Here's a good argument-starting question: which is faster and/orbetter, hardware RAID or software RAID?

A lot of conventional wisdom says hardware RAID, but I mostly disagree.Let's ask the inverse question: how (or when) can hardware RAID befaster than software RAID?

If you're doing RAID-5, the hardware could do XOR faster than your CPUcan. But in modern systems XOR performance is pretty much constrainedby the memory bandwidth, not CPU power. It

Via Slashdot comes a report of a new biometric airport security system for detecting'hostile intent' (their term). According to the Wall Street Journalarticle:

In the latest Israeli trial, the system caught 85% of the role-actingterrorists, meaning that 15% got through, and incorrectly identified8% of innocent travelers as potential threats, according to corporatemarketing materials.

The company's goal is to prove it can catch at least 90% of potentialsaboteurs -- a 10

Dear Linux distributions: if I want to use a freaky super-intelligenteditor I am perfectly able to fire up emacs myself, or even type ' vim 'instead of ' vi ' (honest, the extra letter is not too much for me totype). I want vi . You know, the simple and predictable thing thatsystem administrators like because it behaves.

As an aid to your planning, here is a minimum feature for any editorcalled vi :

When I paste things into an alleged vi in insert