Clete2 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Its the monopoly stupid (Score 1) 605

by Clete2 on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @02:36PM (#26214129) Attached to: Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs

It is NEVER a good time to have the government intervene and split up a company. Ever watch what happened to AT&T? 20 (or so) years ago, our brilliant government decided to split them into a bunch of pieces. Now, look, they have bought back all of their subsidiaries and are now as they were 20 years ago. They, like Microsoft, succeeded in their trade. They are back now to what they were 20 years ago. Splitting Microsoft is the worst possible thing that could happen. You may not like them, but the government only messes things up. Intervention NOT needed.

Comment Re:Your search - lolcats - did not match any docum (Score 1) 355

by Clete2 on Thursday October 02, 2008 @12:11AM (#25229063) Attached to: Google, Circa 2001

No, I haven't. Ever since I deleted my MySpace account (that I only had for ~1 month) a few years back, I have 100% refused to visit MySpace for any reason.

Submission + - Where in the US can you get JUST a Cell Phone? 6

Submitted by arakon on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @07:48PM

arakon writes: I am looking around for a cell phone for my technically challenged mother and all she wants is just a phone, and yet there seem to be no carriers in the US that carry a plain cell phone with good reception and battery life. All of them bundle camera's, pda's, mp3 players and a kitchen sink with a battery life of 2 hours, all for the low price of $350 or more...

Having looked around, the Motorola F3 is exactly what she wants but it doesn't seem to be available in the US. If we order it online will it work on US carriers? Are there any comparable products out there with a similar feature set and price range available for US networks? I appreciate the help.

Submission + - Red Hat Linux gets top government security rating

Submitted by

zakeria

on Monday June 18, 2007 @12:05AM

zakeria writes: "Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies. Earlier this month IBM was able to achieve EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, putting it on a par with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Trusted Solaris operating system, said Dan Frye, vice president of open systems with IBM."

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