Point being is there are no regulations that mandate cable providers (as ISP's or not) provide any level of protection against power outages. On the other hand, land-line providers are required to maintain battery AND generator backup. Cell towers are also exempt. Most have battery systems that will last for up to 60 minutes (most will not last that long due to battery age) and almost none have permanent generators.

Your only safe bet is POTS in a large scale power outage.

I appreciate the follow up, and good job on the server uptime.
Got to love having:

Stable OS
Stable Hardware
And most importantly, Stable Power

I agree with you for the most part; I administered a large number of Solaris servers that had 800+ days uptime. However, does your non-privileged user not have access to the load average?

High uptime numbers are impressive, but not so much on an idle machine.

replying to my own crap reply.

Didn't dawn on me, the relationship between Novel and Mono project. My previous comment is null/void

I don't think this would affect the major, commercially supported distros, such as RHEL -- their adoption to the latest/greatest in packages lags quite a bit (with good reason). Mono would have to become way more relevant in every aspect of the server and desktop. I just don't see that happening (and if it does, Novel and RedHat will have none of it).

Regarding the Linux users and enthusiasts, they will cut Mono off in a heartbeat. It's a very dynamic group and I suspect the developers will find a workaround or rebuild with other tools.

According to the second link in the summary, WCF and LINQ to SQL have been addressed in Mono 2.6.

I am only guessing here as to why -- no sources and no research.

I am assuming there is more regulation and licencing required on electronic devices than power tools. Hence stricter requirements, increased labor to bring to market and liability concerns.
OR perhaps the cost of the cell used in laptops is higher from the battery manufacturer (he didn't mention individual cell size).

Of course, the other option is companies trying to make a few extra dollars/pounds/yen/etc. However, the author of TFA seemed to be on more of a rant than a research mission.

Funny, Al Gore is going to profit the from all of his.

He is nothing more than a marketing man for carbon credit trading. He is the chairman for Generation Investment Management, partnered up with the former CEO of Goldman Sacks.

How convenient.

Mod parent up.

This is scary as hell. When there is no risk of (negative public opinion) losing your boys while still killing theirs, there is no incentive to declare war only as a last resort.

The image you choose is used by Countrywide (BofA) to provide you with the verification that you are not signing into a phishing site, not as part of your login credentials.

I ran into this same issue on a fresh XP install inside VirtualBox. Ignore it for a few hours; I performed regular tasks such as installing the multitude of updates, installed a few apps and noticed later on the process behaved as you would want/expect.

If I recall correctly from my Marine Corps days, the high/low beam switch is mounted on the floor in a HMMWV. Not sure about the consumer models (Arnold Schwarzenegger type, not the refrigerator-on-wheels).

Agreed. Solaris' cron is a bit of a hassle. But I edit cron as needed for projects. Not a HUGE impact on usability. It is Solaris at its core, so binary compatibility needs to stay in place for legacy support.
However, OpenSolaris also comes with GNU binaries (which are conveniently already in the default path). To differentiate, they are called gtar, ggrep, etc (mind you, not every single GNU tool is in there).

At a loss of what you mean here. ZFS, brandz/zones and crossbow are huge; not sure what is specific to them that is significant over OS.

I'm a Solaris admin; which can make me a bit of a Sun snob, but this was not meant to be a OpenSolaris is superior to Linux comment. They both have their place for each individual (I have tried both options, and continue to bounce between the two today). In my opinion, the Linux community could take something away from the OS communities rules on packaging. Find a compromise. I may just give StormOS a try to get the best of both worlds.

I have been using OpenSolaris development builds for over about a year now(?).

One thing I thing the Linux community could take from OpenSolaris is its concentration on the approval and standardization of applications, so long as you stay on the OpenSolaris repositories. There is pretty much one tool for each job. That's it -- generally speaking of course.
It is exactly why the Linux community shun it (cannot find binaries of specific software). When I use a Linux based OS, I feel the ADD in me kick in; too many options. I cannot imagine I am alone.

Anyhow, I think OpenSolaris is rock solid and a powerful option for people to try. It may not have all the bells/whistles of Ubuntu, but it aids me in getting my work done very efficiently.

FWIW, I purchased the Fluendo codec pack, which made a huge impact on usability -- I need my tunes while working. Well worth the money IMO.

Not sure why he states not to do that.
Granted, if the volume of traffic for a kindle goes way up beyond what Amazon and Sprint negotiated, there would be flags raised.
I'm sure there are some data usage catch-all's buried in the license agreement.