It's been a while since I've been here, this used to be my home. I've since moved on, but things like this always bring you back home.

Goodby RobLimo, you made the world better and we're all worse off for your passing.

If you care about data integrity then you're not running on MyISAM tables. There's a pretty long list of reasons not to use MyISAM tables, and frankly they're an outmoded relic except for a few edge cases. It's a bit of a straw man argument, and if you're going there then I get to point out that it wasn't until version 7.3 that you could alter the damn table in PG. Seven point three. That's like saying "Horray, we can do updates now. You don't have to delete and then insert your rows manually."

7.3 was half a decade ago.

Now, it's still kinda laughable that it took that long but it's really no longer a valid or fair argument. The fact that MyISAM is shit isn't a fair argument either. As an aside, MySQL has had blackhole since 2005 and it loses your data in a very predictable way. As insane as it sounds, it has its uses all the same as /dev/null.

So go to Percona then. They're more conservative and safety oriented anyway.

And by MariaDB you mean that thing that's is a front-end for Percona XtraDB.

You've obviously never used Informix.

I have the first gen XT and I can say is that these things are everything they're cracked up to be. If you're not buying an SSD then you should be getting one of these. Generally if you strip away the SSD portion you're still left with one of the best mechanical drives on the market, but the SSD portion really and truly does make a solid and positive difference in everyday computing life.

Actually a group went around testing honey from local retailers and found that 100% or nearly 100% of all honey purchased at places like CVS, Wal-Mart and a few grocers were at minimum ultrafiltered. Normally they filter out chunks of flowers and bee parts, but leave the pollen in. The ultrafiltered stuff is filtered to the point where the pollen is also extracted which is a costly and completely unnecessary step that just happens to mask the honey's origin. You can tell where honey came from based upon what the pollen is.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/

Meanwhile the old classic MacOS systems would stop the world whenever you held the mouse down. Have a BBS running in the background? Watch the modem literally stop blinking just because you're holding down the mouse button.

Some games let you mash the both at the same time to do a rage reset.

Says you. Adobe Lightroom is easily worth every penny.

How could you forget the Pioneer LaserActive? That bitch was rackable. How about the 3DO??? Huh? Ppfft... and you call yourself a gamer.

Or to put it another way, name a PC manufacturer who uses OCZ drives. Go ahead and try. Yep, didn't think so. Above and beyond performance, reliability is the primary concern for a drive, and OCZs aren't there. Samsungs and Toshibas are.

I don't quite trust ext4 for writes.

app: Hey, can you write this data out to
ext4: DONE!
app: Uhh, that wasn't long enough to actually write the data.
ext4: Sure it was, I'm super faGRRRRRRRRRRRRRst at writing too.
app: wait, did you just cache that write and report it written but then not actually write it to disk until 30 seconds later?
ext4: Yeah, what about it?

That being said, ext3 and mount it with the noatime flag. If you're on a web server you don't want to be hammering it with writes to update the last access time. That's just silly.

I fail to see the difference in real terms between a desktop PC and a laptop with a keyboard and mouse hanging off of it. Likewise you can hook up a mouse, keyboard and external monitor to Android. You can also buy an Android tablet for a quantity of dollars down in the double digits. The high end classes of computing will always get eaten from below as the low end matures. The higher end stuff will always remain as a niche product, but for the masses it is always a race to the bottom.

Portability is a plus, but the main factor is cost.

This is a metrics problem. Management typically has to perform versus metrics and if the metrics are shit, the product will be shit as well. "cut IT costs" is a terrible metric by itself given that IT is pervasive to the functionality of a modern corporation.