The scary thing is it's modded +5 interesting. Seriously, Slashdot?

Uh it's pretty simple. Take 50 relatively idle servers. Combine them onto two physical servers as VMs. Spend 1/25th the money on servers and have complete hardware redundancy for every host which is now a vm. What is there not to get?

So make the reserve slightly higher than the Buy It Now?

So what other online market do we have for big, commercial IT gear? We buy a lot of stuff from NHR but it's nearly impossible to see what our existing gear is actually worth. Typically it's lots of googling, checking ebay, getting quotes for our existing gear from vendors like NHR and others.

So if he's just another "johnny-come-lately" then who is already doing what they're doing? Because I'd love to be able to go to one place and check prices of our old gear.

Depends on the cost of the loans compared to what you could do with the cash. Worst case scenario the whole thing collapses and you fold up shop and go home. I'm sure it's incorporated, he won't be personally liable for the debt. Just pay yourself a nice salary while you're at it in case everything goes tits up.

I'm going to watch whatever movie I want at home. When they movie studios get their shit together and give me a way to pay them to do the same thing, I will. I really don't give a shit either way.

This article is a really takes a really roundabout way to tell you computers are getting faster...

Your comment was more interesting than the article, can you just write posts instead of timothy posting things?

That's so you'll look it up and then be "in the know" by having "discovered it yourself". It's just a thinly veiled spam story.

Ever since the tethering settlement the open access rules require Verizon to allow any device on their network (the 700Mhz LTE block that is).

Just need to build a good interface. I'd like to see a "clutch" - a button I hold down to read and let go to stop. Then easy rewind/forward. Maybe a button that moves back to the last punctuation mark? I think SOME of the problems we could solve with good UI design.

You'd need 25 tapes (800GB) and a full backup or restore would take 3.8 days (peak theoretical 60MB/s). Depending on the rate of change this may not be viable.

More like 5 of them.

It's just a bargaining position. Samsung will counter with something lower and they'll meet somewhere in the middle.

Ok, I'll tell them: Sorry we're too cheap to foot the bill and this is an obvious puff piece by a PR company to convince us all we need to spend millions (billions over time) to outfit every commercial plane with this device.