Comment Malicious (Score 0) 113

by ePlus on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:35AM (#37588944) Attached to: Facebook Adds Malicious Link Protection

Does facebook.com come up as malicious?

Comment I donated (Score 0) 186

by ePlus on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:46AM (#37399590) Attached to: Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS

I can happily say that I have donated whatever money I had spare in my PayPal account that I was unable to withdraw at the time.

Hopefully Medvedev can go ahead and sponsor this project and give it a much needed boost!

Though a couple of years ago ReactOS had to be suspended due to stealing code allegations.

Comment Bonus too (Score 0) 727

by ePlus on Saturday March 13, 2010 @05:33PM (#31466852) Attached to: Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive?

And let's not forget the commission that a audiologist gets for selling the products! I have spoken to one who got as high as 30% of the total sale in commission!!

Comment No Fly = Refun? (Score 0) 821

by ePlus on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @07:10AM (#30993214) Attached to: "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester

So if I am one of the unlucky ones and get "randomly" picked for a scan... And if I refuse, do I get a refund? Do I get put on a terror watch list?

Submission + - How do IT guys get respect and not become BOFHs? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @12:09AM

An anonymous reader writes: I work for a small software company (around 60 people) as the sole IT guy. It's my first time in a position like this and after about 1.5 years I'm starting to get a bit of burnout. I try to be friendly, helpful and responsive and I get no respect whatsoever. Users tend to be flat out rude when they have a problem, violate our pretty liberal policies constantly, and expect complex projects to be finished immediately upon requesting them. My knee-jerk reaction is to be a bastard, although I've avoided it up to this point. It's getting harder. For those of you who have been doing this a lot longer, how do you get a reasonable level of respect from your users while not being a jerk?

Comment Re:Out-of-the-box is overrated (Score 0) 511

by ePlus on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @08:40AM (#25553223) Attached to: What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10

The extra options which you require that are on Windows but not on Ubuntu are available from the drivers which are released by the manufacturers.

If the manufacturer does not provide similar drivers for Linux that are also in Windows, then it is nothing the Linux developers can do. Reinventing the wheel won't help either.

The more people contact the manufacturers asking for better drivers for their Linux distribution the better.