That makes a lot of sense. Too bad Apple couldn't renew ahead of time, and avoid some of this pain. I'm deliberately not upgrading to iOS6 until they get Apple maps fixed, or Google ports their map app to iOS6. In the mean time, Ill give Waze a try.

For most server racks. probably not as there is a log of empty space in standard servers. Here at $WORK, we have a MAID array for archival storage. Since the drives in the unit only spin up (and get hot) when needed, the array contains many more drives than a standard disk array. This makes the unit quite heavy, and could overload the floor on some buildings. Luckily, this is on the first floor, so it won't come crashing through the ceiling.

He's right, you can get one here. Of course I've probably placed myself on some government agency watch list by posting this.

At some point in the future, those younger people will get older, likely get sicker, and hopefully get wealthier so this all evens out in the wash. If you're older and 'wealthier', then you'll have to get insurance now, which is a good thing.

That's called the 'Lovelace Factor': All software sucks, it's just a matter of how much it sucks.

Except he has a point. Some organizations still have an investment in a Solaris infrastructure. For some small to mid sized companies the M series are a too expensive for what you get, while the T3 is too underpowered for a database. Hopefully the T4 will try to fill that gap, especially in the price category. Will the T5 eat into other platforms? I have my doubts there as I think this is all in the 'too little too late' category.

It's too bad really, as Solaris is a nice OS. Time to work on yet another career course alteration.

That's the interesting question, isn't it. I dropped the streaming plan, because I rarely used it. Most of the streaming movies are a bit long in the tooth, so it's just not worth the extra money to use streaming once every few months.

That's a very interesting observation, and goes to explain a few situations I've encountered. I'd always assumed that most people tend to associate with others that are like themselves. Given a few similar candidates, they will hire someone that most closely resembles themselves.

Yep. My ISP is Speakeasy in San Jose, CA. You would think they'd support IPv6 in the middle on Silicon Valley, but you'd be wrong. I've got a NetScreen capable of IPv6, but no way to use it without a tunnel. Are you listening Speakeasy?

Too bad you posted anonymously (though I understand why you did), as some may miss this post. Until we get everyone on the same page as to who should be prosecuted, it's just going to be too easy to hide.

The parent sums PCI up very nicely. My company is looking at the feasibility of implementing PCI vs outsourcing credit cards. Since we would be a Tier 4 vendor, we would be able to do a self assessment. Talking with other companies in Tier 4 uncovered a wide range of compliance from almost nothing to almost complete compliance. If the web site you're giving your credit card to is not a Tier 1 vendor, be very very afraid.

I'm not a Sarah Palin fan, but I hope this gets modded up as informative. It's amazing how many famous people are misquoted (no, Al Gore never claimed he invented the Internet).

Sorry, until you eliminate the 75% vote necessary to pass a budget, you'll get a mess that pleases no one, and is late to boot. Now if we can get 76% of one party voted in, we might get something to happen. And yes, I'm a native Californian but not terribly proud of it at the moment.

Yet more anecdotal evidence: we had a proprietary database system running on a old Solaris 2.6 system circa 1998. I was able to move the binaries to a Solaris 10 system and they ran without any modifications at all. Try taking a binary that ran on a Linux system from that era and run it on a modern variant. You'd have to play games with libc to even think about getting it to run.

So we only have a few data points here; perhaps if a few other post their experience you might be open to looking at another point of view?