Gasoline is not the only thing derived from petroleum resources.. You will still depend heavily on OPEC for all of your plastics, fertilizers, pesticides, and thousands of other uses. So OPEC will still continue to be pretty difficult to ignore.

I don't know, the guy does pretty good house remodels down in Florida these days.

Pretty sure you can still mine vespene gas after it's depleted, just has lower yields.

Come on man, don't you know that was a parable? He doesn't work with actual women, nor would they come over to play video games.

Totally agree -- the overall design is much cleaner, but the excessive white space around everything gives the impression of bloated pages..

Though I think you are being sarcastic, talk to the majority of the people practicing medicine and they will agree that when speaking to most level-headed mothers, their intuition is often better than the doctors opinion after seeing the patient for 5-30 minutes.

Medical science is absolutely a wonderful thing, but keep in mind it's not perfect, especially when it comes to children.

Bingo. If they already have a sniffer on your local network, you were compromised long before they decrypted your routers login.
Most people send way more information over regular HTTP during the course of the day that you can imagine (people still using non SSL/TLS pop3/imap or SMTP is a great one).

For a server with say, 16x4GB dimms, that can add up real quick. Consider a farm of 40 such machines. Every watt counts.. when dealing in extreme scales (both small and large)
Not to mention, heat generated is just as significant as power drawn.

I think this is best demonstrated by BEA/Oracle JRockit. Nobody every bought JRockit as a stand alone replacement for HotSpot. It pretty much only used when packaged with BEA/Oracle Weblogic. Doesn't matter that it had some really cool hooks into Mission Control, and JMX extensions (which java eventually caught up to).

Judging by plenty of the comments in threads similar to this, I think most of us are tired of seeing Ask Slashdot posts on how to do his or her job. Had this been really cutting edge, or new grounds, I could understand. However.. Enterprise PKI? Seriously? If this is to be the continuing trend of Ask Slashdot, I need to adjust my filters.. because that is just sad.

I'm finding more and more IT folks are standing around waiting to be spoon-fed solutions, instead of trying to research and educate themselves on what is already out there. It worries me that this is not just the trend in IT, but across all occupations. Am I just getting old and crotchety, or is this a new trend?

I know, cosmic rays sound so much cooler, but it's far more likely he has some crappy memory and/or his memory refresh timings are too high.

DRAM memory cells have to be refreshed pretty often (anywhere from 7.8usec-12usec), otherwise they become unreliable. If his BIOS has the memory timings set to something obscurely long, it may be there are specific rows/cells on his DRAM modules that are too weak to read after bleeding off a bit of charge. Changing the refresh timing would likely improve the situation, causing the memory to refresh it's state more often.

Sadly, I'm not sure this comment warranted a troll rating..

I'll cut you some slack: 1,2,3 and 5 are certainly valid points for why virtualization/hypervisors. 4 is completely non-sense. Virtual hosting or aliased IP's is far more manageable than one VM per site. The only exception might be if you need customer isolation, but even that can be accomplished without virtualization.

My main value out of hypervisors is the detachment from hardware dependencies. If I can upgrade server hardware without affecting my "servers", by effectively just reallocating or migrating a VM to another host, my job as an admin is remarkably easier. Additionally, much of the HA and resource optimization (memory dedupe and such) abilities of hypervisors nowadays make it significantly more effective to run more apps with less hardware, while still being able to provide redundancy and availability.