Not sure that makes sense...from the article: "Code that was mostly unmaintained and didn't receive new feature support work in years." The volunteers already quit working on it years ago: this is just being honest about it.

Want to keep using the hardware? Just keep using the 7.11 release.

Yes, I loved in-person browsing and I miss that with Netflix.

But no, I don't miss coming up to the register and finding that I had $7.90 in late fees. The final straw was when I didn't go for a month, and they sent $10 in late fees to a collection agency.

This is what it looks like when business models die.

Depends on what gets endorsed, of course. EA Sports Active is actually pretty intense if you follow it in good faith and use a decent resistance band.

The real key: it got me off my butt and moving for a few weeks, then I moved back onto the elliptical machine and got in decent shape for this spring. I can't complain about anything that gets you started & engaged.

Last year, I bought a LaCie 250GB NAS drive for $120 (runs on Linux) and a Western Digital USB 250GB drive for another $100.

My wife and I get all that NAS convenience for our 4 PCs, it takes only 20 watts (instead of the 80-100 for a full PC), and I don't have to worry about running updates or replacing much of anything.

That USB drive? Every week or so, I take it out of my locked cabinet at work, bring it home, run a full backup, and bring it back to work the next day.

I can appreciate a RAID approach, but honestly, if we generate something that critical we back it up on our local box anyway.