Who do you sell your products/services to?

Because the entire world economy is doing just bloody great, isn't it! Not broken at all!

I see these statements all the time - unfortunatley they have become urban legend rather than having a basis in fact. Here's some reading:
http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/anti-global-heating-claims-a-reasonably-thorough-debunking/#m5
http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/anti-global-heating-claims-a-reasonably-thorough-debunking/#m18

Here's something for this observation too - http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-global-snowstorms-scientists.html

As a counterpoint for anecdotal evidence, you may want to read the news stories about record heatwaves through the US over the past month...

Isn't Squirrel just an interface? He's going to need something a little more than that - Postfix is the thing you need.

Now, having done exactly this for a long time (and having also moved everything over to Gmail for domains) I have a few observations:

- running your own email server gives you a warm inner glow and feeling of independence, but that's about it.
- check your logs daily, intrusion attempts happen constantly.
- dedicate the box to email only, that is - close down every port you don't need.
- don't run anything you don't need on that box.
- for the love of god don't run php (which might cut out squirrel mail).
- you'll need a set of good spam handlers. There's some good suggestions in posts below.

Personally, if you were really going to do this, I'd get a Mac mini. It comes with everything you need in terms of unix tools by default. It runs low power, it runs quiet. And there's slightly less chance of you getting owned. Always kep your patches up to date.

I eventually moved away from this because I got tired of being a paranoid sys-admin at home. Dealing with uptime issues also made me rethink what I was doing when email started to become critical to my finances - you'd be surprised how unreliable home dsl and power systems are when you really, really need them.

Solar doesn't require batteries. It can feed directly into the grid via an inverter. Solar panels are near 100% recyclable and most manufactures have free recycling schemes. The carbon payback from manufacturing is as low as 1 year.

You also need to stop thinking of solar as a domestic production source - that's just perverse. Solar on industrial scales is already approaching parity with coal power stations and was cheaper than nuclear last year.

And yes, yes, it doesn't produce power at night. Maybe you've heard of power storage, which is already used in many places to help balance grid loads.

There are plenty of challenges, but so many geeks have blinkers on when it comes to solar.

Let's apply free market mechanisms to nuclear power stations. Yup - awesome idea!

Global Fissile Crisis here we come...

The us military uses metric.

Actually, most solar systems have a 'carbon' (read energy + transport) payback period of about 1 year. It's really good tech, it's just a shame so many geeks are obsessed with nuclear and so buy into the whole bashing solar routine, so you hear this kind of rubbish everywhere.

What do you mean 'scale'? It's not a database or load server. Maybe you need some educating too?

Wind and solar are perfectly viable if there's a will to commit to them. Similar to the arguments surrounding new generation reactors, wind and solar today is not the same as wind and solar of 40 years ago. Geeks are obsessed with nuclear to the point of blindness - it's embarrassing.

This is a myth too. Between wind with storage and thermal solar with storage there's plenty to start from.

Broken up into what? What do they have a monopoly on....good design? Foresight? Attempting to make things useful for people rather than just geeks?

Which American company can produce high-speed trains?

I'll answer for you - none. This conversation doesn't include America. As much as that must pain the trolls.

Mate, why don't you just visit a country that has a functioning public health system. It shouldn't be hard, as pretty much every other 1st and 2nd world country has one.

Corporate America has been ripping off your health system for so long that you don't want it any other way. It's like a damn abusive relationship scenario or something.

Stop being a doosh.

Having noticed exactly the same thing, I had simply suspected that as Slashdot's popularity has grown it has become inhabited by very young impressionable guys, who's only experience (with computers, but thinking about it - extend that to almost anything) has been with Windows. Being young, male, and impressionable, they need to belong to a 'group' and it's easy to hate - and Apple is a very convenient target. Bashing Apple shows that you're 'one of the crowd' even though you've probably never used any system except Windows in your life. They get hints of what's 'accepted' by the crowd with the story summaries that are often written to inflame discussion to generate page hits.

It's self-reinforcing little world, and as a happy by product, may even encourage some people to use Linux. But what is most frustrating in this theory is the enormous amount of pure blind ignorance being channeled into the Apple hate.

Most of the Apple hate is venomous rants on issues that are at their heart the result of either absolute ignorance or intentional deception. Where you see intentional manipulation, I see a young immature burning desire to be accepted by something, anything. The true trait of a young isolated nerd.

The net result is the same however, and means that Slashdot is now largely devoid of moderating voices provided by experience people who have used more than 2 different operating systems in their lives, and for whom the choice of operating system is the selection of a tool to do a job, not a religion, and who probably have other healthy interests over being a full time nerd.

For other people stumbling across this comment - I'm not trying to flame, really. It's the honest observation of an old timer. One who seriously hope that this cuts too close to the bone of some of the crowd, as opposed to Bonch being correct.