The plural of anecdote is not data.

Wow, I'd love to hear your opinion about things you have no experience with and have strong suspicious about.

How do you expect to be seriously talking about stuff you claim to not really know about?

I suspect you could benefit by taking a step back, re-reading your post, and spending some time reflecting on your own biases.

I had no idea Rick Ross went after the CoS when not rapping.

I, like many of you here was wondering what the hell this could possibly be useful for, up until I viewed the video.

The answer, clearly, is porn.

It all makes sense now!

I love rdiff backup but I'd never use it on any large datasets. I attempted to use it on ~ 600 GB of data once with about 20GB of additions every month and it ran dog slow. As in taking 6+ hours to run every day (there were a lot of small files, dunno if that was the killer).

For larger datasets, like what the poster has, I'd go with a more comprehensive backup system, like bacula. I use that to backup about 12TB and it's rock solid and fast. There's a bit of a learning curve, but the documentation is very good.

If Bacula is too intimidating rsnapshot would be a viable route, it's similar to rdiff-backup, but simpler (pretty much just rsync + cp using hard links), faster, and easier to use. It's not as space efficient, but diffing video data is probably a waste of time anyway.

I'm pretty sure I saw the clip you were talking about. There were 2 guys with guns at the rally, one white, one black. During the newscast something got messed up, the reporter was talking about the white guy while pre-recorded footage of the black guy was playing. The reporter pointed this out while this happened, admitting to the screw up. I don't think anything intentionally disingenuous was going on, just a garden variety fuckup.

That's funny, because my single blade, double edged Merkur Heavy Duty has blades that cost ~50 cents (for top quality blades) and it shaves better than the fusion I used to use.

Those Fusion refills are ridiculously priced, at lots of markets they put em behind locked glass. That said, the fusion shaves better than a 2 bladed cartridge razor, and there's no learning curve.

I've run it on windows in FF and had issues as well, even with Java installed. Of course some of my DRACs are fairly old, but even the DRAC5s have been problematic for me. Maybe I need to update the firmware, an operation which, surprise, doesn't work right on ubuntu (Dell really only supports RHEL and their firmware upgrades sometimes refuse to work on ubuntu).

Ah yes, Dell Remote Access Controllers have a shitty as hell web interface that only seems to work in IE. I think it's supposed to work in firefox but it never has for me.

I read somewhere that's because Flash video decodes to RGB while X likes YUV video, so flash video can't use XV. If you try playing any video without XV it'll be slow and stutter.

That said, for some reason flash video plays much better on my nvidia card at work than my ati card at home.

The idea: use androgen ablation or hormone therapy to ignite an immune approach â" a pilot light â" and then, after a short interval of hormone therapy, introduce an anti-CTLA-4 antibody that acts like gasoline to this pilot light and overwhelms the cancer cells.

Fry: Usually on the show, they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmmm... If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!

The reason this is stupid is because none of those things really have anything to do with a computer.

The reason this is offensive is because it shows how dell thought women were too stupid to recognize this.

Any time someone has a dissenting opinion against a liberal the liberal only seems capable of defending their argument with insults and threats.

Ummmmm, every ideology has a subset of people who behave this way.

Saying stuff like this helpfully labels you as being the kind of rabid fundamentalist you're accusing your opponents of being.

I know most of these comments aren't too serious, but oddly enough his experience with notes is part of why couch has turned out so well.

His experience with notes is pretty relevant as notes and couchdb are both document oriented databases. CouchDB is VERY different than notes in a lot of ways, Damien designed Couch with a lot of the problems of notes in mind. So, you can think of his time with notes as time he spent learning what not to do.

IBM funds CouchDB development through Apache paying Damien. They initially wanted him to work for IBM as a regular employee he told them he was unwilling to work in that corporate structure, leading to the current compromise.

Damien Katz, CouchDB's creator, worked at MySQL prior to writing CouchDB, and worked on Lotus Notes prior to that...

You've got a point, to an extent, I didn't make a list of successful rails deployments. Let's fix that with a list of successful rails apps:

http://rubyonrails.org/applications