It's simple: just don't offer any sort of comment preview option.

This insures that I will never leave a comment, no matter how much Ihave something I want to say. Without the chance to preview my workbefore I'm committed to it, I feel too nervous and it becomes too muchof an annoyance.

This is one of those blog software things that really puzzle me. It isnot as if blogs all format comments in the same way, so I would thinkthat software

I've recently spent some time thinking about virtualization technology,in particular how I feel about Xen versus VMware. In theory the choiceshould be a slamdunk for me, because VMware requires evil binary kernelmodules and I have usually avoided that sort of thing even when it wassomewhat painful (eg, I don't use ATI's binary X drivers). In practice,though, I am only distantly lukewarm on Xen and much more interested inVMware.

The simple summary why this is is that Xen is

Presented in illustrated form, on at least Solaris 8, FreeBSD, andOpenBSD:

$ exec 9>/dev/null$ exec 10>/dev/nullexec: 10: not found

(And the shell exits.)

The genuine Bourne shell only allows redirection to (or from)single-digit file descriptors; if you give multiple digits, itinstead gets parsed as ' exec 10 >/dev/null '.

(The limitation has been faithfully copied by at least some Bourne shell