I went through the same process myself. I used Ardour on Linux for years, and didn't even realize how painful it was until I got my MBP.

Just saying.

Yeah, beer drinkers would call it "watery." You should try real Belgian white beer sometime, which is what Blue Moon is aiming at. You'll find it more flavorful, and just a lot more satisfying.

Unfortunately I can't recommend anything off the top of my head... Maybe Hoegaarden? It's not the best I've had, but it's the only one I've had and liked, and whose name I can recall right now.

I'll have to admit that Blue Moon won't be your worst choice in some situations, especially when the options are Bud, Bud Light, Coors anything, and, oh, PBR...

I have to disagree on Blue Moon - I find it weak and about as representative of what a good witbier can be as a bud light is representative of a good pilsner.

And yeah, it's a matter of taste, but I wouldn't drink it.
 

Most encryption algorithms, whether implemented on a file or real-time on a disc, are not primarily concerned with ECC. Plenty use hashes, but not for the purpose of correcting errors caused by disk corruption. There are even less of the kind the author is looking for (real-time total disc encryption with ECC seamlessly integrated). It's not my speciality so I don't know of them

But if we're talking about sending and receiving data from long-term storage (rather than real time), that is easily attainable if you separate the encryption and error detection tasks. For error detection, and just as important, being able to fix those errors when they happen (two separate things) the term you're looking for is Forward Error Correction (FEC) software. If you're serious about backing up your data, and it still being around and undamaged in a few years, you should be serious about FEC. It amazes me how many enterprise-level companies frequently back up millions of files, but have no strategy for ECC.

Using vdmfec (my favorite FEC software. For linux), say you have a file that is 1gb that you'd back up with it (Large archive files are especially important to use forward error correction on, because plenty of them, if they get data corruption in the wrong place, get totally screwed up.) So, let's say with vdmfec you select the blocksize to be 5 kb, and then you select two positive whole number parameters, K and N. For every original K blocks, N blocks are written so that if up to N-K fail, you can still recover all original K blocks.

In plain english, if I set a K value of 10 and an N value of 30, then the first 50kb of the file would be transformed into 150kb. There could be quite a few bits accidentally flipped in that 100kb over time, but as long as any 10 of the 30 blocks did not suffer any damage, that set of blocks would be entirely fine. You can pass different K and N arguments according to your needs (reliability v. size) for a reasonably reliable disc over the short term, K=15 and N=20 would do just fine.

For encryption, use whatever you'd like, total disk encryption, folder encryption etc. One concern is that if you use any error detection or correction, it establishes a reliable data pattern which can be used to break the encryption. This concern can be solved by encrypting before applying error correction instead of after, or using encryption of sufficient bitstrength so that it will take another several decades for the hardware to be developed to crack it.

You can do that without the cheap android tablet. It's cheaper!

A cheap device you don't use is better how?

It's interesting to note (*) that the current state of affairs regarding marriage in Israel is more unpopular among secular Jews who want to marry other secular Jews without the overbearing involvement of an orthodox rabbi than among people who are interested in marrying someone of a different faith. The latter seem to be better organized and have better parliamentary representation, so something might actually change on their behalf.

(*) Interesting to me, at least...

Where do you get that? Interfaith marriage is not illegal in Israel, and non-jews can certainly own land. There's nothing in the constitution about that. Really, the "constitution" is a set of fundamental laws with an ad hoc constitutional status - i.e. this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Human_Dignity_and_Liberty

While it's true that marriage law is a mess in Israel, it's because of a bunch of reasons having more to do with internal politics than a desire to discriminate against anyone, and the situation you're describing is basically fiction.

My advice: Nah. When I used DOS, I kept solving problems to get things done, but they were stupid, unnecessary problems that were the result of the limitations of the system. They weren't challenging problems - just busy work.

When I got my first Linux system up and running, I felt like I was finally free of all that arbitrary crap. I don't miss it.

Oh please - not the old "water powered car" hoax again...

Yes, but I just had lunch so I won't describe it.

It think you got your dates wrong. The acquisition attempt was in late 1995 or early 1996.

Thanks, but I actually meant that I don't remember what she looked like or what she did in that movie. Or nearly anything else about the movie.