May be that they still use discrete FETs, it's just control circuitry is on die now. (I'm speculating)

It amuses me that in this day and age there are people who don't understand the value of information.

Look, data does not exist in it's own universe. There are practically always ways to crosscheck, merge with data from other sources, do all kinds of clever shit.

For this case, from the top of my head: check peoples movements, check for activity correlation between different companies (indication of an upcoming big deal), assess company's health, etc, etc.

I did try deadline. Subjectively it was worse. But there are too many things conflated - number (and kind) of disk operations depends on the filesystem and its parameters, flash drives are often (more as a rule) funky, usage profiles are different and god knows what else...

System would start to stutter when a lot of I/O is happening. Larger "transaction sizes" are needed to mitigate that. Usually an indication of a high latency environment.

But I think in my case that's mostly due to USB and not btrfs.

Installed Xubuntu 12.10 last October(ish) on USB2 stick (jetflash 32G) with Btrfs (only /boot had EXT2 partition, no swap)

Reason: 24/7 machine. It's a notebook - always spinning harddrive is a drag: spins up cooling fun; so I went solid state for primary OS drive.Needed filesystem that spreads wear and does checksums - hence Btrfs.

Usage - downloading stuff (to the stick itself, not the harddrive) plus some NASing. Data volume: wrapped around those 32gigs few times already.

Observations so far: no problems at all.

Other details: Had to play with I/O scheduler (I think settled on CFQ. Interestingly, NOOP sucked). Had to install hdidle (I think) otherwise couldn't force sda to go to sleep (bug (?)).

Good reason to skip this (13.04) version: It forces your hand on 13.10.
I.e. you'll have to upgrade to 13.10 after that no matter what. And if, god forbid, you'll have a hardware compatibility problem in 13.10 - you'll be screwed.

On another hand, if you're on on 12.10 now - you have the option to what till 14.04

Concern is not that he was let go. Consern is that for whatever reason he was not in a database afterwards. Apparently FBI not sure how that happened.

That wasn't chaff. That was FSB (or whatever) warning them. Those are very serious people. But I agree - interview is neither here no there: at that time he didn't do anything illegal. FBI had no reasons to detain him.

My consern is that his name was not fed into a database. What should have happened is that about 30 minutes after explosions, cops should have been at his door step with a search warrant. That probably would have saved that MIT cop's life...

CBS reported that few years back Russians warned FBI about older brother being radicalized. So FBI asked him, he said "nope", they said "ok" and let him go. And they totally forgot about it - he wasn't on the list of suspects...

That's "cooperation" alright...

And that's the thing - time is running out: Dell already started shipping WiGig docking...

Is it me, or it looks like FireWire scenario playing out all over again? Only this time it's not only USB, but also upcoming WiGig to jointly lock it into a small niche...

With internet connection it is much more handy to short Boeing stock on the first whiff of smoke.

2 hours?! For us, east coasters, 2 hours don't make any difference... for others will be too... soon enough...

And you can't use it in an off-grid solar setup - there aren't many charge/discharge cycles left...

Ubuntu based XCFE distros are screwed anyway. They by design were made for low spec hardware but guess what? 12.10 based anything does not work on non-PAE CPUs... Like, for example, those great pentium M based T41 thinkpads.