You can still use OpenIndiana which is based on Illumos, the fork of OpenSolaris. A lot of the dev guys at Sun have left the company and now contribute code to the project.

In fact one killer feature is that they ported KVM to Illumos. Now you can run VMs and take advantage of the many features of zfs including deduplication.

That's funny, I read all of my local news on Facebook.

Unless they're talking about an application level firewall like mod_security what the hell good is a firewall gonna do? As long as port 80 is open it's going to be exploitable.

Yup. Perhaps it's time to start a more fan friendly league.

We're having a "Souper Bowl" Sunday at my church next week and we take donations for food. Wonder if we should watch out for the copyright police.

I actually have records that are all about learning CB lingo.

Unfortunately life requires you to be a bit rude sometimes, otherwise people will walk all over you.

Man up and say no, or start charging for access time. Does your school have a computer lab? There is absolutely no excuse for a college student to not have a laptop these days, or at the very least a netbook.

Let's say you meet a woman at the bar, buy her a few drinks and end up going home with her? Is that prostitution? Obviously something of value has been exchanged for sexual services. Same thing for dinner and a movie, if she sleeps with you and then never talks to you again does that make her a prostitute?

Escort services can argue that you're paying for time, not sex. If the escort just happens to be attracted to you what's the harm in that?

I have yet to see a Solaris box crash, and it's not like Linux never crashes either. Just ask our monitoring department about that...

If you're trying to say Linux never kernel panics you're dead wrong, we reboot servers all day long that have stopped responding or panicked for some reason. At least when Solaris panics it generates a crash dump so you can see WHY it crashed, on Linux servers I'm lucky if the console gives a clue.

I have 2 GB in my server and ZFS works fine. Besides, RAM is cheap now, I just put 24 GB in a server yesterday.

Solaris 10 with ZFS, if you actually care about your data.

Screw Ebay, put them on Craigslist.

Nah, they'll just attach it to one of the Democrats' massive spending bills.