"Eventually Consistent - Building reliable distributed systems at a worldwide scale demands trade-offs between consistency and availability."

"It's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously, don't you think? After all, the web is a big place now." (saving for my usual web archeology reasons...)

"PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps you find those programs that are misbehaving while your computer is idle."

Pretty much a run down of "what everyone is doing in this decade (2000)" to tackle web scale issues.

That's some cool hacking.

iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on. It requires Python ≥ 2.5 and a Linux kernel ≥ 2.6.20.

Display mounted Volumes in the dock.. where it seems like they naturally belong.

"The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces."