Sure, I suppose it's possible to guess my password, but it's very unlikely. Definitely not in any dictionary, upper case, lower case, numbers, and symbols. If I were a betting man, I'd bet the whole retirement account that my password wasn't guessed.

I had my account 'hacked' and the email address changed. I went through a few days of email exchanges with Spotify support before they would restore access. I've had an account since before FB authentication, but I still have a difficult time believing mine is the only one...

The stats for non-commercial flying do not support your assertion that flying is somehow safer than driving. GA Flying vs driving uses 2004 numbers, but you can see the updated data with similar numbers over at AOPA

There are many stories that are "gotten" but never actually make it to mass media. I agree with the sentiment that a motivated reporter will usually be able to get a story, but that doesn't mean it gets printed or played on air. Most media outlets have giant corporations as their parent, and often those corporations are heavily influenced by lobbyists and others who are actively working to keep negative news from the press.

Let's not forget the cost of the computer to plug these drives into. Also forgetting the management time for backups, and whatever offsite mechanism you're using for DR, whether it's just the price of gas to drive to a friend or family, the power at a second facility, safety deposit box, or whatever it is.

Nobody is saying that you can't do it for cheaper yourself, if you don't place much value on your time. Backing up 1TB at $.02/gb for one year costs $240. A 1TB external drive costs about $70, and we need at least 2 for redundancy. Assuming a 3 year warranty on the drive, and not accounting for any of the additional costs mentioned above, the total cost for 1TB over 3 years would be:

gdrive: $720
usb drives: $140

That's a difference of $580, over 36 months. In exchange for not having to worry about anything relating to my data's safety, in this scenario, I would pay an additional $16/month. Even if If I only had to spend, on average, an hour per month on the backups, I'd still consider the gdrive a better value, and that's not even considering the additional price of doing the backups yourself. All of the potential time dealing with whatever the DR solution is, re-syncing a failed drive and dealing with the RMA process, or any of the other countless issues there are with backups, I find the "cloud" solution works best for me.

YMMV, of course, which is why we all have options.

you must be new here.

They were completely dominant in the last Summer Olympics. In fact, the Speedo suits were so dominant in Beijing that other suit sponsors allowed their athletes to wear Speedo just so they could be competitive.

I agree with this as well. I work in the Seattle area as a linux professional and there is little difficulty in finding companies interested in my skillset. As others have said, there are huge numbers of MS folks here, which likely makes the market for MS stack developers very competitive.

In the past, I have relied quite heavily on reading through their forums site, hardforums.com.

While I don't necessarily disagree, what about the other side of the argument? Without the bundling, do the less popular channels like those listed above ever become available for consumption?

Yea, because that way you totally don't waste the food......

Oh. You mean like sorting by sender and then date? If you use quoting properly in your emails it works just as well, and is just as easy, and has the added benefits that your conversation threads are still at your disposal when you are offline for whatever reason.

Actually, I don't believe it's like that at all.

GMail will group threads together that don't necessarily have to come from the same person. I can have several people reply to the same email and they're all grouped together into a single "conversation." If I sort by sender, as you suggest, I'm not going to get the behavior described.

In Outlook 2010, the setting to group the emails this way is called "Show as Conversations" under the 'View' tab. I don't use any other email software, so I can't say whether or not it's available elsewhere.

Why can't you run multiple services on one machine and have a secondary? The examples given in the topic were NTP and monitoring. I don't see a need virtualizing those services, or many of the others that have been discussed in this thread. It's standard procedure in any reasonable infrastructure where I've worked to run these sorts of services on a single, bare metal machine. (I currently part of a team managing ~40k linux servers, for example)

Help me understand why would you go through the hassle of virtualizing all of these services into separate VMs and creating extra layers of administration in this particular case.

(The wording in the post I originally responded to, in my opinion, did not indicate that you had any secondary service active, but rather just backed up to some other server.)

I can only hope you're joking.

You're saying to have one box with all of your services on multiple VMs, right? If you have any sort of service interrupting event on that one machine, all of your services go down. That sounds awesome.