I have no idea.

I like how that got modded insightful. Only on Slashdot does one earn praise for arguing Star Wars on a science news post. =)

Maybe if you wrote the image of a btrfs volume to a tape?

And make sure those backups aren't also on a btrfs volume.

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

Therefore, Obi Wan is a Sith.

Yeah, it's fun to tinker with each new Ubuntu release using a live CD or VM, but a pain in the ass to need to upgrade the OS on a production computer every six months. Something inevitably gets altered, broken, removed or replaced. You can never fully get used to everything. Canonical likes to adopt new technologies before they're ready and then drop perfectly functional ones on a whim, and that's fine for people who like to have the latest and (arguably) greatest.

So, I stuck Xubuntu 12.04 on my laptop, got it configured just the way I like it, and will happily not waste time with installation and configuration for another four years.

Hell, it's one quarter of the popular LAMP combo.

I see what you did there.

Back in the pre-YouTube days, Rooster Teeth distributed their videos using Bit Torrent to relieve their own HTTP load. I think they gave BT users the incentive of downloading earlier to encourage its use.

Not by default, though. You have to use a flag.

I don't understand what it means when people say that. It's a website with organized, searchable content that can deliver varying forms of multimedia. What is not "21st century" about it?

The effort put into this transition is probably not as drastic as you make it sound.

Only if it's a fat binary, but thankfully these never needed to catch on with the x86 to x86-64 transition.

* Looks pointedly at Adobe *

Sure as hell wasn't security.