Red Hat doesn't provide a backup/restore utility?

This might work if you have a tape changer as secondary storage and disk as your primary storage, and spool out little-used data to tape and restore on demand. I _think_ this is what the Removable Storage service was for in Windows 2000/2003, but I think it required additional software and may no longer be part of the OS. The idea is that if a file isn't accessed in a long time, it's replaced with a "stub" and moved to tape. If you access it, the file is pulled back from tape to disk. Of course, the tapes need to be available, and if you run something that tries to access every file you're gonna have a bad time.

One problem you'll find is that consumer hard drives are cheap, and there's no such thing as consumer-grade tape devices any more. Tape gear will either be expensive or used. That tips the cost/benefit heavily towards throwing disks at the problem for home use.

Summary is wrong, it's actually 1300 Exxon-Mobile companies,.

Truly outrageous.

Can servers get gay married, then?

I know Tenable has a free version of their Nessus scanner for home/research use, probably others do too. Download them and test them out and see what holes they find.

And one shitload is "everything you can carry in both arms, plus one". Geez, these kids today don't know Système international d'unités (pardon my French).

How can Beats be crap? They're designed by a doctor, and (until recently) made by a Monster!

I have a pair of older closed, full-ear Sennheiser headphones that are my "best" pair; I got them for under $70, IIRC they were the model under the 555 when they sold those. I didn't know about Grado at the time, that may have been a better choice. I also have a pair of wireless Sennheisers for TV viewing (by far the best wireless headphones I've used, RS120 I think) and an ancient pair of Radio Shack (rebranded Koss) on-ear headphones (from the '80s). They all sound different, and they all sound good to me.

Note that only the RS120s are current models, and I've even had those for ~10 years. Good headphones will last forever. Try to buy from a brand that sells replacement ear pads.

Try to get them from somewhere where you can either listen to them with your music or return them easily. Headphone preference is fairly personal, so you might hate the ones I love.

If you're really serious, you'll also want to build a small headphone amp. You could buy one, but then you'll have to turn in your soldering iron.

This is Slashdot, where all the men play "single player".

I think Louis Blériot is Ke$ha's grandfather.

Sure, but he's _my_ failure! That's got to be better than any failure you put forward.

That's a better clean power source than taping buttered bread to a cat.

WYSE of some model, running Win7 Embedded. Looking at their web site I think it's the C90LE7. They have a VIA Eden 1GHz processor, and it's pegged most of the time.

Pretty much anything can be successfully virtualized if you throw enough hardware at the host. Just keep in mind that these machines are all actually running on the same processors, and there's probably going to be a way to escalate rights from VM to host or VM to VM. In your environment this may not be an issue, but it's worth keeping in mind.

I thought that too, and suggested terminal services and thin clients at my company. Turns out today's thin clients are just Win7 machines that are slow and hard to patch, but by the time I realized it the executives were already sold. We would have been better off re-using existing old hardware as "thin clients".