Comment They should have (Score 1) 79
They should have used Xen or VMware for the financial industry.
Comment Activation Servers Down (Score 1) 186
The Windows/Office Activation servers are REALLY flakey this morning. Was not able to activate one copy of Office.
Comment Re:Even Lynx had problems, so.... (Score 1) 214
Actually, that should be "nc" not "netcat"...
Submission + - Is Windows Vista in trouble?
Ken Erfourth writes: I'm a small computer shop owner, and I have noticed how little interest my customers have in Windows Vista. Now, the Inquirer.net is running a story about what they consider two powerful indications that Vista is failing in the marketplace.
One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista.
Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?
One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista.
Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?
Feed Obesity Crisis Hits Crematoriums (sciencedaily.com)
Crematoriums are struggling to deal with spiraling numbers of stouter clients as the UK's obesity crisis grows, local government leaders are warning.
You Too Can Be An Amazon Bestseller 73
Steve1960 writes "For $10,000 to $15,000, you, too, can be a best-selling author — on Amazon.com. Here's a cautionary tale on how easy it is to game Amazon's sales ranking numbers, and why authors who pay for this might be wasting their money. 'The targeted marketing campaigns contribute volatility to sales-ranking numbers that are inherently unstable. Outside the top 1% or so of books, few sell multiple copies a day, so little separates books with rankings tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, apart. Morris Rosenthal, an author and publisher based in Springfield, Mass., who has studied the Amazon charts, says a day without a sale can send a book ranked 10,000 to as low as 50,000.'"
