Anyone who finds themselves in Philadelphia would do themselves a favor with stopping by our little Art Museum. Their collection of Murder-Death-Kill weaponry would make William Wallace goo his kilt.

The overview is here and individual pictures are here. A truly dizzying array of polearms is part of the collection.

If we lived in a proper world, the RPG would have been first, followed next by Alcohol, Doritos, & Dice - essential for any gaming session.

Indeed and well said Sire. My faith in tech humanity and common sense is somewhat restored (at least for tonight).

Look me in the eye and tell me you compile everything from source, after verifying each line of code. Do you trust Mozilla? Canonical? Berkeley? What an asinine statement.

Thank you for the RL chuckle :)

This, and /endthread. I have enjoyed /. lo these many moons, but these types of "questions" border on something you'd see on the late (and little missed) Call for Help on TechTV. Please, please start raising the bar again, huh?

I agree with the AC - kludges are part of the tech world sadly. Who among us hasn't hammered a proverbial round peg into a proverbial square hole once in a while to deliver a project on time, make a customer happy, etc. I can't imagine anyone who takes pride in their work likes using kludges, but sometimes they gotta be done...

Damn stupid dropdowns - unmodding this as flamebait.

I am not affiliated with Digital Ocean either, but a pal of mine told me about it a few months ago - very nice responsive support and decent prices.

He can get a free year of EC2 hosting. Windowz and Linux both. Amazon may be a Big Corporation but this ain't bad

Entirely offtopic, (and I am prepared for the karma hit) but today is my birthday!

I do both. local backups and remote. Not advocating one over the other, but I have used Crashplan for the last two years and am happy with it. $60.00 a year and it has saved me twice. Currently I have 788.4GB backed up on it - they are very very loose about the amount you can back up (thankfully)

Guess that says something else about me as well. I lived in a shady part of South Florida for a bit. I owned a shotgun and a pistol at the time. If someone was egregious enough to break in, I was prepared (with training and legally owning said firearms).

When I moved elsewhere, I sold them, as I could not justify a pressing need for them anymore. Yes, I agree with the GP - civilized may not have been my adjective of choice, perhaps "appropriate" would be better. Sure seems appropriate enough to defend myself and my property if someone is going to be bold enough to commit a break-in. How is defending yourself considered to be barbaric?

In Soviet Russia, the dog throws...wait, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

In Soviet Russia, the electronics steal...huh, what?

In Soviet Russia, dogs steal elec.....hmmmmm

little help here, guys?