all you really need to do is build an installation USB stick and archive your deb files (for example) on it, and put /home and maybe /etc on a SDHC card. Anything important is kept on that card and backed up to another USB stick periodically. When the machine fails, you boot the machine off the installer and install the archives. When the card fails, you restore to a new one from the USB key (but you can use the USB key in the interim if you don't have a new SDHC card handy. Do you feel lucky?) If you create users in the same order each time (especially if they are few) then you don't need /etc very badly.

Not in 30-40 degree heat as well. Sadly, deserts are both dusty AND hot. Worst place in the world for computers. Except maybe the arctic, since LCD's just don't work. Even there though, you can always add heat to the equation. It's a lot harder to remove heat..
I think the best suggestion so far has been the "buy a decent machine and stick it in a bar-fridge and run the cables out to cheapo monitors and keyboards".

It seems that the presentation focuses heavily on the NetXtreme framework, which is specific to Broadcom. Doesn't Intel, the other major NIC vendor/manufacturer, use their own proprietary security and administrative protocols on their devices?

I wonder how secure Realtek's stuff is; their drivers/software leave me to think that their hardware code is ripe for discovery...

Cool! (Not that you had this problem, but that you can see UV light.) I wish I could see UV...working with high-power UV lasers always makes me a bit nervous because I never know if I accidentally took a shot in the eye (which can, incidentally, cause cataracts). With a visible laser you can obviously see it, even with an IR laser you at least know when you develop a small blind spot haha...but take a shot with a UV laser and you wouldn't know it, you'd just end up getting cataracts earlier than you otherwise would.

I disagree. The government is just made up of people. And people, pardon me, are assholes...

addictiveness is a function of biochemistry, not delivery route

although it does change the dose received, you got me there

Fascinating! You seem to be implying that there is more than one!! And I had always thought they were just a myth. What truly amazing times we live in, where such people live right alongside the rest of us, and we don't even know they're there!

Tell me, is it true that you all have fingertips as pointed as sharpened pencils, which allow you to actual use the OS? Or is it, like my friend believes, that you are all atoning for some great, and unspeakable crime? Perhaps you were AOL developers in your past life?
:-P

Maybe people's heads have just been getting smaller? It would sure explain a lot.

I live in a community nearby the incident. Our local newspaper ran the headline on the story as if she was there to film the movie. Wow.

Most of the doujin games based off touhou are NOT free, they're sold. Check out himeya shop online, they have a pretty good listing of them and are one of the few companies that buy them up and resell them to US customers.

I just learned a new word.

If your battleship just hit a mine and the keel is broken, it's hardly a troll or flippant to point out that the first class cabins might need a few extra towels.

> by ximenes (10)

You're the tenth registered user of /.? Shiiiit. I don't think I've seen a UID in the double-digits before.

Sigh you don't get it, you should check out this documentary on daniel tammet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqLzoiVzEY8

Watch the whole thing when you get the time. Notice his unusual experience of numbers as shapes.

I think you may hold the record for most progress on a real KS! Well my email address is the same as always (the one I have for you is 4 years old) so if you'd really be interested in the RM80, let me know. And I'd love to hear about the SCSI project!