Posts by Kirbini

> What happens when you are the lead horse and your jockey falls off and dies?

They make a movie about you.

Power concerns?

Can you turn a Pogo Plug into a mail server? The only reason I don't run a dedicated print/file/media/mail server at home is simply because I can't justify the cost/value ratio. Now if I could run those servers 24x7 on something like the Plug I might be sussed.

My thoughts exactly..

And don't call me Shirley.

Ditto this

Except the part about not running any Apple software on them. XBMC runs as an extension to the AppleTV.app program which itself is just an iOS app, so yes, you are running Apple software on them or you wouldn't be able to launch XBMC.

Private shared printers is quite simple actually

1. set authentication on all network printing. That is, once you hit OK on the print dialog, another dialog comes up in which you must enter your network (or printer specific) credentials. This is more often used to prevent color printing or to audit printing for chargebacks but can be an effective privatisation tool as well.

2. Even better, set up printers so that the job queues but won't actually print until the user shows up and types in their unique code. The next job won't print until that user comes and types in their code. If it's a private print job, stand there until it is complete and collect your work.

Easy as that and common in many organizations.

@ Dr Ellen

Are you effin serious? Norm Coleman was the one who spent untold millions of out-of-state dollars trying to turn his obvious loss around and in turn cost the state untold millions on a wild goose chase. Minnesota could certainly use that cash now.

Man, a state that gave us Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Senator Al "Stuart Smalley" Franken is a state I wish I still lived in.

Maybe you should read the original piece?

In which there'a video of the guy using tcpdump (what a shock!) live capture which shows his phone uploading every digit press on the phone pad, every query to google, even the HTTPS encrypted ones and even every incoming text message.

Is that enough evidence for you or are you just trolling?

...and is owned by its customers.

You mean like a credit union?

I was teaching WP at the time. WP was more efficient, more feature complete and an all around better word processor on every front. The only reason WP6 ran so badly on Win95 is because MS wanted it to.

Word chewed through memory and had a binary that was nearly 10x as fat as WP so it's not really feasible that given an even playing field Word would perform better. MS killed WP because they owned the platform and leveraged it to make their software appear better.

Google "IE integration" for another example of this behavior.

Have you looked into OpenStack lately?

Yes, OpenStack is complicated as hell, but it's getting better faster. But who stands behind CloudStack? Citrix. And who has publicly committed to OpenStack to the point of integrating CloudStack and Cloud.com code? That's right Citrix.

It's true, today you can be up and running faster with CloudStack. Tomorrow there won't be a CloudStack because OpenStack will consume it. This is not speculation; it is the words of the CloudStack team.

sore spot

@AC: "Can we not have prison rape jokes?"

Bring back too many bad memories for you, do they?

Erm, yes.

It reminds me of a panty liner....

Double Huh?

Reading comprehension fail.

Just so you know, datacenters, which this article is about, deliver power to racks. Computers in those racks then USE that power. Strange but true. The quote you used simply states that new datacenter designs are capable of delivering much more power to a given rack than the old designs. This is good because newer computers need more power in a given bit of space.

But perhaps English is not your first language so all is forgiven.

So it's true?

2 virtualizations equals a real?

Obvious, really.

This is exactly *why* I do not have Facebook or Twitter...

Hrmm. You see, my experience is exactly the opposite. I don't (ok, didn't) experience system crashes or app crashes more than once a year on any of my Macs. In fact I have a lampshade iMac G4 that has an uptime of over 2 years right now. My wife's MacBook never crashes although it's often used by my 6 year old to play some questionably coded online games. I've had a series of MacBook Pros in the last decade and have never had crashing problems.

That is until I got a new MBP last summer (2010). I used the migration tool to move my account and apps from the old MBP to the new one. After that, when I woke up from sleep (by opening the laptop) about 1 in 10 times the system would fail to return to normal and a hard reboot was needed. After about 6 infuriating months of this I was about to wipe it clean and do a fresh install when I tried one last thing: I disassociated the MBP from our corporate Active Directory domain. Life's been one sweet ride ever since. Not a single crash in 5 months of apps or OS. In fact, everything I do seems just a bit snappier. And it didn't affect my ability to reach AD resources since KeyChain happily supplies my creds under the hood without needing to be a member of the domain. If your machines are connected to an ActiveDirector domain I would suggest removing AD from your directory list and seeing if anything changes.

For the record, I am a Windows and Linux admin by day; I use Macs at home and I have one for troubleshooting the corporate network (because the Unix underneath makes AD network troubleshooting easier, go figure). I don't know if the blame for this lies with Apple or MS and I don't care. I just like the results of non-integration.

Nail, hammer, smack on the head...

Alas I have but one thumbs-up to give. You deserve more.

I think the dictionary threw up again?

Just because you know a lot of big(ish) words doesn't not mean you know how to string them together into coherent thoughts.

Honestly, I read your post 4 times and still couldn't suss what you're on about and I have a background in linguistics and natural language processing...

Brakes, shmakes

Rubber on the soles but diamond plate on the heels for the sparks and that great face crunching action.

You mean "Rio"?

@Rovio:

That horse can't be flogged as it's already left the barn.

Reading comprehension much?

You mean, like a the doublewide mentioned in TFA?

Excellent Find

I assumed there'd something like this in the ToS but couldn't be sussed to look myself.

As a previous poster pointed out, I carry most of my music with me all the time, why would I need a cloud to help me get to it. And REALLY why would I want to give any company access to my "files"? Especially companies known to bend over and smear on the vasoline while flashing a "come hither" look every time someone mentions the word subpoena.

I use gmail only because it gives me a previously known email address should somehow find my self suddenly unemployed. Even then I touch it only with rubber gloves and a ten-foot pole. To put my data somewhere the corporate mafia could get access is to be poked by a red hot poker up the jacksie. No thanks.