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I Have a Private Cloud

I started on a private cloud about a year ago, it has gone open source and in active development - http://www.novadb.org/

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Microsoft Research?

Why do you say he's a former Microsoft Research employee? He doesn't say that, the bio on his book just says he's ex-Microsoft. Maybe you could ask him and clarify this.

Font viewers/browsers

I'm unclear why this is a subject; Linux KDE v3.5.9 includes font facilities that are all in one place - install, remove, and view. I understand the Gnome folk and those who use LaTex have all the font tools they need too.

Using more than four fonts in a text or context is likely to be unpleasant for readers. That ancient tech, the codex, provides good examples of what works for the long haul - does all that font stuff just signal someone with too much spare time?

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Cisco UC customers appear S.O.L. when in comes to deploying Windows 7

Cisco won't be refunding your money if it can't support Windows 7 on its UC products.
Submitted by Brad Reese on Sat, 11/07/09 - 2:38pm.

At least Cisco is warning Unified Communications customers about it NOT successfully offering support for Microsoft Windows 7:

"Cisco will have no liability for any delay in delivery, or failure to deliver, any or all of the planned Windows 7 support features set forth herein. Therefore, any such delay or failure will not in any way grant to Cisco customers the right to return, refund, adjust, or exchange any previously purchased Cisco products or products that customers may purchase under their Cisco purchase contracts."

Are you "rolling the dice" by deploying Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) while purchasing the following Cisco UC products?

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to got friend

hi friend i like to friend you

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Bing is decent, though

I've been a bit surprised at how often Bing will return desired results where Google does not, especially in news searches (where Google is still really poor, so in that particular area it's not so surprising). Of course, soemtimes Google delivers more desired results than Bing, but I would say that the two are at the least equal but MS may actually be just-slightly better.

That said, I haven't trained myself to go to Bing first, first-hand evidence of the difficulty of changing behaviors, and using Google is very much ingrained behavior.

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Microsoft Is Perfect Example Why Executive Pay Is Broken

Microsoft lays off more employees while executives still rake in the dough.
Submitted by Mitchell Ashley on Fri, 11/06/09 - 8:34am.

Text message this morning from CNN: Unemployment hit 10.2% in October. Microsoft announced earlier this week another 800 employee layoffs to the 5,000 previously announced employee layoffs. If you look at Microsoft's financials you see why, a 14% revenue and 18% net income drop for the last reported quarter, on top of disappointing prior quarters.

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offshoring

i need help to find jobs the name of the commanies that offshoed

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Winners of Microsoft Subnet and Cisco Subnet contests

Winners of our October giveaways snagged free books and training
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 11/05/09 - 5:38pm.

We are tickled to announce the winners of our October giveaways. The grand prize winner of the October Microsoft Subnet giveaway is Wendy Newton (pictured), IT manager for Bowman and Brooke LLP. She won a free Microsoft training course from Global Knowledge.

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Air Force: US decades behind on satellite protection

Can satellites really be protected from flying space junk?
Submitted by Layer 8 on Thu, 11/05/09 - 4:53pm.

Too little is known about what potential foes have placed into space and how much space debris is threatening to damage American orbiters. And the US needs to deploy more space sensors, satellites and satellite protection and quickly: "We are decades behind where we should be, in my view." 

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Nonsense

Ha aha ha ha ha ..u gotta be kidding me

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How about non-technical distractions?

They haven't covered all the old and non-technical distractions, such as eating, drinking, smoking, combing or brushing hair, applying makeup, shaving, talking to the passengers, waching pedestrians (of the opposite sex), sleepiness, and even plain daydreaming. One solution is to make driving more difficult and uncomfortable, having the driver pay more attention.

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SOA Governance

We chose JaxView as our SOA governance tool. It is comprehensive and with the best ROI. It covers security and visibility which was important to us

JT

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FCC and DOT team-up, want high-tech cure for distracted driving

iPods, Blackberry, Smartphones, video games and GPS systems all under the gun for distracting too many drivers
Submitted by Layer 8 on Wed, 11/04/09 - 11:28am.

The Federal Communications Commission and the US Department of Transportation are teaming up to develop what they called high-tech solutions to the growing problem of distracted or inattentive drivers

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Windows 7: Installed on my Dell X1...Finally

The long overdue testing has begun
Submitted by Ron Barrett on Wed, 11/04/09 - 10:45am.

Way back in August I blogged about installing Windows 7 on my Dell X1. Well the long overdue task is now complete. I have to say that the inital results are pretty impresive.

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RIM Still Hasn't Recovered From The Blackberry Storm

It's now a two horse race between the iPhone and Droid.
Submitted by Mitchell Ashley on Wed, 11/04/09 - 8:54am.

The Blackberry Bold is getting good attention but the mobile SmartPhone world has become a two horse race between the Apple iPhone and the Motorola/Google Droid. Even with the new Blackberry Storm 2 model, the Storm missed its window to be a serious contender against the iPhone (despite all my ill advised  pro-Storm predictions).

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Not true

Well, Mr. Horton, your test is not true. I tried the program on my camera pics and selected lossless compression. My photos went down from 2.5 MB each to around 700 KB! That is a big compression!
I must say, the program is worth looking into if you want a hassle-free, easy compression of your pictures.
I also use Photoshop, but there I need to click like a 100 times to do that.

The program works great for me.

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Mark's rating: 4

STFW, fix Pipes, and repair Mac disks; voila!

The next time someone asks you a question and you know they haven't bothered to do the obvious, to wit, look it up on Google, send them a link to Let Me Google That For You. For example, if someone were to write to me and ask if there's an archive of Gearhead columns, I might reply with "Try this link: http://tinyurl.com/yfg33ty". Voila!

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Did we really need an article about this?

Are we running out of material or something? No one with enough sense believes numbers thrown out by any company anywhere in any business marketing hype. This article is like a huge block of text talking about something that is pretty much common sense.

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Videos?

Any vids of these amazing machines?

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