I kinda like this feature, as it enables me to stop at traffic lights and then rest (or forget about) my foot until the traffic lights turn green. I find that "hold-the-brake-or-else-it-slips-forward" mode a much more annoying default - possibly because the situations where that mode is optimal are very rare (at least for me).

Technically, a bridge that has fallen down _is_ more stable than before. :)

If something is fun and challenging, it's more likely to "get your exercise in for the day" in the long run, despite the "time commitment and cost" "drawbacks" (ok, cost is definitely a drawback, but time commitment ceases to be one soon). I don't disagree with your statement, if all exercising options available to you are boring you, but I can relate to GP's sentiment for that very sport (climbing) - never boring, and the amount is always limited only by how much my body can take (if I take it too far, small injuries start appearing).

Twitter execs?

So the TrollTrace.com is finally here?

This rarely happens, as it seems. I hope, at least.

However, once someone figures out that common PHP applications, which are currently mostly exploited for sending spam and distributing malware, can be abused in this crypto-ransom fashion, some "interesting" times will follow. Specially vulnerable deployments are those where the very same user that owns executable files is used for running that application too (I am looking at your defaults, cPanel), or, to a lesser extent, applications that permit executable code in some writeable directories.

I guess encrypting application code will not be THAT problematic, but encrypting database content is another matter altogether.

Hosting companies raising backup restore prices in 3, 2, 1...

Precisely the opposite of my experience (albeit on MB Air).

To summarize what is explained below with more details, when I bought MB Air and installed Ubuntu, I consented to:
* some configuration tweaking in the beginning (wifi, brightness bug, etc)
* occasional packet loss on Wifi (reboot resolves the issue)
* some SATA controller errors in syslog
* occasional problems with hibernation (if that happens, it succeeds if I reopen and close the lid again)
* having to hold down alt key on every reboot to boot Ubuntu (I consider this a feature as it hides my OS)

Benefits:
* quality hardware,
* longer battery life (even surpassing OS X),
* way more usable OS (personal opinion),

Longer explanation:

I was a Linux (Ubuntu mostly) user before and I did not own any MB before Air. General experience with laptops+linux was: it generally works well, except for exotic components and 3/4 of battery life compared to Windows.

I must note here that Ubuntu satisfies my computing requirements very well (sysadm work, Linux systems mostly) and having multiple workspaces and being able to quickly switch from one to another really aids mental context switch when I get the call about something unrelated to my current task.

So, when I got MBAir, I really tried (honestly, I really did) to use OS X as my primary OS. However after a couple of days of frustration (with the final nail in the OSX coffin being requirement to pay around 20$ to get workspaces in two rows!) I gave in and installed 14.04. I try to think of myself as NOT retarded for computing-related stuff, but if after a couple of days OS still feels weird (or better, if going from Ubuntu to MacOSX feels like step back), I do not believe "the most intuitive OS" any more.

Hardware wise, what surprised me was that battery life was even better than if I run OS X (15h vs 12h). Note that nothing cpu-intensive is done on this machine - it is generally a lightweight terminal to servers that do the heavy lifting.

I learned to live with glitches that come with running Ubuntu on this HW. If I had to do it all over again, I would do it all over again (except for those days of OS X frustration).

My €2c.

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Route Nagios notifications to your phone and you will never describe your text message notification sound with an adjective "pleasant" :)

To self: RTFS!

I remember seeing this vid a while ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UYa6gQC14o

According to my server metric graphs the additional threads are only useful for WIO CPU states.

For example, on Intel 4core i7 920 processor, enabling hyperthreading impersonates additional four cores. But CPU utilization reported by metrics software shows that USR and SYS cpu times will only go up to 50% and WIO will add another 12%. This corresponds to having a virtual core used for waiting to IO stuff. Additional 3 virtual cores do not serve anything at all.

Location of Slovenia

Mine were:
"Insect, insect, insect, insect, insect, insect, insect, insect, insect, love."

Why did I reply to the last one with "love" insead of "insect"? Well, after nine "insect" answers I thought I was going to be tagged as "not normal" if I only saw insects there, so I had to outweight the first nine answers :)
I didn't take the test voluntarily, obviously.

Thanks for the info.

Looks promising! Tnx!