Off-topically I have to say that "Shachar Shemesh" totally rolls off the tongue. :) Cool name. Oh, and there's a misspelling on your front page; it's "Know-how", not "know how".

... and no battery life to speak of.

Little nit-pick: The guy in the vid says that the tones are interrupted to represent data. This is wrong, the tone actually switches frequency. It's called Frequency Shift Keying.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_103_modem

Just goes to show ya that MIT guys will crack a nut using a bulldozer. There's plenty of dedicated level-meter chips around which cost next to nothing and provide a better, logarithmic response, which is what you want for sound.

The LM3915 is an oldie but a goodie, you can even daisy-chain them.

See http://www.national.com/mpf/LM/LM3915.html

I stopped reading at "...I don't think its to bad." (second paragraph.)

I'm sorry, but I can't possibly trust the opinion of a reviewer who can't write.

Considering that I calculated 27 years of error-free continuous writes, I decided that a bit of swapping was fine. Heck, I was more concerned by atime originally.

It's working fine. What throughput speed I lost is countered by zero random access times, so it's pretty zippy.

I've been running my home desktop/server (Linux 2.6) on a Sandisk Cruzer 8GB usb stick (root, swap, tmp, everything except large media files) for a year and four months without any glitches. I've napkin-calculated that at current usage and wear levelling, I should be able to use it for over 50 years without a failure. Funnily enough, the portable USB drive that I use to back it up failed last December. I keep multiple backups, I didn't flinch.

Then again some flash devices fail miserably and silently. I've had a few 64MB and 128MB stick batches with stuck bits, and those were practically new. The operating systems they were used on didn't detect the errors, I did, by trying to open garbled files.

My wish list: A SATA gizmo that has 4-5 USB connectors with each their own bus that presents itself to the SATA bus as a single drive, and does RAID-5 automatically. That'd be sweet.

I've run out of fingers and toes trying to count the number of inefficient perl scripts I've replaced with much faster and simpler shell scripts. Bad code can be written in any language.

Well, he freed us from spam three years ago, so he's probably our best hope against malaria.

And he'll promptly stuff that piece of paper in his laptop bag only to be stolen at the next airport.

People are insecure.

Geez, I've been watching a lot of cutesy Japanese anime for a long time and some of the girls in the ecchi stuff I like appear very very young.

Maybe I should start thinking about whole-disk encryption. :)

sed 's/ Abrahamic//;s/ actually//;s/ morally.*/./'

There, fixed that for you. :)