Congratulations, you've achieved your goal of looking like Ars Technica. Can we go back to the design it was back in the 90s again?

not sure why this got modded down. Has anyone ever tried to setting up three monitors? I recently converted my workstation from Windows which worked quite well for gaming and multi-monitor support. On-board nvidia gpu had one monitor and the amd/ati pci card connected the other two. Can't do that under X. So now I'll have to buy another PCI card. But wait, commercial drivers are buggy and Xscreensaver is a mess, I can't use text virtual consoles, but I use open source drivers which fixes that, steam wont run. Running Ubuntu? Having the fear of god every time a system update or reboot is not ideal, but about half the time something bad will happen. BSD? nothing is written for it. I've been running X in some form on some machine since the early 90s on a 386. For a while, the unix desktop was the way to go, but for years Windows or OS X is vastly superior in a desktop environment - you know, actual drivers exist. Thank god for virtualbox at least.

The *nix desktop is still a p.o.s. since i've been around here.

I wonder how long they really were shopping it around.

Not since the 28.8 days when it was still relatively new. The place I was living at the top was one of the first community broadband implementations.. fiber wasn't even laid yet, just existing analog cable network. And it was freakin' awesome.

I can confirm the above is true.

Was he too busy treating people horribly to audit his DR procedures?

You do realize that commercial jet airliners are for the most part flown via a software program, right? The pilots have manual overrides which I'm sure a self driving car in the future would as well - and I realized roads/expressways are much more congested than at 30,000+ ft but the point is that we have a metallic tube with wings, flying around the globe that is mostly computerized these days, and the most dangerous thing about that is getting inside a human controlled car to drive to get to said plane.

You forgot to mention Slashdot :)

If you have a lot of static content, eg, css/js/gpf/gif/swf/png/bmp, etc and do not have access to CDN, at least put an nginx proxy in front of it that loads it all, and forwards the rest off the content to apache (or better yet, just migrate completely to nginx if possible). Does your app have any caching at all? Would memcached be beneficial? Running a stack trace on all http/php processes should give you an insight as to what is going on. Sometimes it;s lacks of resources, sometimes it's something as simple as a buffer needing to be increased somewhere.

I miss downloading "fixpack" disks onto floppies and inserting them one at a time... not really :P

I had no idea, thanks for the info.