You're right. Changed this.

How would you recommend we get this off the ground? I feel like the list has to have at least 20-ish sites, or people will just go "this is a joke."

I'm trying to think of a better way to promote the Enanium backgrounds plugin. Basically you drop in a .jpg file and a 16x16 .png icon and Enanium (the new shiny default theme I designed at some point along the 1.1.x beta series) does all the dirty work of applying it as a background for your site. That's the most common form of customization I've seen people using.

Offtopic: The other reason I stayed anonymous because I haven't been "dandaman32" in about 3 years. It's one of those juvenile nicknames you can never seem to get rid of. That, and this account's got karma on /. and I can thus get my daily news fix without staring at flash ads.

I was betting on my ability to remember to hit "post anonymously" every time I commented on this thread.
Note to self: in the future, hit "log out." x_x

Shit. My sense of vocabulary is fail. Must be this ice cream. I meant "effervescing."

>_<

A project can be as "open source" as it wants, but that doesn't mean it has to take patches, adhere strictly to disclosure policies, or release early/release often.

I'm skeptical, because the same goes for this project of "open sourcing" our "operating system." I don't see how it helps much if we can't contribute our changes back to upstream. Neither do those who submit changes often have any guarantee whatsoever of receiving recognition and getting commit access.

CowboyNeal's head stores all my po-- erm, term papers.

All three major OSes, Windows, Mac and Linux, support R/W access to NTFS. With FAT32 you're limited to 4GB file sizes and you get NO journaling - which means you actually have a greater chance of data loss when you lose power. RAID won't help you there.

Think about your needs for a bit. Do you want to be able to access your terabyte plus of data from other computers or other OSes? Depending on your needs you might also be able to just use a setup like that of my place: networked Linux based storage over a Gigabit LAN. It won't work if you're grinding away 4 VMs at a time on VMware or editing video, but it's fine for storing downloads and music. Going with a Linux based storage server means you can also access the drive over whatever protocol you want, Samba/NFS for local traffic and even SFTP or HTTP for accessing it away from home. You also get a lot of flexibility with your RAID options. Try picking up a third drive (the same size) or even two more and putting them all in a RAID 5 configuration.

Whether you use local or network-attached storage, go for software RAID. It takes almost no CPU time on modern computers and you can move the array to a different computer. That's an invaluable disaster recovery path to have. And use NTFS, for previously stated reasons.

I'm using ext4 on an encrypted partition on my tiny X41 tablet. The hard disk is 5400RPM IIRC, so when Ubuntu decides to run fsck due to a scheduled run or an unclean shutdown after a certain bug manifests itself, I don't have to sit there for 10 minutes or more waiting for fsck to run. That for me and many other casual users is probably the biggest advantage of ext4.

Does a laptop count as production? In the eyes of an everyday user, yes. My laptop is very much "production" IMHO, and I trust ext4 enough to not magically make all my school assignments disappear.

Digressing a bit, I haven't seen any of the data loss either, though I use GNOME and not KDE. I do think that if an application relies on specific undocumented behavior, that the application should change, not the filesystem driver. It's acceptable that the kernel developers are doing their best to get temporary workarounds into place, but the permanent solution is to fix the applications so they don't depend on undocumented behavior.