Since I am in the minority choosing better networking hardware I will post for a change.

I went from using a couple of 8 port unmanaged gigabit switches on my home network to one 24 port gigabit smart switch (an HP Procurve 1810G-24). I thought of buying Cisco but they want silly money for their 24 gigabit switches. I don't have 24 boxes but many of my machines have multiple NICs.

The real advantage for me is creating vlans - I do a lot of stuff with virtualisation using KVM and LXC and using vlans gives so much flexibilty when creating virtual machines.

I was thinking about this over the weekend and realised that that switch has had a significant impact on the way I work at home. Far more than any graphics card or hard disk. Though if I could be bothered voting a second time I would go for "some other option" and say that my multiple monitor setup has been a great move.

No it doesn't. There are green lines for Frodo & Bilbo and a yellow line for the Ringbearer which functions as an overlay. At the start it overlays Bilbo's line, then moves to Frodo's line. At points it overlays Sam & Gollum for short periods.

Why do we assume that the dangerous aliens developed the tech?

What if instead the galaxy is full of intelligent species and an advanced ethical species spread its technology to less ethical intelligent species without consideration of what would be done with that tech? What if that less ethical or more primitive species simply stole the tech?

Think of our own history where advanced European tech such as guns was rapidly absorbed by hunter-gatherer tribes. They couldn't make them but they could use them.

Imagine what we might do if tomorrow we obtained a fleet of FTL ships. Would we act ethically or go hunting for other planets to colonise? With certainty some of us would go marauding.

Can we get rid before weekend please?

I am on night shift Saturday and what should be a twelve hour shift becomes a thirteen hour shift.

Joy.

Course in past years I have worked the Spring clock change and you didn't hear me complain then about only having to work an eleven shift.