HHGTTG was first a radio show, and everything else is a derivative including 'That Movie'..

Sounds a lot like an unpopular tax.

I'm actually reading a book about filesystems with a focus on the BFS from Be Inc. The author in it actually says that renaming a file is the most complicated operation on a file. Before the file is renamed, lots of validation must take place in some implementations a rename locks the entire filesystem. The source and destination must be verified to be reachable and unused. The rename could go into another directory, so its must do the proper checks there as well. There are edge cases if the source or destination is a directory.

Its still seems like an O(1) maybe with a big 1, but this author spent a considerable amount of time on renaming.

I've got an SSD in my laptop, and I couldn't be happier. Its easily lengthened the life of my laptop by about 2 years.

I think the trojan writers already came up with this idea.

Give it up. Some people feel compelled on social networking sites to complain about people using social networking sites. I guess /. is different in that you don't have to use your real name.

I would frequently get stuttering with this setup, even just doing flac audio files.

I'm thinking of one of these:

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/home-entertainment/d3fe/

Any experiences here? It looks great from the description.

Yeah, ever since the enterprise drives and the 1 million hour MTBF, RAID arrays above level 0 have became obsolete.

We live in good times.

New to dell shops. Nice to meet you.

I have to call BS here. Dell servers come with 3 year maintenance at a minimum and will replace the power supplies. Power supplies are a known failure point on machines, and on those that care they get redundant ones. Also, I've never heard of SFF servers.

I work with well over $2mil of Dell servers and more than that from other vendors. I prefer Dells.

Idle. A joke. Content please...

Be patient, in 10 years .porn, .adult and .sex will be available as well. This will help to eliminate any confusion. TLDs are getting better all the time. What would we do without .mobi, .name, .museum, .biz, .coop, .info, .int, .jobs, .pro, .tel, and .travel?

TLDs are bullshit. Just search slashdot.com or slashdot.net if you don't believe me.

I don't buy stocks based on their current value. I buy them because I believe their future value will be more than what I'm paying now.

Its just like poker. You bet when you think you can win, doesn't matter what cards you have or what cards your opponent has. Statistically, the cards always even out. However, the better player either in stocks or cards always comes out ahead over time.

I've been saying this for years. Most people don't know about the different TLDs, and because of that most popular sites buy up the other TLDs that match their domainname to prevent people from squatting there, and they redirect (or not) the traffic to their "proper" TLD. Take for example http://slashdot.org/ http://slashdot.com/ http://slashdot.net./

I've always held that country code TLDs are of value. It sucks to do some online searching to buy something and end up at a .com address that is in the UK.

Actually, I don't dare type a URL in my location bar that is not already in my history and/or bookmarks that is automatically completed. Too dangerous if you misspell the sucker. Google is the real DNS provider. Sometimes names aren't what they would think they are either. EG, its not bmw.com, its bmwusa.com.

To belabor this stupid point further. WTF is up with .name and .museum ? TLDs have digressed from their original goal. To simplify and classify things. I mean, how is slashdot.org really a .org anymore? Its a commercial entity. What was ever the point of .net? .biz? And then countries sell off their TLDs like .to, .fm, and .tv, and those are rarely used.

Google (or similar) is the authoritative TLD master, the rest is just novelty.

Police: Do you have pictures of yourself on Facebook?
Me: Yes
Police: Are you a female?
Me: Yes
Police: Do you have small boobs?
Me: Err, umm, yes.
Police: We will be right there, thanks for turning yourself in.

For those that think I'm trolling: http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=australia+small+breast+law

Not sure what is going on down under these days.

The closest platforms to getting it right are Apple and Linux distros. I say that because they provide a central software base and can push out updates all coming from one place. If you use something like Windows, you have to get updates from Microsoft, your hardware manufactures and then your 3rd party software. AFAIK, Windows still does not come with a PDF viewer, and I think its time for 3rd party plugins to completely disappear from web browsers. I've held the plugin belief for over 10 years.

Even if I say that Apple and Linux are better, they too are broken. And then there are 3rd party apps that continually want you to upgrade them before you run them. Its obnoxious. I can't think of any consumer or professional piece of equipment that needs such care and feeding. If my car has issues (yeah car analogy), then there is a recall. Its a big deal. I would never drive a car that says, "Before you start your car, there is an important safety update, do you want to install that update or blow it off?"

I guess I'm saying that now that internet access is available via cell technology and wifi and wired devices, and I don't know of anybody that uses a compuer not connected to one of these things, that bandwidth needs to increase and "cloud" or computing as a service needs to become a reality. Sure, nobody trusts these big bad internet companies with their data besides the exceptions like online tax services, online banking, facebook and their ilk, ISPs with their logs and their email, ecommerce, and other random services. But maybe, just maybe in the near future there can be a stable computing platform.