My car uses between 4 and 10 L/100km depending on how I am driving.

Is a fucking oxymoron. Every piece of hardware they have ever produced has been complete shit, worse even than their OS.

I managed to find some files from 1991 on one of my old file servers. No doubt if I also searched archives (tarballs, zip files, etc) I would find something older,

fdir="/backup"
find $fdir -type f -printf "%T@ %Tc %p\n" | sort -n --reverse | tail

676094400 Wed 05 Jun 1991 12:00:00 AM EDT /home/obfuscated/valium/tmp/dosutils/copying

this also happens to be a version of the GPL from June 1991. Kinda cool that.

I kind of prefer Ambrose Bierce's take on patriotism,

In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort
of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer,
I beg to submit that it is the first -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Is this supposed to be a good thing? Sounds like someone's password encryption algorithm needs some upgrading to me.

It would definitely have been much better on the geek factor to give the results in log scale.

I would have been at 5.53 fwiw (600km / 5'9" ... not sure what my height is in metric off the top of my head :)

I have a text file that I edit with vim that automagically decrypts the file when I view/edit it and re-encrypts it when done. Very secure, don't have to worry about a single use application going the way of the dodo.

I threw this piece of crap out my front door (literally). This was the final nail in the coffin for Micro$oft for me, the reason I switched to linux on the desktop, in 1999.

Is the sixth option wrong? Shouldn't it be 201-300?

Great personal or small business laser. Network, fast, has postscript so it works with pretty well every OS that one could imagine.

I refuse to buy any more HP products after the fiasco that was a multi-function deskjet. Bugged me once every couple of months to install yet another !@#$! colour cartridge, even if I only wanted to print black and white. HP used to be a respectable company, ever since Carly Fiori, it has been in a tailspin.

Brother is the way to go, brother (or sister, as the case may be).

I am submitting a patent to cover every xml data schema other than those patents already held by Microsoft.

Insane.

Open Printing is your friend,

http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Dymo

True, but in the context of the article it would be more something like,

RAID_CONTROLLER -> SATA -> SSD -> RAM

I suspect that the hardware raid controller can easily be replaced by the network,

[Network/GIGE/10GE/etc] -> SATA -> [SSD -> RAM]

The way things stand right now there's no real benefit that I can see from sharing
SSD across the network, even though the network is certainly fast enough to compete
with latencies on the SSD.

Network shared block devices or more probably "object stores" are an interesting
option, especially for read only or read mostly applications like web provision.