@ataraxia_status SSDs would be far too small for this use case; they need the 2TB monsters. Still, they could have easily built RAID10

RAID 0 SATA with 2 Drives: It’s Web Scale! http://goo.gl/DjoGS

every time I look at a 9 volt battery, I try to remember what they taste like

w/r/t to previous tweet, we spent MONTHS on that. Literally.. months. All because of bad NIC hardware / drivers.

public service windows sysadmin announcement: do not use Broadcom nics. Ever. #pain http://goo.gl/XyJg0

new Q&A site launched for contractors and serious DIYers http://diy.stackexchange.com/

is it possible for us to create a top level domain? (like .com or .org) http://serverfault.com/q/243316/1

"Awesome! I've been waiting for this day ever since I started working here!" http://t.co/AXSMIPK

If I were CEO of Proptronics, I'd do a big Apple-style keynote to announce this year's lineup of fake gadgets. I'd let Giz ...

Insanely high dpi on mobile (iPhone 4) has broken me. Anything less is visibly crap.

This Steam $13 weekend deal is bananas: at least 3 of these games are excellent, plus: FAR CRY 2! http://goo.gl/HjaD7

Meaningful Play. Getting "Gamification" Right. http://goo.gl/qMyps note slides 33 and 141

reality distortion field is a helluva drug http://goo.gl/t5RKc

Henry Africa, inventor of the fern bar passes away in San Francisco (don't laugh; it was a huge 1970s innovation): http://bi ...

the Strida folding bike arrived, it's really cool! @rockhardawesome tested it out for me http://i.imgur.com/lLTCk.jpg

How can I read a reel-to-reel tape from the 1970s? http://superuser.com/q/252393/1

Nintendo: We Are F***ed. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/resist-the-pull-of-smartphones-nintendo-president-urges-developers/

Awesome! Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 http://t.co/x79KtSF

@howtogeek the physics behind that are kind of daunting, do the math. dual core + camera + at least as much memory as iPhone4 = more viable

I think @spolsky would make a brilliant guest for one of @leolaporte 's podcast shows, but he's too shy to ask. Let's fix this!

iPad 2 is a little disappointing, but at least the CPU and hopefully memory are closer to netbook class now.

@lakey @codinghorror Don't forget the 1,185 self-proclaimed sluts.

There are 31,000 self-proclaimed 'experts' on Twitter, 14,500 gurus, 8,500 ninjas and 3,400 pirates: http://bit.ly/hDG4DM

“It is an invariable principle of all play … that whoever plays, plays freely. Whoever must play cannot play.” http://goo.gl/yphrW

this is one of the best slide decks I've read in YEARS. So good. http://goo.gl/iQ3B4

"the overwhelming percentage of people who write fan fiction are women" http://goo.gl/jAfey

I suck at version control. and I miss subversion.

hmm. the only thing I could get to work: revert entire repo to revision X, copy files out, pull latest repo back, copy files overwrite

how do I revert all contents of a single folder to a specified point in time, in Mercurial?

new #stackoverflow and http://stackexchange.com users page design based on community feedback: http://goo.gl/idtoE

wow, I think Rock Band 3 just released the first songs with no guitar part, but every *other* instrument. http://goo.gl/Iqv2C

why shouldn't booleans be nullable? Sometimes the answer is not yes or no, but "meh". Just like real life!

Every time a software patent is registered, an angel is bludgeoned to death with a shoe.

@tosbourn hey, awesome! thanks for the article, and kudos!

Really don't know how I did web development without this site. http://placekitten.com/

Sysadmins: chat on ServerFault! http://thenubbyadmin.com/2011/02/28/a-new-place-for-sysadmin-folk-to-chat-serverfault-chat/

check it out DotNetNuke is switching to C# http://bit.ly/eyod0J

@josh_earl it's still early in the lifecycle, but follow this advice! http://goo.gl/VD4Np

omg @jzy just told me in the next version of OS X we will be able to RESIZE WINDOWS FROM ANY CORNER OR EDGE. Feel the revolution!

no, no, my birthday was months ago.. it just takes a while to compensate properly!

In honor of my 40th birthday midlife crisis, I stereotypically splurged on an extravagant vehicle http://goo.gl/P2C4O

Nothing about this map makes sense. http://bit.ly/hhQD59

Because pizza by itself would be too healthy. http://yfrog.com/h0syncjj

@dozba like I said: iPad is great for those who do no real work

nagios puts the "nag" in nagios

The Death of the File System: Killed by smart phones, tablets, Google Docs and DropBox - http://bit.ly/h0FqXY

it is a bad day to be a content farmer, but a GREAT day to be a citizen of the internet. Thanks Google. http://goo.gl/ld9Fk

hmm, noticed a Q&A category on Google; is this new? http://i.imgur.com/WK5Ji.png

I loves me some Kindle. How about one for free? http://goo.gl/xJ7Hx (via @marcprecipice)

"Ladies & gentlemen this is the Capt; if you look out window you'll see the f-ing Space Shuttle going to f-ing space." ...

