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Comment Re:Office subscriptions? (Score 5, Insightful) 130

by dio5 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @09:30PM (#58948870) Attached to: Microsoft's Q4 Earnings and 2020 Expectations Are Through the Roof

I take it that you never had to manage an Exchange server then? When the boss's mailbox hits 20 GB, on prem thats an "oh shit" in O365 it's no problem boss. Plus managing an Exchnage farm sucks. MS is offering to do it at a fraction of the cost. There are other reasons too but from the IT Pro side it's I'll pay you to make this headache go away.

Comment Re:Wait - they can't dump it because of contaminan (Score 1) 203

by dio5 on Thursday February 03, 2011 @08:20PM (#35098696) Attached to: 1948 Mayor To MIT: Use Flamethrowers To Melt Snow?

Because the water that goes into the sewer system does not go straight into the river or the harbor. It first goes to a water treatment facility and then flows into the harbor. http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/03sewer/html/sewditp.htm

Ubuntu LTS Experiences X.org Memory Leak 320

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @04:25PM from the like-it-when-windows-crashed-more dept.

MonsterTrimble writes "Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 is experiencing a major memory leak due to patches for X.org. 'An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as it is left on, until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable. ... In order to make the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS deadline, the developers are looking at just reverting three of the patches, which brings the GLX version back to 1.2. Ubuntu developers are now desperate for people willing to test out this updated X.Org Server package so they can determine by this Friday whether to ship it with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or doing an early SRU (Stable Release Update). Right now this X.Org Server that's being tested is living in the ubuntu-x-swat PPA.'"

Brain Training Games Don't Train Your Brain 151

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @03:03PM from the maybe-it-just-takes-more-than-6-weeks dept.

Stoobalou writes with this excerpt from Thinq.co.uk: "A new study has shown that brain training games do little to exercise the grey matter. Millions of people who have been prodding away at their Nintendo DS portable consoles, smug in the knowledge that they are giving their brains a proper work-out, might have to rethink how they are going to stop the contents of their skulls turning into mush."

Seinfeld's Good Samaritan Law Now Reality? 735

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 29, 2010 @12:48AM from the not-that-there-is-anything-wrong-with-that dept.

e3m4n writes "The fictitious 'good samaritan' law from the final episode of Seinfeld (the one that landed them in jail for a year) appears to be headed toward reality for California residents after the house passed this bill. There are some differences, such as direct action is not required, but the concept of guilt by association for not doing the right thing is still on the face of the bill."

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