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Comment WTF is the big deal? (Score 1) 353

by ka55ad (#34004694) Attached to: Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself
Sorry to be so blunt, but wtf is the big deal if I have to download it myself? As a SysAdmin, I actually much prefer that systems don't come with Flash pre-installed. First off it is a security hazard; it seems like the Windows version has an update every other week. Secondly, there are absolutely scenarios where I wouldn't want Flash on my system - this saves me the step of disabling it before locking down the system and deploying it. Third, if you install Windows XP *gasp* you have to go download the latest version of Flash. I haven't bothered to check to see if this is the case with Windows 7, so I won't comment on that. I much prefer to install only the software I want vs. having a bunch of 3rd party junkg pre-installed.
Wireless (Apple)

Macs With 3G — More Connectivity, More Problems 73

Posted by Soulskill from the multi-mobilization dept.
narramissic writes "In a recent blog post, Josh Fruhlinger muses on the possibility of 3G radio receivers turning up in future Mac notebooks (as foretold by Apple job postings and the mention of WWAN hardware in Snow Leopard beta releases). 'At first glance,' says Fruhlinger, 'this seems like a reasonably awesome idea.' But will the target market be willing to take on the additional telecom charge? 'And, more to the point,' he says, 'most of us have gotten accustomed to the idea of one Internet connection per household, shared with a wireless router. The latter idea could be covered by a router that connects to the Internet over a 3G connection — something like the MiFi hotspot. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple had such a thing in the pipeline, an Airport station (Airport Mobility?) that didn't need to be plugged into the wall. That would explain the search for 3G experts, anyway.'"
Businesses

Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? 321

Posted by timothy from the what-is-your-quest-please-press-one dept.
Nocts writes "I'm currently working for a moderately sized company that manages a large portion of its internal help desk questions through a Jabber-based chat room. What we're looking for instead is an open source, preferably Web-based solution that will give us the ability to have floor representatives queue questions and concerns in a similar fashion to BugTraq, directed at the help desk. Email capability would be preferred for elaboration of specific issues, but the more we can centralize everything into the queued system the better. Any recommendations and experiences? Just about any language is doable since I have the ability to configure and upgrade our servers and we're looking at about a user base of 100 people, with around 5-10 questions a minute."
Bug

How To Track the Bug-Trackers? 174

Posted by timothy from the and-what-if-they-have-a-bug dept.
schneecrash writes "Submitting bug reports — and waiting for responses etc. — seems to be SOP for developers and users alike, these days. Every project has some sort of bug-tracker — bugzilla, trac, mailing list, etc. E.g., we currently track 200+ external bugs across ~40 OSS projects. Half the bugs depend on something else getting fixed, first. Every bug has its own email thread, etc. Management asks 'How we doin' overall?,' and suddenly everyone involved gets to work removing dried gum from the bottom of their shoe. What do Slashdotters use/recommend for centrally keeping track of all the bugs you track across all those different bugtrackers? In particular, managing communications and dependencies across bugs? So far, the best method I've managed to use is bunches of PostIt-notes stuck to the screen of an out-of-commission 32" TV (glossy, non-matte screen, of course!)."
Earth

Birth of a New African Ocean 261

Posted by kdawson from the interesting-times-interesting-places dept.
Khemisty writes "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one no scientist has ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Africa is splitting apart at the seams. From the southern tip of the Red Sea southward through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, the continent is coming unstitched along a zone called the East African Rift." This stretching of the earth's crust has been going on for 20 million years, and within another 10 million the Red Sea will have broken through to create a new sea.

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