Clearly, it depends on who wins the American presidential election.

Some people are too stupid. But that is okay -- there's more then enough intelligence left for the rest of us ;)

If they are smaller/cheaper shops, they probably aren't playing around with heavy virtualization to begin with.

My point is, this is a great virtualization feature which is very accessible and affordable for smaller shops. It may not be as nice as some of the solutions offered by VMware, Citrix, etc. but it's not as expensive either.

Get a better UPS setup.

Even your 'better UPS setup' will fail, sometimes. I'm specifically thinking of several power outages at major datacenters in Northern California, which were backed by millions of dollars worth of redundant UPSs and generators, all N+1. It will fail, usually somewhere down the line where they didn't realize it, to the point where even big players like Netapp, rhn.redhat.com and Linden Labs had hosts go down.

Your complaint shows a lack of tact ;)

In many cases, the webserver IS the app server.

This sort of feature could be very useful for those smaller shops and cheap shops who haven't yet created a dedicated Web tier, or for all those internal webservers which host the Wiki, etc.

Webservers also help with capacity. Run 4 and if 1 drops off, not a big problem. But what if half the webservers drop off because the circuit which powers that side of the cage went down? And the 'redundant' power supplies on your machines weren't really 'redundant' (Thanks Dell)?

Not for news.google.com. Actually, I don't see any option to promote and remove sites on news.google.com , only on www.google.com .

FoxNews seems to dominate my personalized headlines at news.google.com, even when the story is highly irrelevant or a tangent to the topic on hand.

I'd love to be able to block Fox News. I'd also like to block all the Sports news that keeps creeping into my newsfeeds, despite my attempts to prevent it. I'm not interested in Sports news.

I like how the tone of the headline and article implies some heavy handed operation here. As if "blocking Google" required a massive engineering effort, or it was tricky to block Google.

In reality, this can be done with robots.txt (which Google honors). If you don't trust robots.txt, it's a few lines in a web server configuration file can make sure that all connections from Google will be blocked.

I agree with some other posters. The aggressive language indicates that something else is happening here, behind the scenes. Either that, or you have some really clueless managers at Murdoch's organizations.

In the case of Deduplication, Open Source has been lagging far behind commercial alternatives. Deduplication has been available from DataDomain, Netapp and other vendors for several years now.

DataDomains are a great alternative to tape storage. Several tapes were ruined, but I never had a problem retrieving data from a DataDomain.

With ZFS, maybe I can finally have my cheap Dedup server at home.

And that's why some people call this HotHardware article "shoddy journalism".

I'm sure there are other articles which test SSD drives.

SATA Third generation is a new standard, and disks are just coming out now. I wouldn't expect to much until the vendors come out with new, competitive products.

Math people don't make mistakes. They press their formulas into clay tablets and leave them for future students to read in 4000 years.

That made zero bit of sense.

You know who I am =)

And imma fixin' yer scripts right now, Mr. Three-letter-firstname

Those arcane tweaks are still there because the guy left 8 years ago and NOBODY REMEMBERS HOW TO FIX IT.

"Whatever you do, just don't touch that code. It's been working that way since before I got here. We tried to change it once and it took us 6 days to get the wolverine back in the cage."