My main concern with BTRFS is Synology's all-in reliance on it, with it being the default filesystem. Notably they do not rely on the more squirrelly volume management parts of it, and just use it on top of bog-standard RAID, but still... If it dies on the vine or stagnates, there are a lot of volumes out there that will need to be rebuilt / migrated.

John Dwyer of The Oh Sees uses an Organelle on stage, and you'll hear it on several of their trippiest studio songs from the past couple years. It's pretty versatile. A friend and I ported his professional filters and synths over to it as a prototype testbed last year.

You can even plug in a keyboard / mouse / monitor and use it as a computer if you choose.

Sure, encode the "new" net neutrality as a law drafted by AT&T lobbyists. Set things in stone and neuter any future liberal FCCs.

We have a pitch of 8 and a pretty large multilevel roof, this calculator tells me that a 50% coverage Tesla roof + battery will cost me $54K with the tax break, down to costing $20K after 30 years. That's still more than a shingled roof would cost today, and to be comparable to a fancy tiled roof I guess I'd have to wait until I'm very, very old.

I recall having a soaring conversation with a tech friend in a Seattle back-yard party about this rumored "new thing" that was going to revolutionize the world. It was like Gopher, but had the ability to transparently serve all types of media and links were network-agnostic.

Frankly it blew my mind, and I had some difficulty wrapping my head around the concept, but most interestingly, we both found Gopher as the common-ground existing paradigm to compare against the nascent Web.

Then I threw up in a bush, but I think that was the Jim Beam.

I was at one of the early Office launches, 1997 or so (not for fun, I was an MS conference tech). One of the things that lodged in my head was the presentation from the Excel project lead and the implied competition between the Office apps. He said he had heard about all the great advances Word had made for text formatting and presentation for this release, and he exclaimed that "we have Word's functionality inside each and every cell!"

So no, even from the earliest, and as far as MS was concerned, spreadsheets were not primarily calculators but a way to present tabulated data.

I mean seriously Slashdot, if you're going to go full mediocre then go full mediocre.

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) also extensively used the Amiga for data visualization (Hippograph), capture, and documention (TeX) in the late 80s and just into the early 90s. A few great (mythical?) Amiga applications are hosted there, still:

https://www.slac.stanford.edu/...

http://science.slashdot.org/co...

In the late nineties and into the last decade Microsoft just dumped too much time and money on their vision of a hyper-connected home. They dumped so much research money into building out test spaces and building out test devices, they failed to realize that people don't want an intelligent dryer and an intelligent toaster and an intelligent melon baller. The reality is whatever fancy device you own that has any kind of transistor in it, much less a CPU-- a phone, a tablet, a TV-- you're having to fuss with it. Constantly. And the same is/was always true for their "Microsoft At Home" vision. And yes, these things were connected-- but only to each other.

That, and the fact that Microsoft has always misread the Internet, from coming to TCP/IP late, to ignoring the vital interoperability that cloud services demand. It's always been about the toys with them. Toys that run Windows. Ugh.

Gratefully, only a few of these monstrous things ever saw the light of day beyond the lab.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/08/07/02/1317200/dungeons-and-desktops

Take the two of them together for an unbroken history of RPGs up to about a few years ago. I'm nearly finished with Dungeons and Desktops, and despite a slight bias against Amigas (or ports in general) and an unfamiliarity with certain D&D rules, it's a great tour of CRPGs from the past. Use the author's Gamasutra articles for the full-color screenshots, though.

Google+ is "primarily an identity service."
--Eric Schmidt

I have no need for an identity service in my life. That's why I left.

I'm hoping it's got a bog-standard PCI interface specification, so that the old PWS console firmware works with it. The PWS 600au works great with an ATI Radeon 9000, NetBSD + X11. Not so sure about the xorg support for the GT520 though. We'll see.

I very strongly disagree; I went from a Caviar Black to a Momentus XT (same size) in my Macbook Pro, and I see improvements everywhere. I dual-boot this with Windows 7, so I don't see the full improvement that I would if it were a single-OS-system, but even after I run an extended Windows session, restarting into OS X largely comes off the SSD. My "bouncemarks" (dock bounces are often used as a bench) are very low or nonexistent for frequently-used apps (like Mail, or Outlook), where before with the Caviar they could take a dozen seconds or more to start up.

There are likely differences for each system as to how effective it is (and possible ROM version differences, this one is SD26), but I see real improvements with the Seagate hybrid drive.

Don't believe the FUD in these party-line comments. I run a NetBSD Dom0 with now 7 Red Hat DomU's in an LDAP/messaging cluster on a single server, scoped to 10 concurrent VMs hitting iSCSI cluster targets.

It's not a desktop product. It's designed for high-availability and dense clustering, has a mature codebase and tools, and it works well. And yes, Red Hat 6 runs just fine as a DomU out of the box, and can be a Dom0 as well, if you like (although not "supported" by Red Hat, still quite functional).

There are examples on YouTube. This one is cool, check out 3:41 when he's manipulating words on the screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8-jGDyhdU8