IdeaStormer

Remember it is the Air Force, its not like they get sent in first or at all :D

That's why you never take a loan out for a car. Its better to buy a used beater till you can actually buy one outright or a used one outright.  Otherwise, its a bad deal because a car never improves in value no matter how special anyone says it is, sure you might get what you paid for it but no one ever takes into account what they spent to keep it up in the calculation, oil, gas, repairs, license fee's, insurance, its a money pit! Then you drive it till it dies, or I do, recycle the parts or sell the carcass  then start again.

Well I'm sure monlist exists partially for some programmers use but might also be there because someone told him to put it there. The feature request by non-IT people with power can also add to this mess, but since they are signing the check it gets added. So I wouldn't blame the programmer for it all.
 
There are many secret features/functions out on the interwebs that are there for a good reason and an equal amount for a bad reason. Custom apps out in the wild are high in number, custom as in not documented and for one person's use or one company to make their task "easy", not to mention backdoor security in the name of being able to recover something a customer screwed themselves out of due to bad user documentation (passwd db).
 
Documentation really.

I don't quite see the gain in your new betterRAID, or are you going to sacrifice drive count/usage for better "chances" of not losing your data? Would be a worthy research study but something tells me its been done but can't find it at the moment.
 
Have you looked at this? http://www.drobo.com/how-it-works/beyond-raid/ 
Yet another RAID type, I think it offers flexibility for consumers or an option. I have only used the first gen of their product and can say its slow as butt but does work (for others). We used it for a special type of backup and wrote tens of gigs every night, in one year we killed all four drives and replaced them of course but used consumer level drives. Maybe with enterprise level drives it would of faired better, they have more enterprise solutions now as well.

I didn't even get a notice you replied... busted.

They work sure, but you can't get to them very easily, so we never now when a new one is up till you either list the whole list via this link which is not listed anywhere or a button anywhere on the site: http://linustechtips.com/main/blogs/
Yes, we can click each and every users profile and see if they have a blog entry.
So if by not fully implemented you mean works, I guess so.