What?

Steam on Linux will be nice.

Mostly it's Battlefield 3 and the likes (new games with shiny graphics and DRM), they won't work well or at all.

Wait, NASA doesn't encrypt its laptops? Why not?

Just use Bitlocker, it's enforced by GPO where I work. Or if on another system, truecrypt or just CryptFS.

Why is this an issue?

I've always looked at it as number of CPUs (physical chips), number of cores (total, on all CPUs), number of threads (total cores, with HT or not etc).

-way was a socket thing for me, but perhaps it's not.

8-way would mean 8 sockets on the motherboard, like http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/5U/5086/SYS-5086B-TRF.cfm .

Started with Slackware in the early days, then moved to Debian. Stayed with Debian until Archlinux showed up, been with it since. However, been trying out Ubuntu for a few years every now and then just to check it out.

We keep the management network and the production network on separate physical networks. So if you get into a box, you still can't IPMI to any other box.

Also, this is not hacking, it's by design.

I've noticed that when friends get faster internet access (100/10 or even 100/100) they tend to download less and less, and just stream the shows/movies they want to watch. For them loads of storage is not really necessary.
Of course you still have the odd one who wants to download everything in 1080p x/h264 rips at 8-20 GB a piece.

So, for people with slower speeds I can see they'd want to have more storage, as streaming is not an option. (no one rents discs anymore, there's a reason the shops are closing)

Also, for the technical side, how do you back up 10TB (or more)? I suppose it would be necessary to have 2 HDDs in RAID1 with ZFS on top or something, to prevent the effects bit rot etc.

How are you doin' ?

That'd be perfect. 6x 3TB in RAID6 on that baby... 12TB in a small box!

Wow it looks almost exactly like Google Plus

I'll bite. BF3 is not a competitor to MW4. It's a completely different game. MW4 seems like Quake the way it's played online. BF3 seems like... Battlefield. No other game has that feeling.

There's some magical feeling in BF3 like you're actually in a _war_, when you bring your entire team (32 or 64 players) rushing towards the enemy with tanks, helicopters, jeeps, snipers, infantry etc. MW4 (which I haven't played yet, I did play all the previous releases though) seems more like a console oriented death match clone.

The problems with the Sandforce controller has been fixed. But yeah OCZ were in the SSD game early and had a few flaky firmwares in the wild. All is good now though.

Isn't that more of the Japanese culture showing through (extreme respectfor elders) rather than companies not hiring "old people"?

Indeed! But don't call me Shirley.