They never even define "popular". I would assume popular means the number of friends you have or some other metric. There are people on FB that have a good number of friends that are really obnoxious (at least to me) to have as friends on FB.

A friend of mine on FB who has over 4,000 friends is a nationally known guitar player/singer in a band.

I never understood why there is a hardware button that was SOOOO easy to hit by accident over something that could much easier and better been done with software.

Can all hardware vendors get away from the CAPLOCKS key?

Maybe I'm a naysayer, but I fail to see how a coal powered trolly car* is more efficient than an internal combustion engine. Sounds like 1800s to me.

* 57% of the electricity in the US comes from coal, and it is shipped over aluminum and copper wires, very similar to a trolley car.

***The lack of CALs and different levels of the OS already makes them easier to deal with than windows licensing.***

Whats next? Oracle licenses?

There is a difference between patents and trademarks. Like copyright, you can trademark anything, and again like copyright, its up to the holder to defend it themselves. Trademarks are there to maintain brand integrity and recognition. Its OK, there is no controversy here. If a rapper wants to Donky Kong stuff, I don't see where this would be a trademark violation because they are in entirely different businesses, and there is no way to confuse Mr Rapper with Nintendo.

HHGTTG was first a radio show, and everything else is a derivative including 'That Movie'..

Sounds a lot like an unpopular tax.

I'm actually reading a book about filesystems with a focus on the BFS from Be Inc. The author in it actually says that renaming a file is the most complicated operation on a file. Before the file is renamed, lots of validation must take place in some implementations a rename locks the entire filesystem. The source and destination must be verified to be reachable and unused. The rename could go into another directory, so its must do the proper checks there as well. There are edge cases if the source or destination is a directory.

Its still seems like an O(1) maybe with a big 1, but this author spent a considerable amount of time on renaming.

I've got an SSD in my laptop, and I couldn't be happier. Its easily lengthened the life of my laptop by about 2 years.

I think the trojan writers already came up with this idea.

Give it up. Some people feel compelled on social networking sites to complain about people using social networking sites. I guess /. is different in that you don't have to use your real name.

I would frequently get stuttering with this setup, even just doing flac audio files.

I'm thinking of one of these:

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/home-entertainment/d3fe/

Any experiences here? It looks great from the description.

Yeah, ever since the enterprise drives and the 1 million hour MTBF, RAID arrays above level 0 have became obsolete.

We live in good times.

New to dell shops. Nice to meet you.

I have to call BS here. Dell servers come with 3 year maintenance at a minimum and will replace the power supplies. Power supplies are a known failure point on machines, and on those that care they get redundant ones. Also, I've never heard of SFF servers.

I work with well over $2mil of Dell servers and more than that from other vendors. I prefer Dells.

Idle. A joke. Content please...