1) Cheap tower server + your favourite unix distro + software RAID + many, many cheap 2TB drives.

2) Standalone NAS device. Everyone so far seems to recommend different makes so I'll carry on the trend and suggest Thecus. Just slot in the drives and you're ready. Install the SSH module and you also have a Linux server too.

So was I the only one who crossed their legs while reading the story?

Cool video but probably not as impressive when you don't load from the page cache and add network latency and overloaded webservers to the mix.

I know we joke about "World Robot Domination" but why do we seem to be trying to get there as fast as possible!?

Even if this is completely unrelated to the SyFy series, Singer is not a small name in the movie business. So if it gets more people interested enough to watch the TV show, I can't say it's a bad thing.

You forgot the most important change of all.

They added support for "goto".

This is Slashdot, we like to laugh at and feel superior to all the peons who install bad software.

Normally it starts with "Win" and ends with "Doze".

My personal server gets a few more mails than the poster.

# of SPAM Week Ending
  172709 Aug ** (only 5-day stats)
  198878 Aug 10
  217882 Aug 3
  207318 Jul 27
  230533 Jul 20
  265463 Jul 13
  311635 Jul 6
  450349 Jun 29
  311850 Jun 22
  225500 Jun 15
  317484 Jun 8

Make of those stats what you will ...