Pah. You're all traffic n00bs. Come to South Africa and experience our taxis (for those attending the soccer world cup next year, good luck to ya).

Our taxis not only crash with you in it, they drive over you, shoot at you, shoot at each other, ignore road laws at every turn, indicate after turning - if at all, pack 60 salty-water-sacks per taxi designed for ~12, are ignored by law enforcement or bribe 'em, stage mass action fucking up everyone's schedule, belong to violent gang-like groups who regularly take each other out, kill bus drivers for stealing their business, etc...

There, fixed that for you.

Slony is also incredibly complicated. That complication presents a real problem for busy administrators when Slony fails (which it does, often).

Hopefully the Pg devs will also use a straightforward (and reliable) replication model.

In the meantime, we use SkyTools - simple to get going, it fails less often, and when it does, it's a snap to get going again.

The device will also sport a new "chiclet" keyboard design...

Hopefully this is not the same chiclet keyboards you get on cheap-shit calculators.

Contrary to popular belief, a decent (scissor-tech) keyboard is fucking vital.

Sounds like you've been watching too much Barney.

Well, fuckit, there's your problem.

How about fixing the bugs before adding features?

I had to do this once to reset a flash-screwed BIOS... scary as hell prying out a good chip on a running machine, then carefully inserting a buggered one back in, reflashing, etc.

Desperate measures, etc. Scary as hell, but it can be done. I didn't believe it could be done until I tried it.

Believe it or not, some people actually adopt them early because they need the space for non-pr0n (especially in RAID5 setups).

Hm, your setup sounds similar to ours (we have 6x 1TB drives). I've had 1 drive fail over the past 6 months or so. Would you mind posting about your experience and details from Seagate on your blog (http://cupcakecarnival.net/) when you get them?

Noise level: on par with my HP notebook. Nice 'n quiet.
The aluminium frame _can_ be a bit chilly in winter, but that's only for the first 10-15m, then it's OK. In fact, besides the large size (ie, normal KB size), that's also my only semi-complaint. However, the joy of typing on this thing outweighs the winter-cold-startup :)

Oh yes, nice 'n snappy, lovely tactile feedback - I don't even have to look at the keys. You just *know* what key you've hit. Make a mistake, your pinky hits the proper sized backspace, and there's no doubt that your keystroke was positive - you can FEEL it.

Cool, I'll check it out, thanks (I've tried so many kbs over the years - my wife just rolls her eyes). I've been eyeing the Enermax Micro, but it has that horrible L-shaped Enter key, with the '|' pipe sign moved down next to Shift - urgh. I use | a lot. Still, might be an option

I'm using an Enermax now - bought an extra one which I keep in storage, just in case. It has the most similar tactile feedback and minimal key travel when compared to a decent notebook keyboard.

Nice and heavy too (solid aluminium), so it doesn't float around like these cheap plastic pieces of shit people call keyboards.

My only complaint is that it's too big - I don't (and never have) need the stupid numeric keypad taking up valuable desk space.

I've often though about buying a notebook keyboard, figuring out the ciruitry and building a case for it to get the best of both worlds - decent tactile feedback and super-compact.

Apologies for my previous knee-jerk response - it's just that your comment touched a nerve, being a parent who experienced the gut-wrenching anguish of seeing a child in an incubator.

Perhaps your comment wasn't meant to be flippant WRT life-saving (possible) innovations.

Honestly, i dont really give a damn about the incubators...

Nice one. You're obviously not a parent...