Comment CowboyNeal (Score 1) 71
Traditions are important
Comment Whatever happened to tradition? (Score 2) 92
I'm here for CmdrTaco!
Comment Developing World FTW (Score 1) 267
Living in a "Developing" Country (Guatemala) finally had its benefits! Got to see the movie last night and it was amazing. I. CAN'T. EVEN.
Comment Re:Midi-chlorians begone! (Score 1) 403
Bear.
(Bare means uncovered, unclothed, naked, unaided...
"I wrestled the big brown bear with my bare hands"
although probably not for long unless the bear had been heavily drugged)
Better yet, "have no effect on who..."
Thank you for explaining the difference unitron, english is not my native language and I don't always get it right
Comment Midi-chlorians begone! (Score 4, Interesting) 403
SW EP VII, Scene 1
Leia: Luke, after studying for years the effect of Midi-chlorians in the way we use the Force, I've come to the conclusion that they bare no effect in who can or cannot become a Jedi, all we know about them is wrong...anybody can be a Jedi...
Luke: whoa!
Comment We have something similar at Work (Score 3, Insightful) 385
At work, we needed to archive (for compliance purposes) all the inbound/outbound email messages of our users (about a 1K aprox). We setup an Ubuntu server with postfix and dovecot IMAP over SSL, using Maildir.
Our users generate about 20K email messages daily, and we store each day in it's own directory, something like this:
INBOX
|- YYYY
|- MM
|- DD
The auditors use Evolution to connect to the archive server and search the emails, even though it takes a little while to load a day of emails for the first time, once it's properly loaded searching is really fast. The server is not that powerful, it's a VM with 2 CPUs and 2GB of RAM. You do need a lot of storage though.
Hope this helps.
Comment Re:Not free, but cheap & good... (Score 1) 360
Agreed, we currently use the Barracuda IM at our main office with around 250 users and it works great, was very easy to set up and we can specifically configure who can use outside networks or not, and everything gets logged appropriately.
JC
Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide 785
jddeluxe writes "There are multiple reports springing up all over the internet of a mass suicide of Microsoft 30GB Zune players globally. Check Zune forums, Gizmodo, or other such sites; the reports are spreading rapidly, except apparently to the Microsoft official Zune site."
HP Accused of Illegal Exportation To Iran 287
AdamWeeden writes "According to research done by the Boston Globe, HP has been secretly using a third-party company to sell printers to Iran. This is illegal under a ban instituted in 1995 by then US President Bill Clinton. The third-party company, Redington Gulf, operates out of Dubai and previously stated on their web site that the company began in 1997 with 'a team of five people and the HP supplies as our first product, we started operations as the distributor for Iran,' though now the site has been changed to remove the mention of Iran. Has HP unknowingly been supplying Iran with technology or have they been trying to secretly get by the US government's export restrictions?"
Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3 302
will_die writes "The people at iSuppli have taken apart an October 2008 version of the PlayStation 3 to create a bill of materials, along with providing a comparison to original PS3. The article provides information about the changes Sony has made. One of the big ones was that the hardware has gone from costing $690.23 to the current price of $448.73. This was done using a combination of removing parts (currently 2,820 vs. the original 4,048), cutting the cost of the CPU ($46.46 vs. $64.40), and cutting the cost of the graphics processor to $58.01 from $83.17."
Tales From the Support Crypt 855
An anonymous reader writes "Talking viruses, infected physical devices, and lights that go out are some of the 'problems' Panda Security's tech support service has had to face. Many of them were not a result of computer viruses, but of confused users. This proves once again, that antivirus manufacturers must make a special effort to increase user knowledge regarding computer security and malware effects." For anyone who's been on the receiving end of such questions, now's a good time to tell your cathartic tale.
How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule 143
ScienceDaily on what the future might bring for atomic-scale computing: "Joachim, the head of the CEMES Nanoscience and Picotechnology Group (GNS), is currently coordinating a team of researchers from 15 academic and industrial research institutes in Europe whose groundbreaking work on developing a molecular replacement for transistors has brought the vision of atomic-scale computing a step closer to reality. Their efforts, a continuation of work that began in the 1990s, are today being funded by the European Union in the Pico-Inside project. ... The team has managed to design a simple logic gate with 30 atoms that perform the same task as 14 transistors, while also exploring the architecture, technology, and chemistry needed to achieve computing inside a single molecule and to interconnect molecules."
Avoiding Wasted Time With Prince of Persia 507
Zonk pointed out an interesting video presentation by Shamus Young on the importance of the new Prince of Persia, calling it the most innovative game of 2008. Young brings up the fact that many of today's games punish failure by wasting the player's time; being sent back to a check point, the beginning of a level, or sometimes even further. This cuts into the amount of time players have to enjoy the meat of the game — the current challenge they have to overcome. Unfortunately, as Young notes, modern controllers are designed for players who have been gaming since they were kids, and have evolved to be more complicated to operate than an automobile. The combination of these factors therefore limits or prevents the interest of new players; a problem Prince of Persia has addressed well through intuitive controls and the lack of punitive time sinks.
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