I am thinking of taking the plunge and buying a sweet new iPad RIGHT NOW. The timing feels right. Headed to the Apple Store!

welcome Dori Smith our newest http://stackexchange.com Community Coordinator! http://goo.gl/LpRdc

neat! based on #stackoverflow and hn data http://www.hackerbooks.com/

what's the earliest documented use of the internet jargon "Troll"? http://english.stackexchange.com/q/14149/91

the CPU is the most energetically active thing in the known universe http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2006/02/from_slumber_to.php

A group of French old men arguing when a deadly lightsaber duel kicks in! http://goo.gl/NJSHM

We Dare, the "sexy, quirky, party game" for the Wii. OMG. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxd96qRa6wY

Google just launched a new algorithmic ranking change. Here's the blog post: http://goo.gl/J1e0a

I need a password generator that generates the classic AOL "50 free hours!" style passwords, like "earth*payment"

Just hit 10k reputation on #stackoverflow, also relocating for new job I found on #stackoverflowcareers. Best. Internet co ...

a truly revolutionary new OS concept from Apple. BEHOLD THE DESKTOP FULL OF ICONS!!!1one!@ http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/

do we love http://physics.stackexchange.com as much as @neiltyson ? I'll bet you one plush Higgs Boson we do http://goo.gl/J8kxQ

This was the inspiration for the Physics design http://goo.gl/P4qRS

now public with a snazzy new design: http://physics.stackexchange.com aka @stackphysics

Apple shows how Shadow Copy is suppose to be done http://bit.ly/ffg5Tf

We ended up getting the VW Jetta SportWagen SE -- so far so good

Traveling with baby, Britney-style. http://yfrog.com/h56aegj

@mohamedainab email careers@stackoverflow.com directly is best

"Demand Media is paying people to generate these crappy pages whereas Answers.com manages to get them for free" http://goo.gl/TPMrC

new car has Sirius satellite radio and my god it sounds absolutely horrendous. 64kbps, you'd have to be deaf to not hear the badness

@NathanBowers @kevindente 37s' way: "It works for us therefore we must shove it down your throat."

#stackoverflow careers 2.0 launches! Now with more.. MOLECULES! http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/careers-2-0-launches/

Why is it difficult to catch "Anonymous" (group)? http://security.stackexchange.com/q/2231/56

Every time someone writes `condition ? true : false`, a unicorn loses its horn.

I don't recall seeing nature videos like this in school. Maybe that's a good thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

just tried to trade in my old car towards a new car; the dealer might as well have written "f**k you" instead of his actual offer

@loydcase just cause 3 is gonna be epic. Oh PLEASE don't screw this up.. pleasepleaseplease

I can't stop laughing RT @jzy: Scariest video I've seen recently. It's Not Jackie Chan. http://bit.ly/ebTkh8

Mining Stack Overflow to find out the most popular web frameworks: http://bit.ly/eGLhyW

Are Some Questions Too Simple? http://goo.gl/rYEZs

the court of King Apple is an opulent and beautiful thing. I never said it wasn't. But know your place.

I've said forever that Apple is a fundamentally developer hostile company; Apple developers serve at the pleasure of the king.

"be glad modern graphic softwares aren't like Kai's Power Crazy UIs"

"go the other way… towards the web." That's what you should be doing anyway, dummies. http://goo.gl/hrdgH

Admitting you were wrong can feel cathartic. Well, when other people do it, I mean.

Z̄ͥ̈͌ͨͯͣ͜a͗̚lg̔̄ͩo̴͗͊̄ ̅̃ͭͧ̉̚͟Jü̡s̿ͮ̄̇t͆͛̓̈́͑͠ ͐̈ͮͯ̌V̧̔̿͂iͦ̐́s̅̃ͪ̆̒͠i͟tͮͣͧ̄̊ͦ͡e̍̉d͌̄̐ http://www.eeemo.net

Just enjoyed listening to @danbenjamin interview Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) on 5by5's The Pipeline. http://t.co/L4qMAru

love the top comment on this Hacker News article - that is *exactly* why I built it that way http://goo.gl/f5Qg0

trying to convince @betsyphd to get over her minivan aversion for the Mazda5 micro-minivan http://goo.gl/aQ31j

"[Stack Overflow is] by far the most professionally useful site on the Internet." http://goo.gl/4XQLa

Please review my crappy code: calculating entropy of a string http://t.co/zQvSSNo

Google may kill Chrome's URL bar: http://flpbd.it/QXIB

RT @davehull: Mature CIRTs gather intel on their attackers. What sources & methods are used for this? <- added ? to S ...

ack! beware replying to random Facebook messages! http://goo.gl/l9rT9

it's fascinating how little a highly damaged camera lens affects the resulting images http://goo.gl/kpJ8a

clarification to previous tweet: I mean in what year would an average highly paid white collar worker salary be 1 million/year

question: at a normal rate of inflation, in what year does the average highly-paid white collar worker become a millionaire?

mr. @rockhardawesome just came up behind me and bit me in the ass. literally. #toddlers

the reason I didn't test Firefox 4 is that they have yet to produce a single release candidate.. wake me up when that happens!

ah, the V8 benchmark: http://goo.gl/dsxf I get Chrome 10 beta - 11k / IE9 RC - 3.4k / FF3.6 - 837