For individuals or for business, the site could offer alternatives and/or solutions to common problems. It can also promote open standards for others to follow.

e.g. replacement Office suite = Libre Office, ProTools = Audacity, SAP ERP = OpenTaps, OpenBravo, etc.

You can setup case studies to advocate the use of open source software and solutions.

This wouldn't just apply to software. You can also throw in hardware designs too (I'm thinking Arduino stuff).

A source of income could be companies that advertise on the site, offering their expertise in setting up open source business systems.

# /usr/sbin/freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE upgrade

I run web servers for a few dozen clients, and rebooting a remote machine was always scary. There was the possibility that something might not boot up during startup (e.g. SSHd) and I would be locked out. I would then have to travel to my data center downtown (about 30 minutes away) and troubleshoot the problem. Since I don't have 24/7 access to the DC (I don't have enough business with the DC to warrant an owned security pass...) I have to wait until they open to the general clientèle in the morning.

With ESXi, however, I'm not that scared anymore. If something does go wrong, I have a console to the VM through vCenter client (the application that manages virtual machines on the server). It's happened once where a significant upgrade of FreeBSD 7.2 to 8.1 was problematic. Coincidentally, it was because I didn't upgrade the VMware tools (open-vmware-tools port). Nonetheless, I managed to fix the problem through vCenter.

This is why I love virtualization in general. It's making managing servers easier for me.

I've downloaded a few e-books (PDFs) and upon opening them, were greeted with the seeder's or creator's homepage (or affiliate URL). One of the books I downloaded was about day trading. The person who put together the PDF injected his homepage and services in the first 2 pages of the book. Does he make money? Who knows. Does he get a few visits to his website for a bit of work? Yup.

To be honest: sometimes. It usually gives me a good idea on what the problem might be, but yes, there is no actual "expert" advice since the content is user-generated.

I already asked this question right above you, but:

Did you ever scroll down to see the answer on EE pages?

It says Google will manually check sites once enough data is gathered by users. They may just white-list EE since they are somewhat useful.

Which leads me to the following question: why is everyone here against EE? Is it because they attempt to charge you for the answer?

Has anyone ever scrolled down the page to see the answers? I'm not trolling. I've never paid a dime and always got an answer... irrelevant to whether it was right or wrong.

Because YouTube offers 720p, 1080p and now 4K?

Sandy Bridge is the successor to Nehalem. It uses less power and is more efficient.

The current P67 boards (LGA 1155) are for the mainstream market, e.g. Best Buy, Futureshop, Fry's, Staples, etc. They're basically "high-end' for the middle-class.

Wait until LGA 2011 comes out (successor to 1366). You'll be thinking of switching then. :)

That 50$ a year fee goes to maintaining servers and paying for XBL staff. In my opinion, I find XBL to be an overall better service than PSN.

Take a look at Corsair 700D case.

He puts on his robe and wizard hat...?

At my office, we have a digital fax machine that does not use any paper. When a fax comes in, a TIFF document is created. That means a dozen pages are neatly kept in a browseable .tiff document. No ink or paper is used. Junk fax? I just delete it.

I'm pretty sure a company like Paypal has a system like this, especially when they need to scan a barcode to classify your document (when I faxed them a signed document, a cover page with a barcode was supplied by them).

These kids need to put their minds to better use...

I've been running Exim on two servers for the past 5 years now. Never had a problem either.

WikiLeaks were collecting donations using MasterCards and VISA as forms of payment on their website, up until the two giants pulled away because they didn't want to be associated with the website.