about all the enterprise features they are putting or plan on putting in. I'm looking for the basics such as a VPN connection that will stay up longer than 5 minutes. Why doesn't it reconnect when it fails?

Yes we talked to Apple support and we couldn't get a resolution.

I second it.. I loved AC1... I liked AC2 until they started nerfing tactician... Yeah, I realize it was pretty powerful but it was a minority which took advantage of that class and forced the dev's to nerf it.

Honestly, i've been a Turbine customer before back in the Asheron's Call days. Secretly i'll even admit that I had the most fun of any MMORPG playing AC. Anyways, I noticed the ad saying DDO was free to play and I was going to install it.

Unless the company comes clean and offers a real answer, then there is no way i'll install DDO or any future game they make.

was because I wanted a blu-ray player and as an added bonus it played games and the online was free. If they started to charge for online multiple player there is no way I would pay for both the PS3 and Xbox. One would have to go... Since we are big Halo fans here I think I know which console would win.

Should the profits from blu-ray sales offset their losses? I've heard tho that blu-ray movie sales are poor as well.. I can understand why now that I have a blu-ray player. Upscaled DVD's are good enough and personally when I see a title in both DVD and Bluray at the store and the Bluray is 5-15+$ more, then I buy the DVD.

I have the option to switch from my blackberry to the iphone... the only thing holding me back is whether or not a new one will be announced next week... Would you buy now or wait? If the rumors are true, OLED, 5MP camera, flash but the ship date wasn't until June would you wait or just get it now?

I've worked for companies from 200-350,000 employee's. There are pro's and con's to working at both large and small companies.

Unfortunately bad management isn't exclusive to large companies as I've seen bad management at both. Larger companies tend to have more polices thanks to stupid regulations such as SOX. Chances are if they are large they are public.

Internal movement both lateral and vertical can be difficult with small companies. With larger companies there are plenty of opportunities in house which means you can move around without leaving the company. I have also found its easy to branch into new roles. If you have proven yourself then they know you'll ramp quickly and be able to produce. I always liked that. However, with smaller companies you have a better chance of becoming involved in making decisions that affect the company.

I'm at a small company now and its nice to have more control, not as much red tape because we aren't public, exposure to different technologies. With large companies you tend to be silo'd to your specific skillset. What I don't like is that the systems I manage are not as complex as they were in large companies. I enjoy working with highly available, critical environments where downtime can cost the company millions. On the other hand the job isn't as stressful and there's more family time.

With the type of work I do, in larger companies your usually in a group of similar people. The nice thing about this is that there are people to bounce ideas off, different sets of eyes when looking at a problem, others with more experience in certain areas. All this can provide you with more opportunities to learn.

Anyways, i'm sure we could go on for quite awhile generalizing about the pros/cons of working in both large and small companies. Personally I wouldn't rule out working for either. As long as the job is stimulating and provides me with opportunities to learn then i'll be happy. I tend to move on if things become stagnant.

I installed Ubuntu 8 on my kids computer and they loved it... I played about with it as well and liked it enough that once it came time to rebuild my linux box I decided to install 9.04... I have to say, i'm not impressed with 9.0.4... I have had issues with using the software manager to install new applications.. I miss the popular column and thought that was great. Switching to a static IP address wasn't straight forward... It seems that if you are the type of user that will just download it, install defaults and use it, then its fine. But as soon as you want to make changes, it started to get painful.

So for now i'm switching back to Fedora.. Something i'm familiar with and just seems to work.

Me either... Everytime I go to use my blackberry its usually rebooting...

netbook style devices for using the cloud and surfing the web. Hardware has come a long way over the past few years. Most home users use email and the web. I work in IT, I ssh, remote desktop or export my display and run things on the server pretty much all day. I could easily do most of my job from a netbook. The only downside is the physical size being too small. (I love my dual 20" monitors!)

If I look at how I use my personal computer at home, a netbook has enough power to handle about 90% of what I do. I stopped playing intensive games on my PC years ago and bought an xbox. I got tired of having to constantly upgrade it.. Spending 300$ on a console is much more bang for the buck. The only things I wouldn't want to do on a netbook is photo and video editing. My kids computer has a processor that was released in 2002 and it does everything they need it to do. I have an old computer with a celeron processor running my website on linux. Quite frankly, i'm running out of excuses to convince my wife I need a new computer every couple of years.

These devices won't replace your laptop or desktop in the foreseeable future but they are perfectly suited for those times where you don't want to carry them around. You just want something cheap, lightweight, long battery life but powerful enough to surf the web, check your email, edit some documents, remote desktop back to the office, etc.

Having something like Chrome OS, that is optimized to interface with the cloud can't lose. If it does lose, it will be to a competitor who was able implement it better.

The great thing about opensource is that if people don't like the direction Oracle takes MySQL, then they can simply fork it. So pointing out MySQL's competition, or that fact should be enough. It sounds like MySQL is the remaining hurdle.. If so, its pretty safe to say that the European Commission has no idea what they are doing.

Ignoring what may happen to the employees, Oracles track record for acquisitions speaks for itself. Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, etc are all still around and have been steadily improved upon since they have been acquired. I don't see why there would be anything different here. I can see Oracle using MySQL to lure people away from SQLServer and when they outgrow that then upsell them to their flagship database.

I don't see any reason why SAP should be involved.. MS, sure, but they are more than welcome to fork MySQL and 'sell' it themselves.

Seriously, which ones... Not being a troll.. I have a Wii but I haven't found any games that I have really enjoyed playing after a few days. My kids love the thing.

I think your missing the point.. While Might and Magic III's graphics were less superior than V's, they were more functional. Whats the point of having more realistic graphics if it performs like a dog or it impedes interaction with the environment?

I'll admit, I haven't followed MySQL that much but i'm confused as to the state its in now. With the original founders going off and doing related stuff it seems pretty fragmented.

Can someone piece it all together?

From the blog post, "had me sign a âoeYou have been trespassed by REI and canâ(TM)t go back for a yearâ"

Kinda goes against their response..

But the question is, how many VM's do you plan on running at once?

I installed a 2 Node RAC environment on Vmware using my laptop which was a 2Gz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of ram. (Instructions here )

So you don't need something super powerful if you don't plan on leaving them all running 24x7 and just startup the ones you are playing with at the time. A Quad core system with at least 4GB of ram should and lots of disk should be plenty.

I would stay away from running any of your environments on external USB drives. I have a 1 TB USB 2.0 drive and its too slow for anything heavy such as installing Oracle E-Business Suite.. However databases and RAC worked fine.

I've played around a fair bit with Oracle and VMware so if you have any questions feel free to ask.