Yea, my favorite pans are my cast iron. I also like my stainless lined aluminum core pans.

However some of the modern non-stick materials are much harder than classic '90s teflon and are much more durable. I have very nice non-stick stovetop wok that is anodized aluminum and a very tough non-stick surface. I've used it in apartments for many years where I don't have a nice big wok burner that I use with my much larger carbon steel wok. The non-stick has held up for 8+ years with no problems. It probably won't out-last my carbon steel pan, but it does a good job.

I'm glad to see someone is finally pushing to replace the shitty old 19" rack spec.

Yea, This spec seems slightly light on some details that I would like to know.

Is the rack designed for one-side maintenance? I'm tired of the old design where you load a machine in the cold isle, and then have to walk around to the hot isle to plug the cables in. I want everything on the cold isle so I can have the datacenter duct the hot air directly into the heat exchangers. From what I can tell I think this is true for the openrack design, but it mostly talks about form factor.

The second thing I would LOVE to see is the elimination of rack rails. Fucking hell I'm tired of every brand and model having a different type of rack rail. I'm also tired of the random depth sizes for these rails. Sometimes a rack rail will only have half an inch of adjustment and I can't even bolt down the back of the rail since it won't reach the depth we have our rails set to. It looks like they're doing some kind of built-in standard tray shelf. This is great.

kvm and drbd on 12.04. It's been running fairly well except for a qemu bug that causes the network (bridged) to stall. I'm going to be testing a patch that will probably hit release soon that fixes the bug.

I run a co-op VM cluster on Ganeti. We bought 3 supermicro 1U single-socket machines (12-core AMD, 64G of ram) for about $7,000. We have about 60% of our capacity rented out. The nice part is we allocate based on 1G of ram slices so you get a pretty powerful minimum server.

Or they actually back up the cloud to tape:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-everyone.html
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/google-restoring-lost-gmail-data-from-tape-backups-2011031/

It's kinda amazing that I can get Magic Hat #9 on the west coast. Good stuff. Do you ever see Russian River over there?

The biggest problem here is that you need a car for "every day trips to the store". Sorry, but this is a problem with city design. I don't own a car because I can walk or ride a bike to the stores I visit regularly. Sometimes I do want to pick up a few things that won't fit easily on my bike. So I grab a zipcar for a few hours, or maybe the day. I can do all of the heavy lifting stuff like the twice a year trip to the store to pick up a 6 month supply of cat litter or something like that. I average about $100/month in zipcar costs over the year. Zipcar use includes gas as well. If I owned a car, I'd probably be spending $400-500/month on payments, gas, insurance, and off-street parking in my apartment. Sure, I could buy some shit box, but if I own a car I want something nice. I typically get the Audi A3 zipcars for running errands during the week and I still save money over owning one.

Why does more power matter? You're missing the point. It's about weight and agility. Avoiding accidents rarely has anything to do with power. You want to be able to stop quickly to avoid hitting anything. Or turn quickly to avoid an object.

Yea, I would much rather be driving a Fiat 500 than an F150. The Fiat can get out of the way or stop much faster than an F150. Just being able to avoid an accident beats size way more often.

The fact that people have given up avoiding accidents is a sad description of the state of driver education in the US.

Yup. I eat just about anything I want and as much as I want. I put 4000-5000 miles on my bicycle per year.

I setup a network for a school a long time ago (1997). We filtered nothing, but here's how the network worked.

Each student had a NIS login and a NFS homedir. All web traffic went through a squid proxy. All of the desktop PCs were Linux (RH 4 or 5 at the time, I forget)

Basically we had a reasonably good way to do two things:
* Know which students were on which computers at what time.
* Know exactly what sites they were hitting.
* We loudly and repeatedly reminded the students that they were monitored.

Of course this was not a foolproof solution, but it was good enough to keep the students in line. If someone at that school was smart enough to get around the proxy, they probably earned the right to do so. We had no problems with that school. We even put the "troublemaker/hacker" kids to work keeping the crappy PCs up and running instead of doing stupid shit like ban them from computers. They took pride in the responsibility.

Yea. I've been slowly growing out of just jeans/tshirts for a while. About 5 years ago I decided to get in better shape and stop dressing like a slob. Of course that doesn't mean dropping the relaxed jeans and t-shirts altogether. I also didn't want to be a boring suit or wear awful business casual crap. I see enough of the cookie cutter kahki-and-baby-blue-shirt bros around. Worse yet is the ones that can't even get button down shirts that fit them properly. It's like they're a baby-blue hot air baloon.

Here's what I've been doing recently:
* Properly fitted non-faded jeans unless the fading works with the shirt. It doesn't have to be skinny hipster jeans, but it should fit better.
* Nerdy shirts, but never if it's a haynes square cut T. They have to be similar cut to the American Apparel standard fit T. Get rid of the baggy shit.
* Some button down shirts, but never baby blue, pink or some shit unless it's fitted or has some style. The best ones I have are custom taylored. There's a few places online that will make you taylored shirts for dirt cheap. I got mine from http://taylorstitch.com/
* I've got a personal taste for wool suit vests. They work well with un-tucked shirts and arn't as boring as a normal suit.

If you gotta wear a suit, don't goto a department store unless you want to look like a sales droid. There are a ton of small to medium size designers out there that have much more cool stuff.

Boring white button down shirt? Hell no, try this:
http://storeroom.nicecollective.com/men/shirts/higgs-button-up.f11-5129/

Polo shirts? Bleh.
http://www.shopskunkfunk.com/#view=details&item=ABENE-MN1

Sales robot suit? Nope.
http://www.johnvarvatos.com/Cotton_Hook_And_Eye_Jacket/pd/c/66/np/66/p/4173.html

And if you're not brave enough to run it yourself, you can donate to exit nodes like NoiseTor - http://noisetor.net/ or to Tor itself.

Hi, I help run an exit node. Specifically NoiseTor - http://noisetor.net/ Yes, we do get police/FBI/etc calls regularly. Most of the time it takes a few min of explaining what tor is, we have no logs, and there's nothing we can do to help track down where the traffic came from.

It's invaluable to run exit nodes, and the risks are fairly minor.

Yea, it would be easy to tell bed/wakeup/cooking times. But smart meters where I live (PG&E) only sample at 15 min increments. That's not enough of a sampling resolution to detect much more than large appliance use.