Good point. Can I say simply that I believe that once something is over, it should stay that way?

I say this as someone that runs ZFS on his backup/file server; if you do have to restore or resilver it can take a long while! A single slow drive in a vdev will limit the entire pool's IO (the extent of which is entirely dependent on topology, but the weakest link always crushes you in ZFS). After a handful of TB of data, even with a pool of mirrored vdevs and a flash cache device, the resilver for a single drive can take a day unless you've got some serious spindle count at high RPMs. Even SAS drives don't provide that many IOPS.

Agreed. I'd like to see the look on their face when they realize they have enough power for racks of servers but not nearly enough cooling. We've actually got a staging area at work where all of the power comes into the building, but it's only got enough cooling for a couple of racks (and not dense racks, at that) full time and then a couple of racks meant for short tests. Running everything full for any lengthy amount of time probably wouldn't fly even in the Minnesota winter with the receiving garage door open. To be fair, the room wasn't created for racks of full time servers on purpose.

I *loved* Bloom County and read it from when I first discovered it in 1982 while I was in university. It was funny, relevant and smart.

It continued to be right up until Mr. Breathed ended the strip. But it ended, I've (and I think most people have) moved on and, now that it's 25 years later, Mr. Breathed should be looking at new avenues for his considerable talents.

Now, having said that, the example panel is pretty vintage but I still think it's time for Mr. Breathed (and us) to move on.

My family is Swedish on my father's side (I'm American, about three generations removed). As I think about it, I'm not even sure what exactly Sweden exports. If I remember correctly your military even imports most of their equipment.

Anyways, you guys have a pretty direct democracy, couldn't you vote this down? Or is this a consequence of "too much democracy" and this is what the Swedes, as a whole, want?

I disagree with half the stuff you say, but I value your comments and still find great bits of insight in a lot of them. For instance, whenever you rant on Linux I usually read the entire post. Usually I agree with about a quarter of it, disagree with the rest and find things to think about on both accounts. I believe that you have a reasonable take even on things you don't necessarily like and usually avoid descending into 'troll' territory even when arguing. That's the kind of stuff I've only been able to find on Slashdot and why I keep coming back.

BTW, have you run your yearly "try Linux again" experiment recently? If not, don't bother with Fedora 22 - as a developer and avid Linux user/committer I can tell you it's pure crap driven by UX dorks. Very nearly completely unusable. Try a SUSE Linux build next time around. They haven't completely jumped the shark yet and still provide a reasonable, user friendly, stable build.

For those of us who have no idea what you're talking about but are curious, can you expand upon this?

I use a laptop a lot for going out to customers and giving demonstrations and the ideal (for me) would be about 6 hours of so of battery life but I think I would be at the high end of the power curve (requiring active WiFi and Bluetooth as well as the processor/display fully up). For the average laptop, the life I get seems to be around 3.5hours. But, I can't see a larger/heavier laptop with more life would be an big advantage for me.

What would be an advantage to me would be reasonable life (and 3.5hours seems to fit that need for a single meeting/session) with the ability to plug into an outlet (there's always an outlet around where I am) and car would be of more use to me than a big honking battery that takes a long time to fully charge. This would make travel simpler (don't have to bring along the brick) as well as search into the depth of the bags in a meeting when the seven minute warning comes up on Windows.

It might be SuperFetch trying to precache a bunch of things (or the defrag service or the indexing service): http://superuser.com/questions...

You drive a hard bargain. I'll send you a six pack of beer we don't drink and beer we flog to foreigners. One six pack of Foster's and one six pack of Bud Light.

Drink the Bud first and then use the Foster's simultaneously wash away the taste of the Bud, drink something that resembles a beer, and be both humbled and amazed by the fact we can make a beer so crappy it makes you enjoy the crappy beer you guys produce. Then be thankful that I didn't send over Bud Light Lime. Yes, that's a thing and it probably tastes as bad as it sounds.

I'm American and I could probably get about 15 million lira together if you give me a few days and will take a check.

On second thought, I'm not very well traveled so I'd appreciate it if someone could help me with the monetary conversion. Australians accept lira, or do I have to convert to Foster's beer for payment? If so, I'll let them keep the change and just give them the entire six pack.

That's the kind of rich I am, ladies, and there's more where that came from.