That brings back good memories of college.

And that isn't even counting Cuba's superior healthcare and education.

Albacore in Portsmouth NH is unique and interesting.

"When I was a boy, blowing up the moon was just a beautiful dream."

Ah, so there is no federal Highway Trust Fund or gasoline tax? Tolls magically fund the construction of highways before they exist and that there is no such thing as a freeway? Good to know.

Then in the 1930 and 40s they abandoned them. Why?

Ooh, ooh! I know this one! Because the government subsidized the automotive infrastructure!

Publicly traded corporations. I work at a 10,000 employee company not covered under SarbOx.

No, OS X has always done that. Except they call it prebinding.

Huh... when did that happen? I've never had it work. I just checked in Snowy and it still doesn't work there. Which is sad since they use samba for the server. You'd think they'd at least match its client capabilities.

Of course, all CIFS is proprietary. The Samba team just does an awesome job reverse engineering it. The Open Group SMB standard is now basically a fork thanks to MS's policy.

OK, looks like Samba added DFS about two years ago.

All I can think of is lack of DFS support. But I think DFS is proprietary.

The first thing my CIO said (10,000 employee company) was, "great, now I can wipe the last Microsoft products off my hard drive."

You'd have to write your own software for the thing. They don't even allow ATA over Ethernet. It isn't just IP only, it is HTTPS only. If you want block level access, they don't want you.

Not only that, they seem to think there is no difference between block and file storage. This is an HTTP only NAS system backed by JFS. That would not be my first choice for many applications. I couldn't use this for most of my data center even if it did have a support infrastructure.

One of the most important concepts here is that to store or retrieve data with a Backblaze Storage Pod, it is always through HTTPS. There is no iSCSI, no NFS, no SQL, no Fibre Channel. None of those technologies scales as cheaply, reliably, goes as big, nor can be managed as easily as stand-alone pods with their own IP address waiting for requests on HTTPS.

That's why I drive a personal SU-37.

Recordinghero would work too.