What do you think ILO/ILOM, DRAC, RSA, etc. do on x86 servers? Those have their own CPU/storage/OS/network to manage the server remotely even if the main CPU gives out the magic smoke. A sysadmin can use it to wipe out and reinstall the server's OS and perform firmware upgrades without even walking into the server room.

What I gather from this is that they managed to print the memory and the circuitry to read/write it. So, instead of requiring a mechanical transport and a magnetic head, you simply connect wires to contacts along the edge of the circuit, and use electrical signals to access the data, eliminating the need for moving components.

The i-MIEV is made by Mitsubishi.

So do I. Before I start the X server I put my Quaker hat on and then say "HA! HA! I AM USING X11!" and everyone around looks at me saying "WTF is this weirdo talking about?" so I have to put the hat away and shut up. Nobody appreciates good software and hats these days.

I came here hoping to see the N900 listed. Thanks for not letting me down. I still miss my N900, two years after inadvertently walking into the Atlantic Ocean with it in my trunks. If the Neo900 manages to produce something within a reasonable time frame, I'll be able to resuscitate it.

Can someone explain why APNG would be preferable over MNG, besides wider application support? I haven't followed these projects closely, and it seems counterproductive to me to develop a new standard when an apparently serviceable one already existed.

Encrypted communication on amateur radio bands is prohibited by law in the US, so transmitting an encrypted signal just invites spooks to triangulate your transmitter's position.

Frying eggs with a CPU is old hat.

My son used to play a silly little match game that he picked up from pre-school when he was three years old. In it, he would take two toys -- cars, action figures, Lego blocks, staple removers, whatever -- hold them in his hands, and ask "Which one are you, X or Y?" After the other person (usually me) answered, he'd act out some sort of epic battle between the two toys in his hands, and then declare one or the other the victor. I always pointed out to him the pointlessness of the game. He didn't care.

Jeff Cogswell's reviews remind me of that game. They're pointless. He doesn't care. And my son grew out of it.

Another explanation that I've heard is that insurance fraud is rampant over there, so people have taken to the dashcams in order to protect themselves.

Slashdotters don't have sex, and so they cannot have slashdaughters. Ergo, slashdaughters do not exist. QED.

If you're going for speed, you'd be better off serving the HTTP direct from Tomcat and cutting Apache or IIS out of the loop entirely.

Tc-native supports HTTP, HTTPS, and AJP, so you still get native code to handle your sockets whether you want to put a separate HTTP in front of Tomcat or not. The Java-based connectors might be fast, but the native connectors are even faster.

... he then completely does an about-face and deploys the Tomcat on Windows-- a configuration I've actually never seen and which has to give C# a bit of an advantage...

The official Tomcat installer for Windows (as in, the one that you'd download from tomcat.apache.org installs the Tomcat Native Connector, which improves performance considerably. And there's a lot of vertical market applications for Windows that bundle Tomcat.

Just in time for Halloween. Thanks!

The seven-layer cake is a lie.