An additional reason to use female voices is that larger speakers are needed to clearly reproduce lower-frequency sounds. Having a voice that dominates a higher frequency spectrum allows smaller speakers and smaller devices that produce sounds at sufficient volume.

Set up a ZFS 3-way mirror. Scrub weekly. Sync with offsite for "just in case."

http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Using+OpenIndiana+as+a+storage+server

Cheap, easy, fast.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/proportions.asp

Attributing this to David Kaiser is incorrect. "As far as we know, this piece began as a comment posted to Pat Dollard's blog in November 2008 by an author identified only as 'TPS'."

Frightening, but not unexpected. Do you have any references to support your claims?

Here's a spiffy way to do backups.

Create five-way ZFS mirror. Remove the front two drives of the mirror. When backup time comes around:
* zpool scrub
* perform system snapshot
* insert pair of drives from bank deposit box into disk array
* zpool replace the two disks, wait for resilver to complete - you now have a five-disk mirror in your machine

now, you can offline / store your data elsewhere.

* remove the front two disks. system operates in "degraded" state with three-way mirror.

When backup time occurs again

* zpool replace the offline volumes
* remove the next two disks

This allows you to rotate out disks, ensuring that they are spun up from time to time. zfs checks for checksum errors, helping you identify a bad drive before anything serious happens (also check SMART data).

I think this is best done with drives of the same size from different manufacturers to help reduce the chances of multiple drive failure.

I really wouldn't trust any other filesystem in a RAID. There are too many really good reasons to go with ZFS, and I've had some awful crashes with Linux software RAID.

According to extensive research done by my nose, smoking cannabis is both more odious AND disgusting than either tobacco or alcohol. If Prop 19 passes, I won't be able to walk *anywhere* on 4th street in San Rafael without having to change my clothing afterward!