I'm quite sure banks are really friendly to you if you have enough money.

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I pity the fool who depends on Facebook for his well-being.

> I couldn't pick out any attractive ones because their faces were all pixelated!

And? I'm into that. I gave them all 3s.

The theoretical limit of a DS1010+ and a DX510 (which is the only Synology offering in the 20 TB range) is actually 16 TB due to them using ext3. With 2 TB drives the best you can actually get are 14.5 TB with RAID-6 or RAID-5+Hotspare. Spanning a RAID-5 over all disks would result in a volume slightly larger than 16 TB, which will not work. I've tried it.
Still, 14.5 TB is pretty much okay in my book. If you actually do need more, build a Backblaze pod (same price league as two DS1010+ with a DX510 ea.; more then double the drives of that) or be spendy and get an X4500 (related as far as the number of drives goes. A completely different class in all other aspects.)

The parent post should be modded up -- I came to this comment thread specifically to mention a Drobo. I don't actually have one because I haven't needed the storage, but they've gotten stellar reviews online. They also appear to scale up relatively easily from the cheap 4-drive Drobos to the bigger 8-drive ones.

One other thing you should consider, especially with a lot of people recommending dedicated servers, is power consumption: the bigger and heavier the box, the more you're going to pay in monthly power bills. This is one reason why using an old computer that's sitting around and stuffing 6 HDs into it might not be an optimal solution: if it costs you another $10 - $15 a month in power, you can relatively quickly spend your way out of whatever savings you've nominally achieved.

That isn't "more open-minded", that is just exposure to the world. You would have gotten as much or more exposure just from working in a large city.
How many different ideas did you come across at that university? Did you have any professors who voted for Reagan, or against Clinton, or for Bush 43, or against Obama (depending on when you went to school)? There are other issues that could be used. My point is that the overwhelming majority of universities are ideologically monolithic.

Filing a petition could possibly give more relevance to the case for malamanteau to exist in wikipedia...

How would that benefit Adobe? Sell less of their software out of spite? Business is about making money, not about being the coolest kid in the lunchroom. Adobe wants to retain its current customers (developers).. they could give a rats ass about content... You really think Adobe is pushing for flash support on the iStuff so all the turtle-necks at Starbucks can 'punch the monkey and win'?

Yeah but the advantage of Vista for x64 users was XPx64 users got 64-bit drivers without the annoyance of Vista. Since the kernels were the same, you could use Vista drivers on your system. But honestly, if you were using x64 it was for RAM purposes and your machine most likely had support directly from the manufacture. What sucks is a few of those manufactures stop supporting drivers for their systems beyond XP x64 (I'm looking at you SUN MICROSYSTEMS!)

BAM!.. shot through the heart

Your “valid” approach is paint everyone with a wide brush, and when someone yells “hey that doesn’t apply to me... not even to most of us!”, you retort “yes it does”.

Anyway, I’m really, really confused at this point what you’re even trying to argue. This discussion has diverged so far from the original topic that I’m not even sure it’s salvageable at this point.

I truly hate parking meters only when I see them in front of a whole streets worth of empty storefronts. Parking costs almost can't be high enough in big, bustling cities because automobiles tend to destroy the urban environment. Take transit. Or, park it in a garage and walk. Or just walk. Driving isn't a right. Owning a car isn't a right. And parking it where ever you damn well please isn't a right.

Parking is only a problem for those too lazy to walk.

Sorry, I wasn't clear: I was referring to big companies in the business software world, such as Microsoft and Adobe. Certainly the games world has been suffering a rash of silly DRM-related failures recently, but alas, that sort of software is not a common sight on my work machines. :-)

if you call microsoft asking for support for something that they have EOL'd, they will be very happy to point you towards a microsoft-trained and microsoft-certified consultant tech in your area who has the expertise to help you.

Trust me, MS is still getting their money, one way or another.