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  1. Howell

    Use for old cellphone

    The iPhone works in push mode with Exchange server dependent on the exchange server being updated (particular service pack or version, can't remember). The calendar works fine but there are some quirky limitations. Like you can't invite other people to events created on the phone. I think this...
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    Use for old cellphone

    News from the field: iTunes and Quicktime installed and runs fine on my Vista laptop since I got my iPhone (IBM T43 with 1.5GB). I don't actually use Quicktime that I know of. My coworker has not complained to me about his XP T43 1GB and I would have heard about it. There are 7 iPhones among the...
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    Quiet and Rackmount?

    I second that emotion. You can then use larger fans to pass air through the rack.
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    Retail Management Systems

    From my limited experience you will have a hard time finding a popular accounting package that is not defined by "authorized resellers/distributer". It is a pain as a consultant as they won't even talk to me.
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    The Giver comes...

    OH you know she did girlfriend.
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    The Giver comes...

    How's Koggit?
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    The Giver comes...

    And apparently on the way up within half a year.
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    need an ATA DVD burner

    PM sent. Thanks.
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    need an ATA DVD burner

    Thanks all for your suggestions and offers. It had not occurred to me that there might be compatibility issues with the drive and translation chip itself so I looked it up. BYTECC ME-340U2F-BK http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145360 I don't know if the chip inside is...
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    Michael Phelps suspended three months

    Do you two consider yourselves to be in the 90% or in the 10%?
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    As stupid as it ever gets

    Let's be clear about this now. Typically the parents keep the fingerprint files of the children, not the police. I have no idea what happens to foreign nationals.
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    need an ATA DVD burner

    So I need an ATA DVD burner to drop into my external USB case and I have not been keeping up with all of the acronyms. :) Will just anything do or are there some gotchas? This would just be for burning ISOs and such, nothing archival, so I'd like maximum compatibility (within reason) and to keep...
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    Michael Phelps suspended three months

    Progression of the human race? Like world records? Individual efforts are still connected to community. We should let his example inspire us to be the best versions of ourselves instead of dismissing what he pursues as unimportant. By your definition, it would appear that 90% of us are wasting...
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    Michael Phelps suspended three months

    UI= under the influence (eg DUI) I just wanted clarification for what you meant. It sounds like you are saying that the penalties for drug use are too low to be a deterrent but you would not support "excessive unwarranted force". How would you define excessive unwarranted force?
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    Michael Phelps suspended three months

    I like people with opinions. :) Life is about choices. By choosing some things you will necessarily miss out on other things. You say he has pursued something that is unimportant in the grand scheme of things. What do you think he should have pursued instead?
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    Michael Phelps suspended three months

    Penalties for being caught UI?
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    Michael Phelps suspended three months

    I don't really have a problem with pot per se but it is illegal. It is a difficult place to be in to put up your image for sale. Ideas are hard enough to sell as it is much less the image of an unflawed character. He is not used to dealing with celebrity because he has never had to worry about...
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    experience with Juniper firewalls?

    I hate this piece of junk. It is what you would call anti-intuitive.
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    An inconvienent Truth and Global warming

    Would it be hypocrisy if he was referring to the warm months? That's what I thought.
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    An inconvienent Truth and Global warming

    We should think more seriously about ejecting our nuclear waste into space. We could get the benefit of nuclear energy generation and if we plan and implement launches during the right time of the year we could optimize our solar orbit. Brilliant! Take that global warming!
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    An inconvienent Truth and Global warming

    Changing the Earth's orbit may be expensive and may be impossible but we have to try ... for the children. : )
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    An inconvienent Truth and Global warming

    You have confirmed the downside of the equation of regulating CO2. You can not confirm the upside, that even on a global scale doing this will actually be effective in reducing the warming of the planet.
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    An inconvienent Truth and Global warming

    That's the same argument against trying to regulate CO2 emissions.
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    Something Random

    Though I agree with you you picked a minor quibble in his argument instead of addressing the substantial concern.
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    Something Random

