Comment Re:Arcosanti II, anyone? (Score 1) 313
There's already a Bellemont, AZ. No one will be confused by a slightly different spelling,
Comment Re:White Hat (Score 1) 307
I've seen this specious argument posted many times. It is just that, however: specious. The Public has no ownership interest in government property.
This came up in a different discussion I was having this week. Arizona has what's called Trust Land. It belongs to the state (people) and is fenced off with no trespassing signs.
Comment Re:Law was clear that Americans shouldn't be spied (Score 1) 367
But can Apple break the laws of physics (or math)?
A judge can order me to levitate but, at least for now, this is not possible due to the laws of physics.
Comment Re:These are good points, but (Score 0, Troll) 367
Oh, I thought we were bashing Obama here. Instead you started talking about Trump
Comment Re:Another reason to ban rifles (Score 1) 1134
No, it's another reason to relax gun laws. Making it easier for non-criminals to own and carry firearms would make the country a safer place.
People who intend to commit crimes with guns would think twice or scrap their plan entirely if they knew that everyone else had guns too. Nobody is going to pull a gun when they know that by doing so they'll have a hundred guns pointed at their head.
Sounds like they wouldn't have worried about it in this case, they shot up a bunch of special needs adults who would never own guns anyway.
Comment Re:Maybe botnet members should be held responsible (Score 1) 90
Centurylink - a company with plenty of reasons to hate it - will restrict internet access from machines deemed to be running malware until you talk to them and fix it.
Comment Re:Will it tunnel applications? (Score 0) 164
This is how I do it.
Comment Re:This one thing is unlike the other (Score 1) 67
Boards themselves are elected by the shareholders. That in and of itself is probably enough to guarantee that a board member is not a techie. The IT expert is probably going to be hired on person - who may conflict with the CTO...
Comment Re:Consider TeamViewer instead. (Score 1) 173
I had trouble getting TeamViewer running on a Debian box. It wasn't worth the time to figure out what was wrong as it worked on a Windows machine.
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 487
But we want to control it at the router, by setting a password. Maybe it's indirect, but anytime someone gets close they get the password if some other person clicked (or left checked) the box sharing the password.
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 487
It's like asking how to keep people you didn't invite out of your house. Really, you are unqualified to admin any network.
It's more like asking how do I keep people out of my house when they all have a copy of the key that I gave to one person.
Comment Re:Not a bad price (Score 1) 192
With the pool of XP users dropping dramatically who is researching and finding the bugs for MS to fix? Do we (now) have to wait for breaches before anyone knows there's a bug?
Comment Re:Maybe, but you won't make it past HR (Score 1) 255
Excel is pretty good at doing a quick sanity check on a CSV before handing it to an importer. These tools would not have survived as long as they have or be considered as indispensable as they are without being at least marginally useful.
Only if you only use the comma to separate your fields. I use an export from a database that has commas in the fields so I use the pipe (|) as my delimiter. Excel will not properly open that csv file and will only split the fields on the commas. Open/Libre Office let me select the delimiter - best feature ever.
Untrue. Excel will open a text file using any symbol of your choice as a delimiter. Maybe old versions didn't use to be able to or something.
2010 doesn't and doesn't give you the options that I can tell. And I don't control the version.
Comment Re:Zombies or fail over? (Score 2) 107
I've been in IT Management for 15+ and I can assure you it is a good thing you are not in management. I would lose my job in a heartbeat if production server decided to take a dump and I had shut off all our fail-over servers.
It's not just a matter of what those fail-over servers costs. It's the question "Can we afford (financially) to NOT have fail-over servers?". If you stand to lose more due to a production server failure than the cost of running a fail-over for a year then you will not EVER wish to be caught without one.
How is it a failover server if no data has traveled into or out of the machine in six months? Wouldn't you want to keep a failover server up to date (data and software updates) so you don't notice the failover? What good is a failover server if you have to load six months of data from tape? The machine could be off until you need it in that case.
Comment Re:Maybe, but you won't make it past HR (Score 1) 255
Excel is pretty good at doing a quick sanity check on a CSV before handing it to an importer. These tools would not have survived as long as they have or be considered as indispensable as they are without being at least marginally useful.
Only if you only use the comma to separate your fields. I use an export from a database that has commas in the fields so I use the pipe (|) as my delimiter. Excel will not properly open that csv file and will only split the fields on the commas. Open/Libre Office let me select the delimiter - best feature ever.
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