Damn it, you beat me to it!!! :(

I do not live in Croydon. Therefore I cannot vote for a G4C candidate.

Damn you! When I typed that I was tossing up which word to pluralise. I originally typed it Attorneys General and changed it just before hitting Submit. I consider myself quite the English language Nazi, so I'm rather disappointed with myself now. :(

This has nothing to do with the government's opinion as a whole.

Any changes to the film and literature classification system must be approved unanimously by the Attorney-Generals. Michael Atkinson (AG of South Australia) is the only one against the introduction of an R18+ rating. His arguments are essentially "think of the children"-based. He fully understands the "games are not just for kids anymore" argument but is on a personal crusade to protect the country from anything he sees as bad for children. He will never change his opinion because it would make him look weak. Nothing will happen unless his ability to veto the decision is revoked.

It almost makes me ashamed to live in the same state as him.

This is why I pronounce it Sequel. I may be late 20s but I know at least SOME computer history. :)
Also ESS KYUU ELL has more syllables, is awkward to say, and just sounds silly. ;)

The new Panic Button will be the equivalent of:
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

Obligatory Red Dwarf:

CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
LISTER: So, that thing's spewing time back into the universe? (He dons his fur-lined hat.)
KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time phenomena on board.
CAT: So, what is it?
KRYTEN: I've never seen one before -- no one has -- but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
RIMMER: A _white_ hole?
KRYTEN: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe: a white hole returns it.
LISTER: (Minus the hat.) So, that thing's spewing time back into the universe? (He dons his fur-lined hat, again.)
KRYTEN: Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time phenomena on board.
LISTER: What time phenomena?
KRYTEN: Like just then, when time repeated itself.
CAT: So, what is it?

Most high level languages require some kind of runtime library. .NET needs its framework, Java needs the JRE, VC++ needs the VC++ runtime, VB6 needs the VB6 runtime. The difference is that recent versions of Windows come with the .NET and VC++ runtimes by default, so you never really think about it. Microsoft can't ship Java (nor most non-MS runtimes) with Windows, so you have to download them.

At least .NET makes .exe files though.
".jar"...*shudder*

Excuse me? I fail to see the logic in that statement.

Nope, but we do get an attack of opportunity.

Obligatory xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/435/

I can't boot both OpenSolaris and Ubuntu at the same time since it's the same hardware, but do you think it would possible to mount and boot my Ubuntu drive under VirtualBox? I've not used VirtualBox for anything other than booting from a disk image. If so, would it be easy to mount the other physical disks within the VM, then share them to the host OS? I'm thinking that would be the best solution, but I'll give the FUSE driver a try first.

On a semi-related note, I was looking for a better solution to my old setup (7 drives with thousands of symlinks) and I stumbled upon zfs-fuse. Thus began my love for ZFS. ;)

Yeah unfortunately I'm using the same hardware but with a different boot drive, so I can't really run them both at the same time. :)

I read up on raid-z a bit more, but I think I'd prefer to have a filesystem I can grow at any time (easily). Hard drives are pretty inexpensive at the moment, so I don't really mind having to buy twice the drives for the space I want. It really bugs me that ZFS still doesn't support removal of vdevs and/or pool-shrinking (that reminds me of a Seinfeld episode actually...)

Btrfs looks interesting, but I have this feeling that once I get OpenSolaris set up (and I actually learn how to use the bloody thing), I won't want to move back to Linux. :)

I've been a ZFS fanboy for quite a while now, and last weekend I finally made the shift from Ubuntu to OpenSolaris on my server. At the moment I'm just using a basic mirrored pool and no raid-z (it scares me).

The only thing that really bugs me at the moment is its poor support for ext2/3. I was getting ridiculously slow transfer speeds from my old drives (sub 100k/s) and/or hard locks where I've had to kill off the copy process and hope that I can unmount it.

I've been booting into Ubuntu, copying files over the network to my desktop PC, booting OpenSolaris, and copying back. I'm sure there's an easier way to copy 4TB, but I'm not in a hurry.

What have been your experiences in migration from Linux to OpenSolaris?

*Disclaimer: I use Solaris 10 at work.

I hate you. I now have that stuck in my head... ARGH!