Stores must love you when you pay a 1$ bread with a credit card and most of it stays in the pocket of the CC company...

Yeah, who thought that playing violent games such as football, lacrosse or hockey in college is a good idea anyway. Or anywhere for that matter, I find those sports violent and stupid. There, I said it. It's better than people going at war or tribes throwing feces at each others, but barely.

Think about what you are doing and what you can split on a dual setup (headless server+laptop) like I described. You don't need the most powerful system in existence to develop nowadays. Unless you compile X11 or KDE every 10 minutes. Even the Linux kernel compiles from clean in a few minutes on my laptop.

In that same situation, I replaced a powerful and nosy desktop behemoth I'd been upgradiung for 15 years by a tiny and quiet headless linux Shuttle server that sits in a bookcase shelf next to the cable modem, always on (local NFS server, virtual machines via rdesktop, web server, family image server, media server, etc); and a powerful large screen laptop I close when I'm not using.

You should fork the pronunciation then. That's how the open source world works, no ?

Nut that's the point of doing it modular: send a new module every few years, retire one every few years, this way you don't need to dump the whole thing at once and start over.

Same experience here... until I changed brand of UPS. APC absolutely sucked, I had something like 10 different ones (I run a lot of hardware) fail in various ways. Since I changed brand: no more problems. I don't even remember what I have now since it's been under the desk for years without me needing to look.

I don't know what they mean by 'host' but 'hosts files' are a complementary solution to adblock. And yes it is spam, and since you are all anonymous cowards don't expect a discussion on that.

Yeah and it's permeating the whole of society. This week only I heard (live, not on TV): a medical doctor say that there was solvent in one brand of D vitamin for babies; so many people say 'you never know' as an excuse to give homeopathy to their kids; a physics teacher say that radio waves are bad; kindergarten teachers say that wifi keep kids from sleeping well; a math teacher say she cannot stand to be near power lines; etc, etc, etc...

Can't they plan something permanent, where you add and remove modules as needed ? Barely 2 decades of use for such an expensive project seems kind of a waste.

I used StartSSL a couple years ago when the first versions of HTTPS-Everywhere came out. Great. It worked. But then after a year you had to do the whole procedure again. Which I of course forgot to do. And since HTTPS-Everywhere doesn't revert to HTTP is the certificate lapses, all my visitors got was a 404 (or the https equivalent). Not really optimum. If this new scheme wants to take off, they need a way to renew automatically. Provide us with a shell script we can put in cron once a year and forget about it. Or something like that.

It's called a bus.

Is there a tool that will parse a smartctl output and tell you 'good' or 'no good' ?

A judge ? And the world is not black OR white, you know.

In other words: "If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself."