davideckels commented on Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2008 Election Results Early

"[Journal entry for 2008-02-28] Stuck toe in comment waters."

davideckels commented on Set Up Real-Time, Bulletproof Backup Drive Redundancy with RAID

"*Thoughts* If you can genuinely say you *need* backup, then spring the reasonable money for a card with a hardware RAID chip, three drives to make a RAID5, AND removable backup media."

davideckels commented on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Released

"@bnosach - I'm always a little hesitant to compare terms like "faster" and "cooler", but my own experience is that a fresh installation of Windows XP is similarly quick to a fresh installation of Ubuntu (or OpenSuSE), but after adding antivirus, antispyware, and whatever windows programs are necessary to make my peripherals work, either Ubuntu or OpenSuSE will run measurably faster while consuming similar resources."

davideckels commented on 21-Green-Gadget Salute to Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

"Honestly - isn't this supposed to be about the shiny goodness, and not about the mad-religious-war-inspired-competition between the left and the right? I say some of those gadgets look neat. I say I'm not sold on a peace prize for that paricular work since it is vastly multi-sourced and non-corrective, and also because it appears to be a work of science and not a work of humanitarianism or actual peace-producing process. I say let's leave politics to other forums, and hope they don't start reveiwing gadgets."

davideckels commented on Do you text and drive?

" Text and drive?"