This happened in 2010.
Those were old computers.
They already had the money to buy replacements budgeted in their 2010/2011 budget.

So they had to decide to pull the effort the reimage everything for a couple of months, or just buy the new ones early. Buying the new ones early did cost a bit more (30k for all of them), but less then a cleaning would have cost.

The servers, who where not sheduled for replacement, were reimaged just fine.

Well, that fine.

But I name that planet Bob. And seeing that have just as much authority to name extraterestial bodies as this company that isn't even important enough to have a wikipedia article.

Yes, the German one looks a lot more impressive, with a real person in it (piloting using the remote control) rather than a mannequin.

I had a customer who thought I was crazy for suggesting that all they really needed was chroot for their particular task. In the face of VMs people don't realize that simplicity often works better.

Xen's biggest obstacle right now is KVM. I am no VM expert, but I've been impressed with how well KVM runs, supporting non-VM-aware versions of Microsoft Windows among other things. It's really fun to put that Windows screen on the face of someone's iPad and watch them freak out when they see it's not a screenshot, somehow their iPad got Windows 7 installed on it!

Then don't run your IMAP client on a potato, and sort after date.

Seriously, want to use advice how to wipe your butt after shitting, too?

Thats what Nasa World Wind is.

Was available before Google bought Keyhole and renamed it to google earth.

You can still download the laterst version.

I would phrase this different.

There IS recording equipment that CAN get the full majestity of a huge organ in a church or cathedral.... its the PLAYBACK equipment and venure that will never be able replicate the sound.

> I cringe at the mere thought of encrypting my whole main drive, OS and all. Bleaaggghhh! But if you don't, you have to clear your logs once in a while.

Why exactly?

With Truecrypt, I have >>1GB/s possible throughput, so even saturated SATA-6 from an SSD will not be limited by CPU power - hell, 1 or 2 cores are not in use anyway, nearly all of the time.

And defect sectors or other snafus? Well, if a 4k block is dead, it does not matter if it was encrypted or not. Its not like the whole thing breaks down...

You are old fashioned.

A good e-reader only needs to be charged every month or two (thanks to Lithium batteries), and is using micro usb, so you do not need a charger, cause if you are gone from home for more than a couple of weeks, you might have your cell phone charger or a laptop or something with you, anyways.

That seems a bit like crowd sourceing a successor to the Lord of the Rings.

Getting the money is easy, but getting a product out, after all the time and all the dispersed talent, that does not suck in comparison to the original, that is a challenge

Don't forget the AMD Athlon.

Pentium Pro was good (at least as long as you stayed away from 16 bit code), but the Athlon showed that you can do stuff that only PA-RISC and Alpha had before with x86 ( in particular, superscalar FPU with parallel mul/add/memory op).

At that point, it was clear that you can shove EVERYTHING into x86. And who cares about 8 (now 16) registers, if you never touch them anyway and there are 200+ rename register under the hood?

You seem to be delusional.

Although I have not installed CyanogenMod on my Nexus 4, as I have on my Asus Transformer Infinity tf700, the option is available and I will probably eventually do so. I am installing nightlies every other day on the Transformer. I have the option not to use Google's services since I have control over the OS. IMO Google is selling the unit at parts cost, that's why it's from the Play store rather than another retailer. Obviously, not being locked in is always considered in my choice of hardware.