Mod parent up, Hot Fudge Sundae (that falls on a Tuesdae).

"...but when you rub it, it becomes a suitcase."

If you're nostalgic, check out http://www.archonclassic.com/.

I think they did a pretty good job, but my reflexes aren't what they used to be...

The calculations at http://www.ez2c.de/ml/solar_land_area/ with optimal array placement came up with slightly different numbers, fwiw.

Though granted, the overnight storage would definitely be a challenge if solar scaled that high, and a lot more long-distance transmission lines would be needed.

There are a few dozen pages of case studies on it in this book.

Running a site like this is often a thankless job. Thanks for sticking in there so long, and for setting up and maintaining what has become one of the most well-known sites on the internet.

You don't have time to dig around and find the root cause. You need it to work. Now.

On reflection, this is a good analogy for modern society in general.

Ah, there's your problem. You needed one of these Killer NICs http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-xeno-pro/ to offset the lag of the rootkit.

Heeeeeeey Aqualung....

It's the fact that they use SQLite to store so much data. Putting the firefox profile on anything but a local hard drive causes it to become completely unresponsive on a regular basis. I haven't seen any plans by Mozilla to fix this yet, but this completely kills Firefox in any work environment with roaming profiles.

As a professor I had once said, "depression existed before 1950 - they called it alcoholism."

So given the disruptive effect on the cell data network this would have, would it be more apt to call it a Grendel cluster?