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Is there a catch? In theory I like it, but are the users now becoming the product?

Fedora for my desktop. It's cutting edge and has sane package naming. I've also been using RPM based distros since the origin RedHat 4.

CentOS on servers. Rock solid, long support.

I had an Ubuntu phase when it was first released. Even helped 2 companies standardize on it while moving developers off windows machines to Linux. But ditched it for personal use when Fedora 7 came out.

The only other distro that interests me is Arch. It's definitely the tweakers distro, and if I were younger and had more time to tinker with Linux I'd run it on my desktop.

I guess the main reason why is familiarity - 17 years with RPM based distros.

This article caught my interest as I've been reading into Cassandra. But some previous research had me thinking that Cassandra works best with under a TB/node. Is SQL still better when you have really large nodes (16-32TB) and only really want to scale out for more storage?

I'm currently humming along happily with Postgres, but some of the distributed features, and availability of Cassandra look really nice.

I first started at a small web shop that was quite flexible. There were a few of us who more and more starting working at home, but came to the office the same 1 or 2 days each week, to work face to face and go to lunch...

Fast forward a few years, and knowing that I could work effectively as a remote worker.

I co-founded a small company with a guy in a larger city. We ended up setting up an office in that larger city, but I never moved. Travel as needed, but it wasn't that much. Then got acquired. The acquiring company has kept me on contract since then, as a remote worker.

So, is there a market for a hosted email solution with a killer web ui that is not hosted in the US? How about Canada? Just wondering if there is an opportunity here for a non-US startup.

How's the Rackspace web UI?

Oops, just noticed that not all accounts need to be the same capacity. That saves a few dollars.

Are most of you happy with Fastmail's pricing? I'd really like to switch away from Google apps for my families email needs, but would much rather pay $X for a domain and diskspace, and then create accounts as needed.

The family plan seems overpriced as well, as I'm the only one who needs large disk space, the other 3 accounts don't need so much.

My approach may be silly. But 2 guys who know way more about SSL than me, Ivan Ristic (SSLLabs, Qualys) and Moxie Marlinspike appear to use StartCom and Gandi.

But also see cowchases message - I'd probably use NameCheap myself if after a wild card certificate, but for the free certificates at StartCom have served me well.

I've found myself in a rather unique position contracting/consulting for a single customer. Basically I charge $8333.33/month whether I work or not. Some months there are only a few days, and others I'm quite busy.

While I could probably juggle other things on the side, I take the extra time to spend with my kids. But as they will both be in school next year I'm thinking of upping my game a little.

Basically I specialize, networking monitoring type apps.. When things on the wire needed to be decoded and made sense of. I've always wondered if there is much out there contracting for that (protocol analysis, etc).