    That my friend is zucchini.
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    Firefox Tweak question

    Is it possible to configure the download window so that certain specific files or file types do not appear?
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    Interview prospective peers

    Yeah, yeah I'm fine. : ) In business it is a lot harder to find people you can tolerate working with than it is to find people with the technical ability. A lot harder. Had I been an interviewee there would not have been a question who the idiots were in the room.
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    Interview prospective peers

    I think its pretty ridiculous to ask a DBA to memorize and understand something that is 1. fundamentally different from what they do everyday and 2. a rare occurrence to begin with A complete waste of talent and company resources. You can not be both broad and deep and be good at both. And...
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    Android Phones?

    What particular business applications are useless on the iPhone? Google applications are broken (no edit ability) while PHPBB works just fine.
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    Android Phones?

    I have 50 year old gimpy ham-fisted friends that type just fine on the iPhone. I can type faster on the iPhone than I could on the MotoQ.
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    Interview prospective peers

    OK, I'm calm now. You should ask your interviews what is the most interesting thing they have made SQL server do. Ask what other DBs they have converted data from. You may want to look at a contract to hire situation.
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    Interview prospective peers

    Are you seriously going to be asking your SQL developer to swap out desktop hard drives or configure RAID on servers? Deciding what RAID level to put the databases on is a very low level decision that doesn't happen very often for a SQL programmer. I can't even remember what model laptop I'm...
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    experience with Juniper firewalls?

    Well, I'm back with a more difficult problem. Assigning additional external IP addresses..oooohhh.
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    Interview prospective peers

    I delegated the question to our developer and got the same answer as dd.
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    experience with Juniper firewalls?

    I hate it when stuff just starts working.
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    experience with Juniper firewalls?

    Does anyone have experience with Juniper firewalls? In particular I want to enable management on the external interface for a Netscreen 25.
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    Something Random

    With two ten foot by four inch compressed air cambers feeding a 10 foot by 1.5 inch barrel via sprinkler head valves you can send a paint roller through cinder block. Do you really need more than that? :) When considering combustible propellant one of the most important characteristics for...
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    Something Random

    Be careful with the combustible propellant. If regular PVC glue is used it will soften and the cannon will blow apart. Compressed air is better.
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    To all at SF

    Did they not have any? Or did also you tell them you are like a Uh-Oh Oreo; White on the outside and black on the inside? 'Cause they might look at you funny for that.
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    Something Random

    :D :D :D
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    New Server Systems

    oo, oo. This is where I get to say the the current version of XenServer has a text console that provides you a subset of the management functions. Otherwise you use the admin console or ssh into a terminal.
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    New Server Systems

    Whatever hardware you choose you should build the server in VM. Their next hardware upgrade will be extremely low labor and this one will take about ten minutes longer. XenServer Express is free for up to 2 CPU sockets.
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    USB-to-NAS device

    If that little guy could be made to copy backups to another one with out user intervention it would be awesome. For now, I like this guy for only $150...
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    The race for the US presidency

    Yeah, I agree. I was surprised to hear on NPR that what he did was only just outside of normal for Chicago politics though.
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    Place yer bets

    Depressing as it may be, I've seen some buldged caps recently.
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    Five Myths About the Great Depression

    I was particularly enlightened by the concept of healthy participation in the stock market being buying for income rather than for resale. Buying for income would be expecting income from growth of the company while buying for resale would be expecting income indirectly through a rise in stock...
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    Five Myths About the Great Depression

    http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122576077569495545-lMyQjAxMDI4MjA1NzcwNjcwWj.html There are some history buffs here who I thought could editorialize.
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    Google Talk

    I use the one built into gmail about once a week and haven't noticed anything.
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    So who won the other race?

    Obama, McCain campaigns' computers hacked for policy data http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/06/campaign.computers.hacked /index.html?iref=werecommend
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    What 50 CEOs Want from the Next President

    http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11/1106_ceos_on_election/index.htm?chan=rss_topSlideShows_ssi_5
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