..used a password that was just three characters long.

Amazing, "1 - 2 - 3? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"

The $1000/socket/year is straight off of Oracle's website. As a small shop, Oracle hasn't been willing to cut us a deal or negotiate, and only offers us what's on their website. Too bad, I used to use and really like OpenSolaris.

Since the acquisition I had somewhat lost hope in Solaris with Oracle as the overlord, however, I've recently found OpenIndiana. It looks very promising!

Go read that "new" Oracle license and you'll realize Solaris isn't nearly as free as it once was.

Too bad, Solaris was gaining more momentum while it was available for free for any purpose, not just "...only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your applications, and not for any other purpose."

Great idea. Let's just mount horns on the animal rights activists and send them towards the enemy!

Once the enemy deals with them, we can use the horses.

Check out the competitors quiet quadruped carrier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFPYPJ_6OH0

Hopefully this will be better then the fast shut down mode (a.k.a. "blue screen of death") that Microsoft has developed and deployed already.

By the way, did they ever get a patent on the blue screen of death? If not, I'm sure there's a market in there somewhere!

Taking wagers on how long until Oracle extinguishes this new Sun power and makes it irrelevant?

You obviously don't work for my company.

Just turn in your geek card.

Please show us how you get any triangle with either more or less than 180 degrees as the sum of all internal angles.

That's bogus advice. ZFS supports hot-swap and you can replace drives as they fail, if you like, but one of the biggest benefits to ZFS is that ZFS corrects corruption other filesystems can't detect.

Ditto the ZFS suggestion; consider Solaris and commercial support from Oracle if this data is valuable. Due to the importance of the data and support options, I'd not suggest OpenSolaris or FreeBSD unless you consider yourself very competent with either. One day that support option just might pay for itself.

Scientific Linux is totally awesome, but a project of this size, especially with the IT knowledge on hand, needs the support and first-rate product which RedHat provides.

Windows Defender is add-on software because the OS itself doesn't provide enough defense.

"OSX - Because it was easier to make UNIX user-friendly than to fix Windows. "

Linux is not a distribution, it's only a kernel.

In other news, Corning has just produced the world's thickest glass. This new glass, dubbed "Sub-Surface", is claimed to be as thick as a Microsoft tablet. Details at 11.