsoft Revokes Free Software Offer
robpoe writes: In a turn of events from a previous story, Microsoft has revoked the offer of free Windows Vista, Office 2007 — saying their supplies of the software has run out (make more?!). However, you can still download their little monitoring tool, to collect data on your usage.
Could this be a wonderful new way of getting users to install spyware? Create the buzz, revoke all offers as of the day before it hit the news sites, and get people to install spyware anyway?
Guess I'll be uninstalling that little bugger tomorrow. If I have to run M$ software, I'll help them if they want to help me. Otherwise, spend your Billions of dollars helping yourself..
Could this be a wonderful new way of getting users to install spyware? Create the buzz, revoke all offers as of the day before it hit the news sites, and get people to install spyware anyway?
Guess I'll be uninstalling that little bugger tomorrow. If I have to run M$ software, I'll help them if they want to help me. Otherwise, spend your Billions of dollars helping yourself..
Submission + - Depression is elevated among women engineers
yali writes: A U.S. government survey of depression rates by job category has revealed some interesting results. The headlines are about food service and healthcare providers, who perhaps unsurprisingly have the highest depression rates. But buried in the official report is an interesting split. When the data are separated by gender, engineering is the least-depressing job for men. But it has one of the higher depression rates for women (fifth-highest among 17 job categories). Although women are generally at greater risk for depression, that does not fully explain the difference. 3.3% of male engineers have a major depressive episode per year (versus 4.7% of men overall). By comparison, the rate is 11.1% for women engineers (versus 10.1% overall). Is the engineering workplace an especially depressing place for women?
Submission + - Technology work for charity
Trilobyte writes: I want to get involved in my community to do some good and make a difference. You know, something along the lines of Habitat for Humanity. But while I can't build or maintain a house, I sure can build or maintain the heck out of a computer. So I'm wondering, Slashdot: what is a good way for me to get started volunteering my technological services to charities in my midsized, midwestern town, to ideally do some good?
Submission + - What bugs us on Earth gets worse in space... (go.com)
Ant writes: "ABC News (one print page) says space invaders have colonized the International Space Station (ISS).
When astronaut Peggy Whitson moves into the orbiting laboratory today for a six-month stay, she'll have two human roommates — as well as countless ones invisible to the naked eye, from microbes that can corrode metal to germs that can cause serious infections in people.
Outer space is a cold and sterile place, but spaceships are not. As the 9-year-old space station ages, it's likely to grow more micro-organisms that could pose a risk to its human residents and the station itself. Adding an extra worry, scientists have seen signs that the human immune system weakens during space trips.
"Wherever man goes, microbes go," says Cheryl Nickerson of Arizona State University, who studies disease-causing micro-organisms. Most of the bugs in orbit aren't dangerous, she says, but "there's absolutely a risk ... to the crew." In a study published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nickerson found that salmonella bacteria turned deadlier after a few weeks in space. The bacteria rode into orbit as an experiment aboard National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s space shuttle Discovery in 2006...
Seen on Blue's News."
