Of course Oracle would point the finger at Flash.

If they waited until April 1st, they'd lose the element of surprise.

Really? The Dutch government does a decent job at being serious on maintaining security of their citizens' identification data and your first thought is to criticize them for overreacting? You've obviously never worked with sensitive data. Any decent admin's reaction should have been the same if it included the possible leak of sensitive data. This is an entire country's data. You have no idea what you're talking about and should just shut your pie hole.

You're right.

Mine was the IBM PS/1 2133 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/1). It came with 4MB, but was expandable to 16MB, which I eventually did.

My own post has a glaring error. Xeons didn't even come out until 1998. 1997 was a typo and was meant to be 1999, but it might even have been more towards 2000.

At the time, we were running slackware 3.5 or 3.6.

You're wrong, or you were technologically savvy enough to remember exact details on how you did it.

Before 1990, I was using a 386 with 4MB of ram. In 1991, my parents purchased a 486sx 25mhz with 16MB of ram for $1500. The hard drive was 170mb. If you had a gig of ram, why even need a hard drive? You must have just created ramdisks and had a blazing fast computer.

By 1997, I had colocated my first server on a pentium dual xeon 450mhz with 512mb of ram. This system cost upwards of $2k to build at the time.

I'm almost sure 386 had NO support for dimms. So you used simms? Were they 30 or 72 pin?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMM, 72pin simms did not replace 30pin simms until the mid 90's and were NOT present in 386's. 30pin simm sizes ranged from 256kb to 16mb while 72pin simm sizes ranged from 1mb to 128mb.

Before spamming us with your nostalgia, at least try to get your facts within a magnitude of the truth.

Over half a billion years. As far as we know, it's only been 13.75 billion years since (the|this most recent) big bang. That's 3.636% (repeating of course) of the age of the universe we've spent evolving our minds. And now we cast our gaze back over half a billion years in wonder.

Some individuals can be convinced to pay 4x what others will be charged for the same item. Pretty sure one can use George Lucas as prior art.

Screw smartphones and tablets. I want this for my backyard door. Time to hide a video camera and invite some friends over for drinks!

If you need reminding that there are good [insert class/culture/race/country here] people, what you need is not rely on the "impression you get from news" and do your own fucking research. Stop being good "sheeple".

Of course they only get pi hours of sunlight per day. The other pi is on the other side of the earth!

Why does it say SEX on the upper left hand corner? *Busts out the credit card*

The same is true for almost everyone. For a list of IPs too long for denyhosts to cover practically, try checking out ssh-faker.

Your example is just as bad. Because why would anyone befriend a homophobe in this day and age? Or even worse, the fundamentalist christian.

Around fall 2009, I went to NewEgg, searched motherboards by SATA ports and found a gigabyte mobo with 10 SATA ports that uses AMD chips. Intel's a bit too pricey. Around the same time, I got a reliable PC Power and Cooling PSU for $100. During Black Friday 2009, I picked up 10 2TB hitachi drives for $110 each. The gigabyte motherboard has 2 ethernet ports so it works great as a gateway/file server. 20 unformatted TB (14.3 tebibytes after raid6 for 2 drive failure redundancy) for about $1500.

No dealing with expensive NAS cases, expensive ass sata/raid controllers (lol 4 port sata controllers that cost $120 for a decent brand vs gigabyte motherboard with 10 sata ports for $150).