I would recommend watching your SMART sector reallocation totals as an indication of drive health. As the drive starts aging, it will start needing to reallocate the weakest cells first, so you should get some warning.

I usually explain version control as working just like a library with a small twist. Imagine that this library holds paper notebooks that are partially used. You can go to the library, checkout a notebook, and write and erase parts of it while it is in your possession. Just like a library, if you have the original notebook, no one else can check it out -- you have exclusive rights to the notebook.

There is a bit of a twist that you can think of as working like an attentive librarian: every time the notebook is checked in, the librarian makes a complete copy and stores it in the reference section of the library. At any time, regardless of whether the original notebook is checked out, anyone can go to the reference section and read the reference copies of old versions. And, just like a regular library reference section, you cannot check those old copies out; they are read-only.

Word 2003 compare-and-merge
Word 2007/2010 compare-and-merge multiple docs

That's a lie. At least since Word 2003, there is a compare documents feature that you can use to make diffs of Word documents. Works fairly well unless someone really rototills a document with a ton of moves and rewriting.

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My money is on it scraping your entire phone book so they can cold-call... Maybe someone should add normal-looking phonebook entries connected to some Google Voice numbers and record the hilarity?

Stupid typos. The G and C are literally right next to each other*. Obviously this should be SourceForge.net.

*only applies to us Dvorak users.

Why bother with hijacking someone else system when you can just make a SourceForge project?

Just create a dummy SourceForce project. You don't actually have to attached any source files to use the bug tracker or other features.

From the release notes: "Nmap now supports the old-school Gopher protocol thanks to our handy gopher-ls NSE script. We even support Gopher over IPv6!"

I am deeply involved with party politics in my state. There is a deep need to get more technical people involved. Many friends I have talked to either "don't have the time" or think "it's so broken it can't be fixed". I say that the only reason it requires so much time and is so broken is precisely because normal everyday people aren't getting involved.

Politics takes time and energy, but it is run by those who show up. Please take time and get involved. I really couldn't care less which party you choose because the more people that get involved, the better the process will work. The SOPA fight was just the start. Let's get involved and show the world what this country can do.

If you're going to do RAID, seriously consider RAID6 over RAID5. Yes, the extra disk costs money and a port, but the bathtub failure probability curve suggests that after infant mortality and during the 20-30 hour RAID5 rebuild after a 1-drive failure, you have a significantly non-zero probability of a second drive failure (especially considering you'd be running it at 100% load for those 20-30 hours). My other solution is "rm -rf /*".

I know copyright is widely considered broken, but the speech is available to listen to here: http://www.archive.org/details/MLKDream

Hmm, posting from an iPhone apparently snarfs the line breaks...

I am also in the same area and Comcast Business Internet is a slam dunk if you can get it. The service reps and phone techs are completely different than the home/consumer experience. They have short hold times and the few times I have had outages or cable cuts (stupid building maintenance people!) I have actually been able to get same day on-site techs. They offer statics for a reasonable price and very good throughput. I have a couple different service tiers at different locations, with the highest being DOCSIS3 50/15 service. Let me tell you that it sure is fun to be able to download things at 4MB/sec if it is backed by a good CDN. I know their home customer service blows, but their commercial service is awesome. And they will install commercial service to a home. The only downside is that you can't get a TV+Internet bundle discount (but with DSL, you aren't getting that now anyway).