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  • RE: Zettabytes and Beyond

    Just look at flash drives. I remember being given a couple 512MB drives buy a tech salesperson who obviously didn't know the costs. I looked it up, and at the...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Inconsistency

    L' Eomot Inversé (3/16/2013)


    Yes, so I'll never use correct horse battery stable as a pasword now - the everbody and his dog knows it :laugh:

    How about autos world needs gas.

    Four...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Inconsistency

    Scott Anderson #2 (3/15/2013)


    Jim P. - I also thought that more secure meant less useable, until I realised that we are looking at securing the wrong way. Instead of the...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Inconsistency

    My belief:

    The more secure you try to make systems and software makes them either less secure or become unused and useless.

    Some examples locking down Windows that a regular user has...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: The Microsoft Sideshow

    David Conn (3/8/2013)


    I see Microsoft as being Evolutionary rather than Revolutionary. All that they're doing at the moment is offering a Touchscreen Windows i.e. a Decent One. Windows 8 is...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: The Microsoft Sideshow

    The other thing MS is doing is more web based apps, such as Office 365.

    I'm still holding at Office 2003 because of the ribbon. Yes the 365 will be a...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Data Freedom and Regulation

    I work for a company that produces SW for the health care industry, more specifically nursing homes. We live in the guts of HIPAA compliance. The programmers commonly build in...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: A New Type of Colocation Facility

    It looks like M$ is finally catching up to Google on Data Centers. 😀



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Not Pulling the Plug Out

    Jeff Moden (1/26/2013)


    In the case you cited above, it should be changed to "It is the incompetent dumb a55 that currently holds the DBA position that..." 😀

    I know you are...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Not Pulling the Plug Out

    The one question is did they restore the "BACKUP Log With TRUNCATE_ONLY" option?

    I have been in so many situations that I walk in after a bulk data load or a...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Serverless Software

    Nadrek (1/24/2013)


    Further, knowing about hardware allows you to have the option of choosing tradeoffs yourself - what's the native word size, and are there instructions that are much faster/slower, for...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Serverless Software

    Anytime I hear cloud computing, Hadoop, or Mongo DB I always think of this video (warning: contains profanity).

    At home I connect to the internet with an aircard at $10 per...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: The Optimists

    I've gotten in the habit with my manager of occasionally dropping this on her desk:

    You have a choice:

    Good

    Fast

    ...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Serious Security

    john.moreno (1/17/2013)


    Except that for a site that you visit once a week, let alone once a month or once a year, you haven't memorized it, you've forgotten all about it....



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Serious Security

    Any time someone brings up password security I always think of this XKCD commentary[/url]



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

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