In theory, this can do an hour's worth of work in one second. That is a lot of horsepower. Glad I'm not paying the power bill.

Quoted: • 4000 nodes
• 2 quad core Xeons @ 2.5ghz per node
• 4x1TB SATA disks per node
• 8G RAM per node
• 1 gigabit ethernet on each node
• 40 nodes per rack
• 4 gigabit ethernet uplinks from each rack to the core (unfortunately a misconfiguration, we usually do 8 uplinks)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
• Sun Java JDK 1.6.0_05-b13
• So that's well over 30,000 cores with nearly 16PB of raw disk!

Wow, no wonder I haven't heard Howard's name much this season.

Quoted: Nobody has ever hit 40+ home runs with a sub-.800 OPS.

Some good comments on Joel's "Smart and Get Things Done" mantra.

This is a fact! Great post.

Quoted: Before I wrap up, I’d like to point out that if the title of this post sounds suspect to you, consider it a huge red flag. If the thought of switching editors doesn’t fill you with quite a bit of dread, what you’re using now is almost certainly underpowered, and you definitely haven’t customized it enough. If this is you, take a look at one of the editors I’ve been discussing here, and take the time to learn it–I promise it’s worth the trouble. Just, uh…choose carefully.

Update to previous "fave" with broken link.

Quoted: Perfection kills. Prototype javascript framework tutorials and examples, tips and tricks on modern front-end web development

Quoted: We announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB.

Ummm, this is insane. Why not just write extensions for GNU Emacs? Yeah, I can't think of a reason either.

Quoted: We are looking for developers/testers to build a tool that I will roughly describe as "Emacs.Net".

Heh, the Bavasi hate fest continues.

Quoted: A pitcher who just a year ago was detrimental to his team is now making 12 million annually. In fairness to Silva he did allow more line drives than before in 2006, but this signing is inexcusable for me - pitchers like Ted Lilly, Javier Vazquez, and Gil Meche are making - Silva isn't nearly as good as that trio.