So, it won't be the Peach Bowl anymore? It'll be the Mango Bowl soon? Or maybe Malaria Bowl brought to you by Canada Dry Tonic.

I’ve used it to save me time looking up stuff I don’t do often anymore. I converted some shell or perl to python. (It was pretty good actually.) I also save time asking how to delete blank lines or something weird in awk/sed that I don’t recall without googling.

Mostly iMessage right now. Work is pushing Teams on us in an annoying way. I’ve avoided putting it on my phone but...

That's not really a lot of money in federal terms. Heck, that's less than a couple modern jet fighters. Plus, it's only in Utah. No other senator or representative will care since it's not in the district.

I could have sworn in between the case mod stories there were stories of overclocking to reach 1Ghz using assorted cooling techniques.

Get off my lawn!!

Yes and originally you could just post with your chosen nickname with the registration hassle. That led to a few obvious problem when people started impersonating people or trolling with MEEPT! and such. I think I waited on the order of weeks to sign up.

As good a reason as any. I forgot how much people hated his posts.

Yes, quite likely. It's nice to come back to someplace where we all spent so much time contributing in big and little ways. Many of us are a bit older and rounder than when /. started but the ride has been fun. I still remember grabbing a tshirt from Rob at some Linux conference in the San Jose Convention center. It was in the 1990s I'm sure because I still have Alpha Linux swag as well. Thanks CmdrTaco for the fun times.

I don't really miss the juvenile flames and obligatory nitpicks but I do recall fondly some of the lamer aspects: hot grits, Natalie Portman, MEEPT, first post, endless discussion of whether Jackson would ruin the LOTR movies, "I hate JarJar", whining about poll choices, vi vs emacs, etc. Maybe I'll look to see if there's a BSD fan around here and start a flame war for old time's sake.

Of course this is the case. This study is as exciting as news that George Michael is gay. There have been plenty of studies to this effect. My company makes tons of money consulting on better storage utilization. [Some Fortune 500 companies I've visited run below 40% utilization.] EMC, IBM, HDS, NetApp and the rest have no real interest in selling you less drives. They all make vague, glossy statements about saving storage money but in reality you need to be wasteful if you want to protect your ass. Think of the things we spend $ on just to get another 9 on the uptime digits: UPS, generators, clustering, DR systems/networks that sit idle, dark fibre between datacenters, RAID 1(+0), RAID 6, tapes, VTLs, Storage Arrays, redundant Fibre Channel SANs, . . .

From a human perspective, fuzzyfungus is right. Over-engineering is less likely to cost your job than failure. Plus, over-engineering is easy to justify.

Some things are just known to cost money if you MUST ensure that business is not subject to fallibility in hw and sw. The fact that there are 50 TBs unused out of your 200 TB of usable storage really might not mean too much. [Some of the numbers quoted could point to the mirrored side of RAID 1 stripes as wasted. It's a cheap gimmick to make the numbers look worse but still true to a certain extent if the performance difference between R5 and R1 is not needed.] Of course, there are usually low hanging fruit that can be attacked to save real money and prevent cascading costs on the other cost centers mentioned above but there will always be waste. It's the cost of five 9's.

"Mail Order Monsters" would be nice please. Much better than UFC or WWE.