I'm guessing you're white?

I lived in Houston for 8 years. And Texas is indeed rascist -- not even Anise Parker has the power to change Rick Perry's laws. Look at imprisonment statistics, the capitol case involving a man sentences to death who didn't kill anybody (...but the law of parties is wonderful!) or the black man dragged behind the back of a pickup (which was in Weider [sic] IIRC).

You can say "I didn't see any bigotry". The KKK guy who slaughtered Jewish folk inside a synagogue was "Nice to other white people" according to its mayor.

Yahoo is the largest email provider on the planet and messenger is much more popular outside the US, much like Ali Baba.

And what is your response if they say yes?

Not if you got a first generation, the first ones had a design flaw that caused the wires to wear out where they came into the case (hard 90 degree bend). MS to their credit had the design fixed (Logitech was the ODM) and covered replacements for like 5 years even without proof of purchase, you just needed a first generation serial number.

The 4 series was built fairly well, but it was nothing compared to the beast that was the LJ 3 series. I once was called out to repair an ~15 year old LJ3 with just under 1M pages (at ~3PPM!). The reason it needed repair? The single sacrificial plastic gear had grown brittle with age, everything else in that beast was metal.

A well-regulated militia is the goal of the amendment

Then it has completely failed.

They've been peaceful the whole time, and did nothing more than provide a presence and protest. The only difference between them and Occupy $location is the presence of firearms

The Occupy folks didn't owe a bunch of unpaid fees to the government and hadn't been flouting the law for 20 years either. I seriously can't believe anyone would white-knight for Bundy.

Can't make a better product? Try FUD (TM) for all your business needs!

Unfortunately, IBM or Microsoft probably have a business method patent on it.

*ducks to avoid flying chair*

Bah, a pageful of links doesn't have the same weight as a ream of paper dropped on the table in front of each participant =)

Interesting, you're right the IODrive 2 brings MLC much closer to SLC, there's only a 2x performance delta on an IOPS/GB basis (270k 4k random writes vs 140k for 400GB vs 365GB), for the first generation (which I own a number of) the gulf was much wider.

SLC is ~10x the IOPS/GB for random writes compared to MLC, reads are generally only 20-30% faster.

Why write anything? Include the full expanded content from the MS KB article for the update, they generally run 1-5 pages each if printed on 8.5x11/A4

90% of your changes won't have any effect on production systems. Just lump those together under "Routine changes to UNIX/Linux production environments" and explain that you've tested those on your sandbox network.

10% of your changes will impact your production systems, even if it's just because it's upgrading Apache or some Perl module that your systems use. This can be as trivial as "updated Perl module; ran complete unit, load and regression tests, everything works fine." to "This is a kernel patch that requires us to power cycle each box. Here is our plan to do this in a way that generates no application downtime." Those are the changes CAB is meant to catch. Document each one in a different request. Document them clearly and thoroughly. Run them by people whom you trust to write good English. Make sure that your deployment, testing, and rollback plans are solid, and document them thoroughly in each request.

After a while, you'll get really good at this, and people will trust your requests.