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Comment Too many ads (Score 0) 122

by s2r on Monday September 16, 2013 @07:30PM (#44868057) Attached to: Game Preview: <em>Firefall</em> (video)

Two ads before watching the review? Bye, stop wasting my time.

Comment Won't matter (Score 0) 180

by s2r on Friday August 09, 2013 @10:21PM (#44527889) Attached to: Deutsche Telekom Moves Email Traffic In-Country In Wake of PRISM

The metadata will still be collected as soon as the email leaves the smtp server unencrypted.

Comment Red Fish (Score 0) 294

by s2r on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @09:13AM (#40904379) Attached to: The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee

It gives you fins!

Comment what about costs? (Score 0) 244

by s2r on Saturday December 03, 2011 @06:28PM (#38252998) Attached to: Carrier IQ Drama Continues

If CIQ is found guilty what would happen with the extra costs people paid while sending all that information without its knowledge?

Comment Re:Wrestling now (Score 0) 742

by s2r on Friday February 25, 2011 @05:26PM (#35316876) Attached to: Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi?

More likable than Vala? I don't think so.

How Do You Create Config Files Automatically? 113

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 11, 2009 @05:03PM from the hire-7-new-admins dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When deploying new server/servergroup/cluster to your IT infrastructure, deployment (simplified) consist of following steps: OS installation: to do it over network, boot server must be configured for this new server/servergroup/cluster; configuration/package management: configuration server has to be aware of the newcomer(s); monitoring and alerting: monitoring software must be reconfigured; and performance metrics: a tool for collecting data must be reconfigured. There are many excellent software solutions for those particular jobs, say configuration management (Puppet, Chef, cfengine, bcfg2), monitoring hosts and services (Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS, Zenoss, etc) and performance metrics (Ganglia, etc.). But each of these tools has to be configured independently or at least configuration has to be generated. What tools do you use to achieve this? For example, when you have to deploy a new server, how do you create configs for, let's say, PXE boot server, Puppet, Nagios and Ganglia, at once?"

Comment Javastation 2.0 (Score 0) 1089

by s2r on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @12:49PM (#28624291) Attached to: Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010

All things have a sequel this sounds like javastation 2.0.

Comment Re:most people won't care (Score 0) 403

by s2r on Friday May 08, 2009 @04:11PM (#27881287) Attached to: Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Plans

Aren't those licences valid only for the one year? Until the following year's subscription?

Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple 429

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @06:53PM from the get-well-soon dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Network World: "A number of sites are reporting that Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence till June at least. Speculation over Jobs' possibly failing health has run rampant in the past few weeks. Prior to the recent MacWorld show, Jobs said he had a hormone deficiency that had caused him to dramatically lose weight. In a memo today Jobs told workers his health issues are more complex than he thought." Reader Bastian227 adds a link to this letter from Steve Jobs on Apple's website, which also says that Tim Cook will be responsible for daily operations, though Jobs will remain involved with major strategic decisions.

Peru To Be First To Put Windows On OLPC Laptop 292

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @05:32AM from the must-be-that-high-mountain-air dept.

Da Massive writes "The government of Peru will run the first ever trial of the One Laptop Per Child association's XO laptop running Windows XP. This puts the nation at the heart of a software controversy that has been raging for years between those who advocate making software and its source code free, such as Linux OS developers, and those who charge for software and keep the development recipes secret, such as Microsoft."

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