Social Security has always outperformed its financial forecasts. Also the the A-10 Thunderbolt II, a project actually run by an Air Force officer, outside of the normal private design submission process, came in under budget, on time and with better that expected performance. Those are two that spring to mind anyway.

But you are right that 10 year economic forecasts, private of government, are rarely accurate. That is part of why SS routinely outperforms long term forecasts, the economy as a whole generally does.

Data Domain blows Netapp away. It is also a lot cheaper and doesn't charge you for every single feature. I mean, Netapp charge you for CIFS!

Basically it is a NAS that breaks your data into sub-block sized chunks at ingestion, checksums it and single instances the chunks. Most users get 20:1 average compression. Obviously different data types de-dupe at different efficiencies. Our VM images typically hit 40:1, SQL Server DBs about 30:1, medical images 5:1. DDOS now includes some archive specific features, which it sounds like you might find useful. It also has a very robust replication feature. Since it was originally designed for backup, it is optimized for data integrity. DD is dead simple to configure and operate and the support is great. http://www.datadomain.com/products/appliances.html

That brings back good memories of college.

And that isn't even counting Cuba's superior healthcare and education.

Albacore in Portsmouth NH is unique and interesting.

"When I was a boy, blowing up the moon was just a beautiful dream."

Ah, so there is no federal Highway Trust Fund or gasoline tax? Tolls magically fund the construction of highways before they exist and that there is no such thing as a freeway? Good to know.

Then in the 1930 and 40s they abandoned them. Why?

Ooh, ooh! I know this one! Because the government subsidized the automotive infrastructure!

Publicly traded corporations. I work at a 10,000 employee company not covered under SarbOx.

No, OS X has always done that. Except they call it prebinding.

Huh... when did that happen? I've never had it work. I just checked in Snowy and it still doesn't work there. Which is sad since they use samba for the server. You'd think they'd at least match its client capabilities.

Of course, all CIFS is proprietary. The Samba team just does an awesome job reverse engineering it. The Open Group SMB standard is now basically a fork thanks to MS's policy.

OK, looks like Samba added DFS about two years ago.

All I can think of is lack of DFS support. But I think DFS is proprietary.

The first thing my CIO said (10,000 employee company) was, "great, now I can wipe the last Microsoft products off my hard drive."

You'd have to write your own software for the thing. They don't even allow ATA over Ethernet. It isn't just IP only, it is HTTPS only. If you want block level access, they don't want you.