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I'm waiting for all these beta changes to go through before I pick it up. All the previous Battlefield PC games were basically released as beta and turned out to be great games after a few rounds of patches.

His computer was taken over with some type of data gathering trojan/malware. People need to take responsibility for their own problems. If you choose to use online business banking with a bank that offers limited fraud protection beyond that of a simple user authentication, then if your login...

I know that the Cisco exams up through CCNP are pretty good. The CCNA was heavy on core topics such as subnetting and spanning tree. I passed their network academy course at the college with a 99.5% and then grabbed the cert afterwards with even more studying. I know a classmate who barely...

I'm sure they'll have a lot of success with this program. It's about as good of a value as those new car extended warranties that have an exclusion for just about everything. Luckily for Best Buy, there are plenty of satisfied Geek Squad customers that would gladly purchase this along with their...

It's too bad there aren't more reference books for the less popular Cisco certification tracks. Though, it was a good idea for them to drop all the special naming and keep it simple. Such as CCSP and CCVP to CCNP Security and CCNP Voice. This way the guy reviewing the resumes can pick up on the...

I don't really worry about the outsourcing. When you're good enough, it just isn't a big factor. There just aren't that many expert level certified techs such as CCIE's over in India. The problem is, you have to know just about everything to get a good paying job, Exchange/Sendmail, LDAP/Active...

There's a reason the Cisco routers are more expensive. They have plenty for sale on ebay, and with Cisco, power cycling the device is generally not your first troubleshooting step. I found that working on the cheap stuff is actually more difficult, but that's a personal preference. Needless...

I've been in the field for about 10 years as a network admin, and I can say the learning part is a never ending process. After about 8 years, most companies will consider that as an acceptable replacement to having a degree, but having a degree will help get you started at a higher pay sooner...

I'm in Colorado and I haven't yet seen this to be a problem. I've only seen regular signs such as the speed limits being covered. In Boulder the problem is by design. They use mini lights for the green which are too small to be seen if there is sun glare. Although the standard practice is that...

The online merchant is required to have a signature to protect themselves from chargebacks. If the package gets stolen at the door and no one signed for it, then the customer gets their money back by filing a dispute with the credit card company. I once had a customer do a full chargeback on a...

Gamers are boycotting a number of their games for the DRM mess. EA can disregard them, but those lost sales do start to add up.

It seems they are in denial.. I read some of the other reviews and had a few laughs. The techreport was using higher resolutions of 1024x768 to bring the GPU into play to help bring up their P2 numbers. Some of us actually remember buying new video cards to play the latest games at something...

This was a great article. I wasn't looking for a buying guide with price/performance comparisons for sub $300 processors. I wanted to know about how AMD's processor compared to the Core 2 and Core 7 releases. I don't care what the retail value of the processors' are. From this article I saw how...

If the teacher has tenure it's almost impossible to fire them no matter how bad they are. There are good teachers, but most of them could never survive in the real world on their own. Some of them tried with regular jobs, failed, and became teachers only as a result. Then they complain because...

A copy and paste from one of Cisco's DHCP Snooping pages.. I don't know about the other network vendors, but with properly configured Cisco gear, you're already protected from most of the malicious LAN activity. Packet Validation The device validates DHCP packets received on the...

They recently laid off about 8,800 people.. It's just wonderful how they were able to maximize their shareholder value. Sure, they posted better numbers, but I think with all the unemployment coming from them closing a plant in Texas, it would only make the recession worse.

The zoom feature has been improved a lot over IE7. It would have been nice to have an emulate IE6 option for connecting to older Nortel systems and HVAC webCTRL systems.

It could be worse.. with Rocky Mountain Cable.. they throttle the 1.5mb cable internet down to 1/3 of 1mb.. they do this for everyone because there is no competition. With pings as high as 800ms as well. Sometimes it's so frustrating, I purge all 30 gb of my downloaded games and then redownload...

The sad part is that Ubisoft actually released the downloadable version of the game with all the cd checks still in place. So essentially, anyone who bought it through a download was unable to play the game. Their support website is broken, so you can't send them messages about the problem...

I've never had a problem with general software bugs in OpenBSD. The problem I saw was that it's a little outdated and doesn't quite take advantage of your hardware as well as FreeBSD would. OpenBSD would make a great firewall and DNS server, but if you are running Samba on a large network, I'd...

hahaha.. that reminds me of a good quote from the book Dilbert's guide to the rest of your life.. "If you steal a little bit of money, you're a criminal. If you steal a lot, you're a leader." In the nearby city of Black Hawk, CO, they did a report on all the corruption. One of the guys...