Woops, slashdot ate my "less than" sign, for anyone who cares. The home NAS setup with ZFS on Linux is killer for under 500 bucks, probably cheaper now since I've built it. ZFS on Linux is the way to go for sure, most cost is the Disks, I'm using 2 green cavalier 3Tb drives (bought an extra just in case but I'm not running any strenuous i/o). Hudson green processor, mini-atx, SSD head, 8 Gb ram all in a HTPC (with hdmi out and XBMC as well) case.....yum.

Well, interestingly enough, I have baked 6 pi's for myself and friends and family, mostly making them into XBMC media centers, and I saw an MK808 mini pc stick for a descent price before christmas so grabbed one to compare...

Just arrived in the mail today, I'm at my office now but intially I must say it is snappy.

I downloaded and installed XBMC in less then 2 minutes and was streaming cheesy college humor in 3.

That is to say after 2 random crashes of Jelly Bean (android 4.1) right off the bat... one blue screen that made me reminisce of how bad windows 95 was.

2 more crashes with XBMC Beta RC2 since demo'ing it for the guys here who aren't up on the latest gadgets...so lets see that's 4 crashes in less then 15 minutes, no heavy use and I can't imagine its over heated as its dangling in the air off one of our 60 inch plasmas....I guess the jury is still out though, I'm done playing with it for now as I'm working, but maybe after initial configuration (haven't set locales yet or anything) and see if an update is available, maybe it will be more stable. If not, it's going back. I can understand a crash or two on XBMCs beta, but the OS it shipped with itself!? I'm almost tempted to send back now.

For what its worth, it is very snappy and the streams I did watch were of good quality and wireless. I'll be headed to Thailand for 3 weeks and wanted to incorporate it into my travel pi setup for back-hauling photos too my home NAS (ZFS on Linux FTW, dual core green processor, 6 TB of Green Disks in a Zpools zfs raid for
Definitely was worth the money for me to see if its feasible.

Dual Core E450 Hudson ASUS Mobo IGP... 2 3TB Cavalier Green Drives in a ZFS Raid Mirror, 60 Gb SSD 8 Gb Ram all in a micro ATX HTPC case $500 kickass low-power green redundant storage array with HDMI Out and Lightscrivbe DVD burner .... and did I mention 3 TB redundant mirrored storage?

I will be patenting the "Steal ideas and designs from Star Trek and patent them business process" mwhuahahahaha... HA!

wait what!? lol, its Freedom of Speech he's talking about.... not Freedom of Punching People in the Face. What are you on about? While this is Australia we are talking about, regardless here in the US we have enough laws that cover this already but they should be treated under already relevant sections, stalking, libel etc. Big man punch hard, I bet. All religion is bullshit btw, and you are more then welcome to try to punch me in the face.

We just started rolling out a bunch of these:

The chassis supports 240 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports[3] and is future-ready to support 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.[4][5] The system also supports Shortest Path Bridging,[6] for network-wide service abstraction and orchestration (which may involve tens or hundreds of nodes), and Switch Clustering which delivers multi-device virtualization and high availability (typically deployed as pairs). This product can also maintain over 4000 VLANs and IP interfaces with support for up to 10k Static IP Routes, and an IP Forwarding Table capacity for 500k entries. Some more technological performance measures stack up as follows:

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It's called robots.txt, look it up. This is already a non-issue. Greedy ppl want more money, news at 11. Where's moped yahweh?

Agreed. They should be charged with a count of perjury and falsifying evidence for EVERY DUI they had their dirty little hands involved with in consideration to these devices.

Wow, I suspect that most wouldn't have gone to jail! See how easy suspecting shit pulled out of your ass is? Stay tuned, now I will suspect what will happen to these cops: Nothing except a paid leave as their blue buddies "investigate" the issue then laugh about it over beers at the local brothel.

Just Curious Michael, whom do you think is NOT an idiot? I only ask because I've never seen you compliment anyone... Don't get me wrong, you've provided me hours of smiles with your astute commentary.

Hey thanks chill! And everyone else whom sent invites... peace peace

One fore me!? bzzzrick (attatat) gmail ?

Am I missing something, or didn't Apple have to buy the memory from Samsung prior to putting it in their devices? Why would Samsung care if they then sold them? The devices are built, just not in the US currently.

Avaya (previously Nortel), brocade, 3com, extreme, Hp, alcatel-lucent... I actually work at an all Nortel (avaya) shop, converged VOIP / Data network of 20,000 phones 40,000 devices only 2 Cisco routers (internet gateways) in our whole network.

While it appears to only apply to Comcast, that could be a good start. Now, with those restrictions perhaps their lobbying mechanics will change... as long as what another poster mentioned: that this applies for all inet video (and?) services, not just a select few.

Specially with Comcast as one of the most egregious of players for throttling etc. Now we need a large player to pony up legit torrents for dispersal and prevent any throttling there as well.