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« Last post by 40hz on February 05, 2014, 02:00 PM »@Wraith - thx for that link! Also an excellent article. 
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Lessons From Ballmer's Microsoft
As a new CEO takes charge, a look back at Ballmer’s era provides key tech management lessons.
February 4, 2014 - By Rob Enderle
Now that Satya Nadella has been announced as Steve Ballmer’s replacement, many of us are focused on both retrospectives and outlooks based on Ballmer’s reign and Satya’s skillset. But focus appears to be more on the events – not on the foundations for them, so the lessons tend to be lost in the rhetoric of blame, particularly for the failures.
However, the causes for things like Zune and Windows Vista had little to do with Steve and a lot to do with the organizational structure of Microsoft, particularly the loss of key human assets like Bill Gates, Brad Chase, and Brad Silverberg. They also had to do with an early decision by Steve Ballmer to stop being Microsoft’s cheerleader and instead become kind of a Stepford CEO.
Let’s talk about the “why” behind Microsoft’s decade slide...
.Anyone use a rotated monitor in portrait mode for coding?-mouser (February 04, 2014, 03:04 PM)
Five reasons I'd rather run Windows 8 than Linux ZDNet
That article is so chock-full of trollbait, it should have been sent trip-trapping over a bridge. The author even says as much ("Prove me right.").
Seems like it never fails that when the Windows vs. Linux rant fests begin, all manner of facts, lies, damn lies, generalities, opinions, assumptions, straw men, and ad hominems ALL get loaded in the troll-cannons at once and fired with complete impunity and disregard for public safety by both parties. I was sick of it years ago, and I'm sick of it now.-Edvard (February 04, 2014, 01:21 AM)
I just heard about SplashTop. I haven't used it myself, but from what I've heard, it's very fast (unlike TeamViewer, which takes forever sometimes to update the screen).
It might be worth looking into.-Deozaan (February 03, 2014, 08:17 PM)
The different tasks need different solutions. I try to one-way remote control of my students with TNM.-ADNY78 (February 04, 2014, 10:08 AM)
I usually light up a cig and hit the start button,
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I launch my XP several times a day, so I do smoke a lot...-Curt (February 02, 2008, 08:40 AM)
today the 4'th of February 2014 it is my 1 year anniversary for not smoking!
I just had to tell-Curt (February 04, 2014, 03:35 AM)
That small company A has no idea that in 2011 Sauron_Clone8 will buy them out to shut them down, just because some 3/4 executive manager decided that was an action item to do.-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 04:14 PM)
so Crossloop joins Hamachi and Logmein in the pay-to-use realm..-lanux128 (February 03, 2014, 08:02 AM)
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Gibson Commemorates Fed Raid with Government Series II Les Paul
Meredith Bragg & Anthony L. Fisher|Feb. 1, 2014 11:00 am
Two years after Gibson factories in Tennessee were raided by government agents, the venerable guitar manufacturer has released a special Government Series II Les Paul. As the press release explains:
Great Gibson electric guitars have long been a means of fighting the establishment, so when the powers that be confiscated stocks of tonewoods from the Gibson factory in Nashville—only to return them once there was a resolution and the investigation ended—it was an event worth celebrating. Introducing the Government Series II Les Paul, a striking new guitar from Gibson USA for 2014 that suitably marks this infamous time in Gibson’s history.
...Each Government Series II Les Paul also includes a genuine piece of Gibson USA history in its solid rosewood fingerboard, which is made from wood returned to Gibson by the US government after the resolution.
Reason TV reported on the Gibson case back in 2012. Original text from February 23, 2012 video is below.
"They...come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything," says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, referring to the August 2011 raid on his Nashville and Memphis factories by agents from the Departments of Homeland Security and Fish & Wildlife.
The feds raided Gibson for using an inappropriate tariff code on wood from India, which is a violation of the anti-trafficking statute known as The Lacey Act. At issue is not whether the wood in question was endangered, but whether the wood was the correct level of thickness and finish before being exported from India. "India is wanting to ensure that raw wood is not exported without some labor content from India," says Juskiewicz.
Andrea Johnson of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) counters that "it's not up to Gibson to decide which laws...they want to respect." She points out that Gibson had previously been raided under The Lacey Act for imports from Madagascar.
This much is clear: The government has yet to file any charges or allow Gibson a day in court to makes its case, much less retrieve its materials. "This is not about responsible forestry and sustainable wood or illegal logging, this is about a bureaucratic law," argues Juszkiewicz, who testified last year before a congressional hearing convened by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). It is, he says, "a blank check for abuse."
@40hz:-Shades (February 01, 2014, 04:33 PM)
I think he meant the Big-Brother section the video was from. *Shrug*
HOLY WTF!!!!!!!
Authorities Want Remote Access To Californians’ Home CCTV Footage ‘For The Greater Good’
I shouldn't be reading this stuff ... I'm going to end up with health issues.-Stoic Joker (January 30, 2014, 12:44 PM)
Lenovo will take charge of IBM's System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, blade networking and maintenance operations.
I've hardly ever used drives other than Seagate and I've yet to encounter one that flaked out in the first few years of use.
OTOH, I've used a handful of WD drives and around half of them had problems a lot earlier than I was accustomed to.
Maybe it's a regional thing? More likely, just dumb luck.-nosh (January 30, 2014, 02:28 AM)
AT&T plan to shut off Public Switched Telephone Network moves ahead at FCC
FCC to greenlight IP phone trials, but won't completely deregulate AT&T.
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to take its first major step toward letting AT&T and other carriers replace the country's traditional phone system with one that works entirely over Internet Protocol networks...
