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General Software Discussion / Re: Is the party over for Microsoft?

« Last post by Josh on July 26, 2009, 12:03 PM »

How many more of these "Is this the end of microsoft" articles are we going to see? I swear, a new one pops up every week. I also expect to see another "Is this finally the year linux takes over the desktop market?" thread any day now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does MySQL care about Windows users? in short, no

« Last post by Josh on July 23, 2009, 11:27 AM »

40hz, I believe what urlwolf was stating was more that if you are ALREADY running Windows, it does not make sense to uproot that entire infrastructure and switch to linux for the sake of switching. Switching to another platform only makes sense if you can financially justify the added cost of retraining, time to convert the infrastructure, and any added support costs from using the new platform. I don't see anywhere in his statement that he said companies are wasting their time switching but instead implied what I just stated above. His comment about commercial software having an edge is true for the most part. Most OSS lacks the polish you see in the commercial product of similar functionality. Businesses often want to be able to use a product where they can call someone to get support and not rely on a forum where you are likely to be flamed for not "RTFM". Of course companies like the ones you name can run *nix, but do they do so as a SOLE PLATFORM or is it INTEGRATED into their infrastructure? Again, switching to one platform for the sake of switching does not make business-sense.

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Living Room / Re: Help put spare laptop to use

« Last post by Josh on July 20, 2009, 07:09 PM »

Specs? I might buy it off ya

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Living Room / Re: 1st Person Shooter Disease

« Last post by Josh on July 13, 2009, 08:09 PM »

Never have I been so glad to be bad at something... 

-Edvard (July 13, 2009, 10:24 AM)

spare a thought for those of us who are sufferers and suck at it to boot

-Target (July 13, 2009, 07:35 PM)

You mean I am not the only one? COOL!

And yes, I think that is mousey with the video store girl

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Living Room / Re: 1st Person Shooter Disease

« Last post by Josh on July 12, 2009, 03:59 PM »

How about....SHUT UP!....nah, just kidding. Attaching now

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Living Room / 1st Person Shooter Disease

« Last post by Josh on July 12, 2009, 01:25 PM »

For those of you who suffer from the motor skill impairments that plaque PC users, check this out and see how you feel afterwards.

First Person Shooter Disease

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on July 08, 2009, 06:06 AM »

Shades...It is a quote from Austin Powers Goldmember

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on July 07, 2009, 05:39 PM »

Sundog: I believe the quote is "People who are intolerant of other people's cultures"

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on July 06, 2009, 04:31 PM »

People who seem to think that by turning on my blinker I am telling them to "Speed up"


ARGH!!!!!!!!!   

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Living Room / Re: Torrent Giant, The Pirate Bay sold, will go legal

« Last post by Josh on July 01, 2009, 08:03 PM »

Then is that a problem with photoshop or with gimp? I really don't think you can say that photoshop isn't worth the price asked simply because the freeware alternative isn't as sophisticated.

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Living Room / Re: Torrent Giant, The Pirate Bay sold, will go legal

« Last post by Josh on July 01, 2009, 07:40 PM »

Loki: Photoshop is NOT for everyone. They even make that clear on their website. There are various photo EDITING programs out there that are priced from the freeware range to 49.95 and beyond. Photoshop is well designed for the advanced photo manipulator and can do things that you simply cannot do in your 30 dollar copy of acdsee or ulead photo studio.

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Living Room / Re: Security Database Website - Keep up to date on the latest security tools

« Last post by Josh on June 29, 2009, 02:04 PM »

Why are there 4 unpatched vulnerabilities in FARR???? Hmmm.......

;-)

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Josh on June 28, 2009, 06:41 PM »

I am liking that idea 4wd. I might just start asking for tips in configuring my machine

Thanks for the tips!

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on June 28, 2009, 08:50 AM »

Stores which print off receipts that are the length of two 8.5x11 pieces of paper when all you purchased was a single item. The receipt I received from rite aide yesterday was that size and all I purchased was Visine eye drops. Half of that was asking me to complete a survey which is "random", yet every receipt I get from them has that survey on it, and the other half was a special explaining an upcoming promotion.

WHAT A WASTE OF PAPER!

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on June 26, 2009, 06:07 PM »

The one with rodney dangerfield?

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Living Room / Re: Anyone Use ITunes Here????

« Last post by Josh on June 24, 2009, 12:40 PM »

Apple ITunes Paypal Instructions

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Living Room / Re: Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Josh on June 24, 2009, 10:03 AM »

Looking for between 2-4 drives and the only CRITICAL feature is DLNA support so I do not have to run a dedicated DLNA server on a PC system (Tversity).

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Living Room / Need NAS Enclosure recommendation

« Last post by Josh on June 23, 2009, 07:52 PM »

I am tired of reading through reviews trying to decide on a NAS drive enclosure that serves up files via the DLNA protocol. I want an enclosure as opposed to a device which comes with drives. I have the hard drives and want to use them as they are. Has anyone had any experience with a solution that would support 2 or more SATA disks?

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on June 22, 2009, 12:54 PM »

People named wraith....oh wait, nevermind....I was thinking of the horrible movie starring Charlie Sheen

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on June 22, 2009, 09:32 AM »

You know, people might be desensitized to movie violence and gore however, after attending a training course, I have learned that seeing it on screen and handling it in real life are two totally different things. I thought I was pretty well de-sensitized to the gore of blood, but seeing and working with it in real life are two things which do not even compare.

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on June 21, 2009, 07:16 PM »

People who own Joe dirt on DVD, or in any medium for that matter.

People who tell me that a bridge/switch is layer 3. ITS NOT PEOPLE!!!! COME ONE!!! ROUTERS ARE LAYER 3, NOT SWITCHES

unless they are layer 3 switches....but those don't count.....

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Josh on June 20, 2009, 03:31 PM »

Now that mouser has successfully derailed and hijacked this thread....How about a new entry:

People who fail to merge when the come off an exit and wait until just before the exit lane forces them to merge. MERGE ALREADY!!!! I am not flashing my hi-beams at you to tell you to go slower!

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Developer's Corner / Re: What (programming) languages are represented?

« Last post by Josh on June 19, 2009, 06:32 PM »

HUSH! Don't ruin my fun! ;-)

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Developer's Corner / Re: What (programming) languages are represented?

« Last post by Josh on June 19, 2009, 05:26 PM »

start:
10 input "Enter your name: ", name1
20 print "Hahahaha, " & name1 & "!!!! You entered your name into a basica program. Hahahahahah!"
30 goto start
35 REM This end statement is never reached.
40 end

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Living Room / Re: Upgrading Video and Power Supply on an Dell XPS 400

« Last post by Josh on June 18, 2009, 06:24 PM »

Just a note that 25 days out of warranty, the PSU on this unit finally failed. Just ordered the one lashiec recommended. Thanks again lashiec