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Comment Re:A Good Thing (Score 1) 292

The person is dead. They don't care anymore about Facebook. Let them fade, remember the good times you shared, and move forward. Honoring someone's memory doesn't mean canonizing them. If that person was the only thing keeping a group of people connected, then their absence means that the group should drift apart and move on - that's how humans should work.

Once upon a time people all lived in the same village all their lives and could visit the local cemetary to lay flowers and remember. Now many of us live a long way from people we care about. My friend died on the other side of the world and for me her facebook page is the only memorial I can visit. Dead people don't care about stones or urns or trees or park benches with plaques either - all that stuff is as a comfort for the living and I don't see why a facebook memorial page should be anything different.

Comment Re:Linkstation Pro Duo (Score 2, Interesting) 697

I dealt with the HDD issue by buying an 8GB compactflash card and $10 cf-ide adaptor from ebay. Data's stored on a mirrored terabyte (which can now be turned off for 90% of the time), and Debian is running quite nicely on the Atom board I've got in there. The loud chipset fan was shitting me but I fixed it with a less-cheap aftermarket 40mm fan (which incidentally is held to the board with a bent paperclip). My favourite bit is the 3.5" ext. HDD docking bay that automatically selectively syncs my portable drive to my storage array.

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