If you actually looked into how these things work, buckling spring keyboards are still essentially a membrane mechanism that closes the switch contact, and the click you hear has nothing to do with electrical connections... connecting. Cherry and alps are more purely mechanical. It's valid to prefer buckling spring, but you clearly don't know the first thing about mechanical keyboards.

RAID actually IS a valid solution to combat the problem of failing drives, even when the technology in those drives is a moving target. Ariel densities have gone up, meaning tolerances have to be tighter, which makes it harder to build a reliable drive than it was some time ago, and that trend will only continue to increase. RAID 5 specifically might not be the best solution for today's needs, but RAID 6 is a step in the right direction. And to call RAID 6 a bandaid is hardly fair. There is no storage methodology that you could put in place now that could be guaranteed valid 10 years from now. Besides, 1+0 is gaining popularity and there are extensions beyond that. RAID 1+0 in particular is much quicker in rebuild time than raid 5/6. You give up half your disk space to redundancy, but you take comparatively little performance hit during rebuilds and it's very fast in the day-to-day. Granted, in worst case scenario you are no more redundant than you would be with RAID 5 (i.e., you lost both disks in the same mirror before it could be rebuilt on a hot spare), but in the best case scenario you could lose up to half your disks and keep chugging along.

I drive a jetta tdi in the USA. oddly enough, I have a lot more trouble finding diesel fuel in the town where I live than I do on road trips. I can be out in the middle of nowheresville and as long as the filling station is near the interstate they will most likely have diesel fuel. This makes sense I guess, considering that all 18 wheelers are diesel and they have to fill up somewhere. but downtown in any major or even medium sized metropolis, not so much. still, it's no big deal for me, I know where the diesel stations are near my home and near work, and when taking trips it has yet to be a problem. I even have loaded a diesel station POI database into my garmin, which has come in handy more than once.

I have had a '09 VW Jetta TDI Sportwagen since last November and absolutely love it. It has 140HP, which is not mind blowing, but the real story is the torque. 0-60, while respectable for a station wagon (~8.5 secs) won't raise eyebrows, but it's very capable when merging on the on-ramp or when accelerating out of a curve. While nobody will mistake it for a sports car, It's actually a lot of fun. Besides that, it's incredibly efficient. There simply isn't a gasoline powered vehicle that is anywhere near this much fun that gets anywhere this kind of mileage. It's far from gutless. This car basically flies in the face of each and every diesel stereotype: It's nearly odorless at the exhaust, no black smoke EVER. It's actually cleaner burning than many gasoline engines. It starts easily in the cold, to the point where it doesn't even need an engine block warmer. My old ford powerstroke was terrible in this regard. It's also very very quiet, barely any louder than a gasoline engine. It's very tough to tell that this is a diesel at all, other than the TDI badge at the rear and the rare visits to the pump. I'm only hoping that the positive diesel stereotypes still prove true, namely reliability. There are mercedes diesels out there with well over 1 million miles on them. Oh, and supposedly the BMW 335d diesel is out of the world fun, haven't had a chance to test drive one.