chances are most people on this site prefer linux as well.

kinda speaks to how committed they are to this division, don't you think? persistence is a good think, imo.

actually craig mundie is the chief software architect. but you are correct, billg is still chairman of the board of directors.

on windows 7 you don't need to do any of that

i got one of those 1.5 tb drives for what i thought was non-essential server. the thing is not backed up and we were using it to complement some other servers. well it turns out now that people have started to stick things on it that have since become essential and i am now starting to get pretty worried about it. time to buy a decent array i guess :|

what is happening with seagate? did they downsize their qa staff or something?

part of my job is buying machines for developers on my team, and the standard dev machine that i have been getting is a quad core with 8 gb of ram. try as i might to dissuade them, some people still insist on whacking the box and putting a 32 bit os on these machines.

how about a non-microsoft silverlight player then? http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight