Years ago my previous employer had equipment in two different datacenters in the building. Its more than real estate, or a massive datacenter. Its a very dense internet peering hub with datacenters and office space. I can definitely see this move as strategic, as it puts Google in the "middle" of all the different players.

There are definitely folks out there who can afford to buy a hybrid without concern of gas savings, but most people are going to buy a vehicle that is within their financial means so the upfront cost has to face the reality of cost of ownership. I was one of those people who put enough miles on their car to warrant a hybrid. I did the math and it was cheaper to buy a brand new Prius than continue driving my paid off SUV, due to ongoing maintenance and fuel costs. Several years later, I opted to trade the Prius in for a "clean diesel" that delivers nearly the same MPG but with more comfort and space than the Prius offered. It costs me a bit more overall but due to my changing needs and cramped legroom I think its worth it. Environmentally speaking, I like having a vehicle that pollutes less, but I can't afford not to drive something as fuel efficient which is ultimately why I bought one.

A G5 isn't that old and is still pretty powerful. It still has a lot of life left in it. If you can't figure out what to do with a high end workstation from 1 or 2 processor generations ago then you're best bet is to sell it to somebody who does.

If you're not going to sell it, put a more recent version of Mac OS X Server on it that supports the G5 CPU and put it to use for whatever you need it to do.

I had a Netgear Wireless N router and was unhappy with the speed of the router itself as well as the lower than expected performance in mixed G/N modes. I now have a Dlink DIR-825 "Dual Band" router. It can run multiple wlans on each band so that the traffic doesn't interfere with each other and so that you can support older devices that use WEP (like my Tivo) at the same time you can use WPA2 on Wireless N. Wireless N on 5Ghz band gets nearly full strength signal all the way from my basement up to the 4th floor loft where my mancave is.

The average person probably doesn't know much about one gun from another. I don't fault them for not knowing the make and model. It doesn't look like an assault rifle to me though, it looks more like a high powered long range sniper rifle. Not the sort of thing you bring in to shoot up the office.

I like the comment from the cop though.. be more discreet. Yeah, next time make sure you hide it under your trench coat. :)

That's funny, I don't remember ricin used on 9-11.

If the boxes came from HP, and you know you didnt order them, why not just refuse delivery?

"We received one package, opened it and realized that it was an error since no one in our office had ordered them," she said. "The next day we received another package. At this point we realized that they needed to be turned over to law enforcement."

So you receive something you know you didnt order, and instead of refusing shipment you call the cops? What?

The article also makes it seem like the shipments came from HP, not from somebody who had some sinister intent. It sounds like someone was ordering a bunch of stuff to cover tracks or maybe it was from Ben Bernanke's credit card. LOL

Seems to be an RMS religious rant to me. SAP is a for profit company. They write proprietary software. They have interests to protect. I can fully understand why they don't want the government coming along and forcing their applications to either become open source or allow open source clones of their proprietary application. It is also reasonable that SAP likes Linux, open source development tools, and consortium's that produce open source software that extend and interact with their proprietary software. Presumably this allows them access to additional market share, cheaper development costs, etc. There is no friend or foe. Get over it.

You can make the "cloud" resilient, redundant, and highly available. They obviously did not. If the cloud is extended to two places then you don't need servers (virtual or otherwise) in two places.

1) Don't leave them turned on, especially not in the original system. If the system gets hit by lightning/surge/etc you don't want it to take your backup with it.

2) Rotate your backups. Assuming you have more than one removable media, swap them out in a rotating fashion.. That gives you multiple restore points in case you have one of the backup media volumes go bad.

3) If you use an internal drive dock, get one that encloses the drive so it has basic physical protection from handling. Store them in the plastic (usually antistatic) bag they came in somewhere away from the main system.

4) Instead of using an internal dock with multiple internal drives that all need their own dock sled, consider an external USB/Firewire/eSATA drive instead. You can even get ethernet based drives too, so they can be used on your home network. You can buy an external drive enclosure for pretty cheap and use the same internal drives saving a bit of money, making it about the same cost as using an internal drive docking solution with the bonus that you can then access your backup from ANY system, not just the one that has the dock.

If the Downward Spiral is too objectionable for the iPhone App Store, how come they still have no problem selling the Downward Spiral on the iTunes Music Store, so you can listen to said album on your iPhone? That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Apple makes some great products but every once and a while they make some ass backwards decision that just can't be described.

Eh, people already get to watch those shows for free... Advertisers foot the bill when its on broadcast TV. Why should web viewing be any different? For now I'll just stick to Tivo and watch what I want when I want, assuming I get whatever channel it gets broadcast on. No worrying about all the crap that you have to go through to watch on Hulu or when ABC decides I should watch the show.

Yet another moron in business that thinks their shit doesn't stink and people have no idea that there is a real difference between a Mac and a PC. Sure a lot of components are the same now, since they are both on Intel but I have and will continue to happily pay more for a system that I don't have to worry about getting whatever the latest virus is, doesn't routinely crash, is well designed, well integrated computer. It does what I want it to do and more! And truth be told, you can NOT find a comparable PC for $500 less. It might be cheaper, but its not significantly cheaper when comparing apples to... well.. Apples.