This might be a mistake on your side - AFAIK the Ubuntu team plus their beta-testers are mostly focused on upgrades from one previous version, PLUS previous LTS version of Ubuntu. So upgrades between LTS versions are usually well tested and discrepancies documented, if not solved before release.

So to get out of the cycle, just wait for next LTS version expected in April 2010, and then wait for another LTS version... unless they change their release process in the meantime :-)

Also, for bonus political points, periodically asking neighboring countries to shut down their nuclear power plants or stop building new ones :-)

RAID 10 would offer them the ability to lose 1/2 the drives for a smaller performance penalty than losing 2 drives in a RAID 6.

No, two dead drives in the same pair and the array is toast on raid 10. Two drives and the RAID 6 they described survives.

One of these rack units can survive at least two drive failures, but can survive zero power supply failures. I've pitched many more dead power supplies than hard drives. If the power supply dies during a write (RAID + no battery backup + two parity drives), consider the array corrupted.

The RIAA and MPAA would have you believe that each man, woman, and child has downloaded at least that much illegal movies and music.

-4 Troll, -2 Redundant, +2 Interesting.

Looks like you don't even need to state an opinion to fall victim to the Slashdot Groupthink now.

moderation undo (sorry for OT)...

Re checkbox - users with subscription have those, maybe someone gave you subscription as a gift?
Re worries and suicide - I was more worried about some crazy drunk picking wrong target (you) than anything.. the diary entries show that you've got pretty strong mind :-) Glad to hear from you again.

You should think about what you say! You just want the dissenter to shut up and go exile, because he thinks the current system (the best one, as you say) can still be improved.
From this I can only concur you're working in government and your position depends on the "grease" (pork etc.) that oils the hands of both plutocratic parties that are currently ruling over the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I was worried too.. glad to see you back :-)
Regarding the book, that would be a good idea. Maybe collecting all the articles and making a PDF or e-book, or maybe the dead-tree thing from low-cost publisher (we're all after the content anyway).

/me sees advertisers claiming that their "targets" are circumventing their double-ROT-13 content protection algorithm.. and asking DMCA-style action agains them.

(for mods.. i'm not sure if this is funny or prophetic)

Maybe they found out that optical tracking of clouds doesn't work reliably ;-) Or they got a late-night visit of sorts...

In my opinion, the hardest thing on learning English is its spelling - many languages have "write as you hear" spelling, or something pretty close to that. Although there are some spelling rules in English, most people just have to read through large texts for their brain to accomodate the way English words are written. As I see it, there are even exceptions in exceptions ;-)

On the other hand, conjugations and declensions are simple to nonexistent in English, which gives students time to absorb the rest of grammar (mainly pronunciation, tenses, and structure of sentence).

Although this study seems quite professional, I see one white spot that could validate or invalidate their data. After the circumsizion, men are somewhat protective of their manhood and if they have sex, it's more likely to be protected sex. For more data on this point, see http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/281ADC9B-AB02-49BE-AC1E-6A986B5823B2.asp

So, can anyone tell if the researchers tried to get statistics of intercourse counts (either total or protected/unprotected) in both groups, and whether their results have taken this disproportion into account?