Comment Re:What do you expect? (Score 1) 470

by aureus620 on Friday October 29, 2010 @11:41AM (#34063254) Attached to: IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations

I think you're underestimating the amount of manpower/time it would take to migrate some legacy applications. Think more along the lines of 2+ years, and several dozen programmers. Now multiply that by half a dozen or so legacy applications. Suddenly virtualization isn't that bad of an option.

Comment Re:Linux has the same drag as Mac in business (Score 1) 1348

by aureus620 on Monday October 18, 2010 @12:42PM (#33934542) Attached to: Desktop Linux Is Dead

In all fairness, try finding -anything- specific at ibm.com. I've wasted entire days trying to find a download link for specific versions of websphere.

Comment Re:Reboot how? (Score 1) 536

by aureus620 on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @02:37PM (#30740734) Attached to: <em>Spider-Man 4</em> Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned

I think GP was referring to this: http://failblog.org/2010/01/10/avatar-plot-fail/

Comment Re:Work Experience (Score 1) 834

by aureus620 on Monday May 11, 2009 @02:51PM (#27910949) Attached to: Go For a Masters, Or Not?

Due to rampant ageism, and cruddy work-life balance issues, your career as a programmer is statistically over by the time you are maybe 35.

[Citation Needed]

Comment Re:IT is a customer service group (Score 2, Insightful) 576

by aureus620 on Thursday April 16, 2009 @06:06PM (#27604297) Attached to: Why IT Won't Power Down PCs

It takes 5 minutes to boot in the morning because you consider being able to open a browser and see your Facebook page the end of booting, past network logins, antivirus updates, the corporate IM tool, and everything else.

Call me crazy, but I'd call the time from powering on the machine to arriving at a usable UI a pretty good definition of booting.

Comment Re:mac != unix (Score 1) 699

by aureus620 on Friday April 03, 2009 @01:33PM (#27447973) Attached to: IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion

I'll grant you that OS X is UNIX-certified, but OS X is _not_ SVR4 UNIX.

That might be because OS X is from the BSD side of the family tree, not the System V side. It's not _supposed_ to be SVR4, or even like it. Both SysV and BSD are descendants of Unix, just with different heritage.

Comment Re:dvdisaster (Score 1) 303

by aureus620 on Thursday November 06, 2008 @04:51PM (#25666297) Attached to: How To Verify CD-R Data Retention Over Time?

Raid 5 isn't necessarily any more reliable than using a single drive for backup. If drives are from the same batch (as they are likely to be if you purchase a couple at a time), it is extremely likely that they will fail at around the same time. Recently, I've had that happen. 2 drives dying within a 5 hour period will quite happily wipe out your entire "secure" raid array.