Comment Former countries (Score 2, Interesting) 958
Do you count countries that no longer exist? I have been to West Germany, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
Comment It really passed (Score 1) 512
I assumed that this was merely proposed and probably would not even get voted on but it actually passed.
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Date Chamber Action
2/3/2009 Senate Filed with Secretary
2/3/2009 Senate Referred to Assignments
2/10/2009 Senate Assigned to Executive
2/19/2009 Senate Be Adopted Executive; 012-000-000
2/19/2009 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of Secretary's Desk Resolutions February 20, 2009
2/26/2009 Senate Resolution Adopted
Comment VPN and Remote Desktop Connection (Score 1) 252
I have found that using VPN and Remote Desktop Connection to my office desktop is a fairly easy way to work from home.
Journal Journal: Just to annoy ya I am going to run it in a Chroot 1
I installed debian on my server a few days ago... that was fun. After I got through the downloading that is expected I went to install webmin... apt-get install webmin ... no... apt-get install webmin-core .... no again. So I wget the damn webmin configuration and install it. Then I restore my DNS configuration through it. But guess what? It can't use it as debian have gone out of their way to move EVERYTHING around. I mean EVERYTHING. It was impossible to sta
Financials Indicate Microsoft Prepping for War 349
SpaceAdmiral writes "Microsoft has surprised analysts by forecasting significantly higher expenses in the next fiscal year, an indication that the company might be getting ready to do battle with its online rivals. According to analyst Eugene Munster of Piper Jaffray, 'It looks like Microsoft is going to war with Google.'" From the article: "According to Mark Stahlman of Caris & Company, the fact that Microsoft plans to spend significantly more in 2007 was an indication of renewed aggressiveness in its competitive strategy and an indication that the company was returning to the kind of actions it exhibited before the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit in the mid- and late 1990's. 'It's pretty clear that Bill is running the company again,' Mr. Stahlman said, referring to Bill Gates, 'and they are going to remake the business. They are being much more combative and much more strategically managed.'"
