I think you are advocating using SSD for swap. If you're running a very swappy system you'll wear out your SSD pretty quickly.

I've been hesitant to buy a Momentus XT, because of early flakiness and a firmware fix that seriously degraded performance. Anyone here have more info on this?

We update from a local mirror. That's the only host that apt should connect to. Most of our ubuntu boxes don't have direct outgoing http access anyway.

Them: "Have you embezzled money?"
Me thinking: Oh Crap! This is the IMPORTANT question! God, I hope I don't suddenly act nervous! My entire future is on the line.
Me saying: "N-n-n-o, n-n-ne-never!"

Yep, My Nazi-ism is required again. "Democratic" with a capital D is the correct word. "democratic" with a small "d" is what what you say means something totally different.

"Democrat" is a noun, not an adjective.

So what's the diff between VMware server and Player? All of VMware's shifting products confuse me. VirtualBox won't let me start a VM from the GUI and close the the GUI while the VM continues to run in the background. I can't come back later and reconnect to the console. That sucks!

I assume assume that running one's own Exchange server at home provides to a professional Exchange administrator the opportunity to tinker with and hack at an Exchange server at home rather than at work where bosses tend to frown upon such activities.

P.S.

I found it very hard to type "professional Exchange administrator"

http://lifehacker.com/5308039/repel-flies-with-a-bag-of-water

What worries me about the "good enough" mentality are its implications for security. If attention isn't being paid to visible aspects of quality, you can be sure under the cover that attitude is "just get it working ASAP!"

The biggest apparent hole in the Roku's featureset is the inability to play the content you already own.

True. They are not likely to add that capability either. :( Their box costs $100 and has only a very simple remote. They don't want the support costs involved in supporting anything as complicated as CIFS and codec issues. They want to sell an idiot proof black box that requires no after sale support.

That said, I'd love to be able to stream my music collection through it...

MS bought NCSA Mosaic? -- I don't think so! They bought Spyglass and renamed it IE after. Mozilla and Fire Fox are the direct descendants of Mosaic via Netscape.

Ah, a troll of ancient vintage rises again. This old canard is not worth my time to refute. I'll just call BS, and let myself be flamed for lack of content.

Yes, terminal.app is a GUI app and so is xterm. Isn't the whole purpose of a graphical display to let you have a whole bunch of xterms open at the same time?
At the moment I have 4 iTerms open with a combined total of 11 tabs. That's pretty much how I've used Unix since my first SparcStation was plopped on my desk. "Lot's o' xterms"