There were 2 teenagers dancing up by the door.

Another senseless management book inspired waste of time. Michael Scott must manage this store.

OK, so take the 2 most expensive parts of a camera, the imaging sensor and the lens, and turn them into removable modules. Just because of some sloppy shooters getting dust on the sensor? It sounds like someone in marketing stopped by the engineering department (or vice versa).

Or maybe they're just planning a special offer: buy the lens/sensor and get the body for free!

Rock Band: Jethro Tull edition!

Just don't let your friends see you riding one.

Why doesn't VH-1 do a show about what ABBA's been up to lately? First taking on the 1970s pop music scene and now building robots? Amazing!


What's that? ABB?


Nevermind.

Think of the possibilities for the office slut at the Christmas party.

"Six minutes may be a long time to look at something you can't touch"

Try waiting on a pre-order. Forget six minutes. Six weeks at least!

This weekend I spent a few hours building a new NAS using the Via Artigo A2000 and freenas. It only has 2 drive bays, but what a deal. $225 open box from Fry's. The best part is that it has a CF slot on the motherboard, so the OS can be independent of the data. According to the Kill-a-Watt, it, along with my my router and UPS draw 45 Watts at idle and about 65 during read/write cycles. Transfer speeds are fairly good, seeing about 200-230Mbps between my laptop and the NAS, but I think the laptop was struggling to keep up, not the NAS.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/a2000/index.jsp
http://www.freenas.org

So the QNAP has RAID 5, but less RAM (I installed 1GB, it will support 2). Seems a little expensive to me. Most of the time I spent was setting up the RAID, services and shares, something that would have to be done with this box as well, so I don't think there's really much time that would be saved. I guess hot swapping might be an advantage, but for a home server I don't think it would be essential. Hardware RAID might get you better throughput, but I had to upgrade the home network to GigE to see any major speed increase over my old Linksys slug anyway.

Still can't understand the price.

People in Japan have had that kind of bandwidth for years, on their cellphones.

How many minutes 'til you use up the 5GB limit?

"We now go live to Bill Williams at the scene... Bill? Are you there?

Apparently, we've done too many remotes this month."