So, which distro has the most active instances running on Azure?

... and I keep disabling it.

No, even if UNIX was reasonably priced, we still would have written FOSS. The freedom to try anything and experiment is at the heart of the g33k.

Chas, you're my people. The LD version through my VP50. There is nothing like it. The jet-engine startup, the anticipation. The total lack of any control. The movie is on, and you're watching it now. They don't know how glorious it was. They don't know how glorious it is.

First of all, don't run RAID at home for data storage. RAID systems are for corporate high availability. They are inherently dangerous the moment you have to touch the config and only worth it if you need a drive system available 24/7 with hot spare. Truly stable RAID systems are also huge power hogs and heat sources. You can build highly redundant file systems for a fraction of the cost, with a small fraction of the power.

This is easily the 15th time I've heard of someone loosing huge amount of personal data to RAID. The last one I heard was everything for the poor fool, wedding pictures, kids pictures, etc...

Beyond that, I have about 20TB myself. I use DFSR to keep it highly available, then a one way rsync job with no purge. That way if I mess up one of my replicas, it won't get purged from the rsync target. I take an encrypted version of the rsync target to a friends house regularly so there's no chance of massive loss. I also back up limited encrypted data to the cloud, but only documents, code, and pictures.

Don't add complication where you don't need it.

Ha, yes, agreed.

What's required to be on modern TV
- Be as cheap as possible and thus totally suck
- Continue previous statement, but add shocking situations or violence
- Tell a story that induces anger about everything that's wrong with the world
- Have a panel of judges review the performance of yet another reality star
- Cook something you will never eat, or see, or see before you eat
- Watch fat people get skinny

What's banned from modern TV
- Good Science Fiction or Fantasy (you know what I mean)
- Truly deep and telling story lines that make you think about the wonderous possbilities
- Show all the good things that are happening 100 feet outside your door 5,000 times more often than the bad

... I can't imagine why people don't have a TV.

This is the greatest post I've seen on /.

I'll program any language on any platform, they all suck in one way or another. I must say that .NET is outstanding and easy when working with enterprise Microsoft platforms. Also, unlike what is noted in this little opus, you can call whatever API you need from .NET... pinvoke...duh

Anyway, it's clear the person who wrote this slash never had to write enterprise automation using ATL COM.

I'm afraid you are vendor or author locked no matter what you do. In the event you want to go a straight C++ route then you'll have to be everything to everyone, and you'll be compiling like it's Gentoo95.

I think this is universal to all admins. We have to regularly clean up both our windows and *nix systems due to bad administration. It's not the tech, it's the unexperienced associate running it.

I was in the same boat until I discovered DOSBox. I have no networking on it but it does everything else I need and someday it might even emulate 3dfx

I agree totally here. Essentially, SyFy has become the masters of killing a good show.

Here's their board room meetings:
Let's cut down the number of shows so there's less advertiser revenue overall.
Let's not advertise the shows to save on costs, people will just come and watch.
Let's break the seasons apart so that people only get a small glimpse at one time and there's no room for depth.
Let's cluster all the shows together twice a year and show them all at once so for the other 60% of the year we can show nothing but crap shows and B movies.
Let's drive all our investments based on who watched the show live and on cable, because in the modern world, we all have cable and the internet is only for web pages.
Most importantly, if the show is doing well, we should move it to a time after everyone has gone to bed, or show our 1.7 million viewer show at the same time as other networks are showing their 25 million viewer show.

Listen, I'm not saying Caprica was the greatest show ever, it actually wasn't that great. But I like it, it was mildly interesting how they delved into the virtual world, the back story, and the moral dilemmas. They had a chance but it's clear that SyFy just wants to kill their good shows because they're ignorant of the coming trends.

I was a DirecTV customer for nine years. I've been running home network with a PC on each TV for about the last four years, however, the PCs were just for watching movies, listening to music, and looking at pictures off the network.

Then I found the jewel that is the Hulu desktop. I don't watch a lot of TV, but everything I do watch is on there. The Hulu quality isn't very good on an HDTV but the interface is generally ok. So, in the end we dropped DirectTV and now the media PCs run the Hulu desktop, BeyondTV to get HDef over the air, and Boxee for everything else. It's pretty slick.

As a side note the guy at DirecTV would not let me go because I'd been a customer for so long. I think he must have made five different offers to me, each getting progressively better. In the end he offered me an upgraded package and nine months of free service. It was crazy.

It's a real shame there are only 10 here and the focus seems to be on a game feature rather than possible depth. Games like Gothic and Birth of the Federation also hold distinction in my mind. In their time their technology was nothing special, but they had the pinnacle skill of the greatest games, re-playability..