Posted 05/11/2009 at 12:00:43pm

   It's nice to see that some governments (EU) have the backbone to go after corporate giants that engage in corrupt practices. Though I have no research in this particular instance, my gut tells me that the lobbying on the domestic front has made many of our elected officials look the other way when Intel, or any other powerful lobby, entreat to engage in practices which are questionable or outright illegal.

   If Intel is breaking the law in the EU then they need to be slapped down and slapped down good.

   It is unfortunate that a stinging fine/settlement will probably increase the price of our CPUs somewhat as a result. But I am convinced that if Intel ran unchecked and ran AMD out of business, then we'd be paying an even higher price for our CPUs than any fine would have effected.

   Just think how much of the current global economic crisis would not exist if the world's corporations ran a clean game, whether business-to-business, business-to-employee, business-to-government, or business-to-customer.

The Concerned IT Professional

Posted 02/13/2009 at 02:08:37pm

   Beer and Ice Cream should come in lots of flavors, though porter and coffee remain my faves, respectively.

   I can't help but be of the mind that if MS simply made one OS, they could sell it significantly cheaper - while getting it right, and (hopefully) the one, do-all OS would be affordable by all.

    Multiple versions offered under the guise of "buy only what you need" just smack of money-grubbing marketing gimmickry to me.

    That being said, I realize that there are legal reasons why other versions may be required for export; my comment pertains to whatever versions are available in the U.S... excepting the first sentence, of course :p

The Concerned IT Professional

Posted 02/06/2009 at 12:34:59pm

For crying out loud, I wonder how much cost is added to a product for these wizards to figure out which version gets what features.

Just have one version. Or two if you must have a distinct, separate version each for 32 and 64 bit.

The Concerned IT Professional

Posted 10/12/2008 at 10:08:40pm

You just have to append the Microsoft Console extension, .msc to the command:

In the run box you'd type gpedit.msc and hit enter/click ok.

One word of note is that this command won't fly in the Home version of XP.

The Concerned IT Professional

Posted 11/20/2007 at 01:51:12pm

From QNAP's own website comparison tool, the only differences apparent between the versions of the TS-109 are that the Pro supports NFS (Linux client) and Microsoft Active Directory. The pricing difference at the time of this comment from Newegg's retail site was that the Pro was an additional $45.00 US. As far as everything else goes, features, speeds and feeds all are the same. I was considering buying this device, but I am put off by the stated internal storage maximum of 1TB; I can't ascertain whether the statement is the true maximum drive size usable by the product or whether it was merely a case of the largest size currently available at the time they published their specs. One of the only reasons why I would pay so much for a NAS device sans the actual storage would be so that as drive capacities increase, I could simply upgrade the drive I chose to install within the enclosure. If there really is a ceiling on the internal drive storage size usable, then this relegates the device to something disposable, in which case it would be far too expensive.

Posted 07/20/2007 at 10:58:18am

I've had this drive for about a month now and agree with the author's assessment of the drive. It reads wonderfully fast, and seems a bit pokey on the writing of large files. This doesn't overly concern me, since I keep all my utilities, service packs, hotfixes etc. on this drive, it was really a matter of writing once to it and then it's my super portable tool kit. It's read to write usage ratio is probably around 50:1 16GB on a USB key for ~$125 is awesome. I'm thinking of reconfiguring it to be bootable with a customized BartPE load. The Concerned IT Professional

Posted 06/21/2007 at 02:48:42pm

Anything with enough juice to heat a seat and dry my undercarriage does not need to be within inches of both my privates and a hopper full of liquid; especially when it intends to coat said undercarriage with a nice spritz of water just to improve conductivity.