Curious, how do you wire up a programmer?

Great idea, but I'd be way to lazy to do something like that. Nor do I have the equipment.

Offtopic, but Vistamark Hotel? I can't seem to find anything on that. Just curious.

I have two Linux machines and two NASes.

The first Linux machine, my laptop, rsyncs itself to the other Linux machine and to a QNAP NAS that's in RAID5.

The second Linux machine (desktop) backs itself up to the QNAP as well.

The DNS323 gets backed up to the QNAP NAS and to the desktop Linux machine

The QNAP nas gets backed up once a quarter to an offsite location.

I figure in my plan, I have enough redundancy and backup that I can recover to most failures.

And we (the bitcoin users) LIKE it that way! No meddling gov't to ruin the fun!

Granted, I play with bitcoin as a hobby. If my wallet was compromised tomorrow, it wouldn't be all THAT terrible. There's not much there.

Reminds me of "Reno Depot", not sure why they changed the name AND the colour, but whatever.

Yeah, I'm still not sure why hardware designers like to put the brightest blue LED on the face of the earth in every piece of electronics. My external HD could be used to land planes!

Note: I haven't consumed any coffee yet today so I can't vouch on the intelligibility of this post.

It's like random in a CD player, it will repeat songs before it even gets to another. I prefer 'shuffle', where the list is randomized and then played through before reshuffling.

A decent indicator is usually the cross walk lights. Usually when they flash the intersection is about to go yellow. Here in Ottawa, the exact moment the hand stops flashing and goes solid red, the light turns yellow. It's even better when they have a countdown. I now instinctively check the crosswalk lights to know whether I need to be checking the light or focusing all my attention on actually driving.

Excuse me for being ignorant, but what's "SMB"?

I definitely read that as "lightning", I was going to be impressed if a plant could generate that much electricity! When I saw the reference to a firefly part of me was like "Well, they ARE called lightning bugs!" and then I caught on. Come on coffee, work!

A friend of mine got a new house, and the insulation was that foil backed insulation. There was basically no reception in his house, it was like being in a giant faraday cage. On the other hand, it'd be good for wifi.

This is more a comparison between runtimes and servers, and less about language.

The reason this is interesting, is it's a very simple test, and hows the maximum performance. Requests can never be faster than returning a simple string. CLR + ISS is slower than JVM + Tomcat. Unfortunately, we don't know where exactly the performance difference lies.

Completely irrational, but after having a Windows Mobile phone, I don't want a Windows Phone. I just can't stand the thought of going back to Microsoft for my phone.

With enough money, you could just buy HBO completely! That'd solve the problem!