Comment Re:Frost. (Score -1, Offtopic) 27

by mqhiller on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @07:03PM (#43605107) Attached to: Building New Materials With Light

Asshole.

Comment VirtualBox Certainly (Score 5, Informative) 361

by mqhiller on Friday November 09, 2012 @07:33PM (#41937307) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner?

Easy to set up (I walked my brother through it over the phone) easy to use (ditto) and fairly full featured.

Comment How does this differ (Score 2) 22

by mqhiller on Friday August 03, 2012 @05:39PM (#40873217) Attached to: The Rise of the Programmable Data Center

How does this differ from running OpsWare or BladeLogic and installing agents on all servers in the DC? That's how I've been doing it at last couple jobs.

Comment Re:Photographic prints! (Score 1) 350

by mqhiller on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @02:29PM (#39931303) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos?

I second CVS. You can pick them up same day, or they can mail them to you.

Comment Good! (Score 2) 577

by mqhiller on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:30PM (#39638965) Attached to: Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign

Too bad. I rather enjoyed watching the Republicans feeding upon each other. I am looking forward to Obama's 2012 victory.

Comment Cameras (Score 1) 218

by mqhiller on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:13PM (#35646688) Attached to: Should Smartphones Be Allowed In Court?

Last time I was on Jury duty, I was told no cell phones. Apparently gangs were using the cameras to photo and intimidate witnesses.

Comment Fraught with peril (Score 0) 156

by mqhiller on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @09:28PM (#34761054) Attached to: Apple Patent Hints at Net-Booting Cloud Strategy

I imagine a tech support nightmare for supporting the Gentle Users. It couid work OK for IT professionals. I don't see this for mobile devices for the unwashed masses however... mqh

Comment D&D (Score 1) 162

by mqhiller on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @08:32AM (#32346960) Attached to: Where Were You When PLATO Was Born?

I was in High school in 1983, learning BAL on an IBM 370. I first used PLATO at UIUC in 1977, playing interactive D&Dgame. BTW, how is 1973 50 years ago?

Comment Re:"new" old stuff (Score 1) 543

by mqhiller on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:35PM (#32081244) Attached to: How Old Is the Oldest Computer You Regularly Use?

ESS5 - the phone system.

Comment in perl (Score 1) 516

by mqhiller on Monday November 10, 2008 @10:45AM (#25703665) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks?

I like:

scalar s/\|/\|/g;

returns number of vertical bar ('|') characters in the variable $_.

mqh

Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund 372

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @11:06AM from the show-us-the-check-dave dept.

scottv67 writes "Dell today gave freelance programmer and sysadmin Dave Mitchell, of Sheffield, UK, a refund of 47 pounds ($89) for the unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 bundled with his new Dell Inspiron 640m laptop, Mitchell says. Dell also refunded the tax, for a total of £55.23 ($105)."

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