I really don't know what the hell you're talking about or how it relates to the topic at hand.

I appreciate you replying directly to my post, that is rather rare.

I really don't see the problem here... looking up the App in question, it is $3.49 here (Canada).

In business, prices are set based on how people value the product. There has been over 10,000 downloads, and many 5-star reviews. Clearly people see the value in his app. Although, it is entirely possible the developer raised the price after racking up his numbers.

If you want the app, pay the fee. If you are squabbling over the cost of a coffee at Starbucks, you have more financial issues than you think and if that is the case, you probably don't need that shiny Android device.

If it ticks you off so much, fork the most recent open source version you can find and try to build a community behind it.

I do understand this is all about GPL Violations, but if what brought you to investigating it was sticker price shock, I am just baffled by your cheapness.

Where I metioned a properly configured & compiled kernel I was referring to one of the binary packages from one of the mainstream Distros suck as Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, RHEL/CentOS, Arch or Slaskware. These should all include the wacom drivers at least as modules. If you use an udev or similar, the module wipp be loaded on demand.

I compile my own kernels for a number of reasons, but that is me.

If you like MacOSX and it worls for you that's great. Use what you know, no sense fiddling with stuff you don't understand.

RAID-10 or RAID-6 can tolerate 2 drive failures.

There are Wacom tablet drivers in the Linux Kernel and Photoshop works great under WINE. Surely it should "Just Work" on a properly compiled & configured kernel/userland?
This is a sincere question.

I use Photoshop CS (v9? - also tried CS4 trial and it worked pretty good, but my workstation is too old it ran really slow) under WINE all the time but I have never used a Wacom tablet. My brother has one so I am sure I could try it, but I know I specifically stripped out Wacom drivers from my kernel when I upgraded to 3.6.8 earlier this week.

Hotswap absolutely exists in 1U. 4x2TB HDDs in RAID-10 will provide best availability:cost:performance ratios. I have not fiddled with 3 or 4TB drives yet.

2U would probably be ideal in a 4-way setup, for air flow, indeed. But if you need number crunching 1U offers better density.

Heat should not be an issue with proper active cooling.

Augh. Damn me for using my phone... That message should have been for parent.

Sorry about that.

- Core density
- Virtualization extension on all Opteron chips (and now most desktop chips, even the A6-4455M in my laptop)

Not all XEONs have hardware virtualization. Only some of the most expensive chips have it and even then, it can be spotty.

Bottom line, AMD wins in virtualization/"cloud" market (and supercomputing).

I'd probably go for single socket, 16-core Opteron on a supermicro or Tyan standard ATX board I can plop in my existing chassis. Supermicro will need a breakout cable for front panel buttons, but no big deal. In this situation I can fit most sized heatsinks just need to be sure it will fit on the socket.

AMD has huge advantages in the server market, I'm really surprised people are so stuck on XEON's.

You can't cram 64 XEON cores into a 1U. Not to mention Intel is spotty on their hardware virtualization extensions.

Intel has the lead in power consumption, sure. But if you're looking into running anything Xen, KVM or VMware in production, the cost savings AMD brings to the table makes them a competitive contender.

I'm in the market for a new Workstation. I've been looking at an Opteron instead of the desktop models. Primary reason being 16 cores on one chip, at a lower power consumption than the 8-core Desktop model.

I just helped a client of mine move email providers, since they all have iphones and use Outlook to manage their accounts, when I set up the new accounts I used strong passwords (32 randomly generated characters).

When I printed off the spreadsheet so they could file it away, they freaked out and demanded I changed them back. Their old passwords were simple ones like you mentioned.

I don't even understand it, I explaines they don't have to put in their password when they want to check their email, outlook takes care of it. If for any off chance.reason, Outlook or their phones lose the password, they have the list. So long as they have reasonable passwords on their computers and phones its a non issue and protects then from external attacks.

I'm just the web developer and I can't tell them what to do but I was blown away... it doesn't even boil down to laziness in this case.

You're still going to want redundancy. At the very least 2 identical drives mirrored with software RAID.

If redundancy is important, 500GB/1TB "Enterprise" drives are cheap. 4 drives in RAID10 would give the best cost:redundancy:performance ratio. You can probably get 4 HDD's for the cost of the one $500 240GB SSD you mentioned.

Agreed. XFS is solid and fast, with relatively low CPU overhead.

EXT4 from what I have read is very good, as well. Some debate its stability though.

I've noticed a recent trend when I download via Bittorrent, nobody downloads off me. I have a reasonable 25/2.5Mbps connection.

Starting to think my ISP is throttling in my favour.