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You can use Logical Volume Management (LVM) aside from Redundant Array of Independent Disks configuration 0 (RAID0). I actually think that using RAID 0+1 gives better throughput and reliability... The short answer to your last question is NO. Hard disk space is totally not connected to the performance of a PC. The speed, cache size, and many other factors are.

No offense but I think your post is very funny. First of all, there is NO single server that "contains" or controls the Internet. The Internet is just like any other network. However, it is special in the sense that it is the network of all networks which means that all the networks (publicly accessible) around the globe actually constitutes the Internet. And.. it is virtually impossible to take down the whole Internet because doing that means that you have to take down: 1. each and every node connected to the Internet 2. each and every wide-area network connected to the Internet which implies that 3. you take down each and every local-area network that constitutes the WANs. Simply think of destroying the Internet like destroying the Earth. Cyberspace is actually "vast", just like real space is. HTTP, SMTP, Gopher, etc. are protocols right? It means that these protocols are simply "rules of communication" over networks, PCs, and even intra-PC communication. The point is... Killing the Internet is not like killing protocols like HTTP, etc. You have to bring down the servers like web servers, FTP servers, etc. I would just like to point out these things... No offense. I think inducing an electromagnetic field so strong that it screws up the circuitry of electronic devices by inducing charges would be a better solution.

You don't actually need a proxy server for simple things such as sharing the Internet connection. This can be done via Network Address Translation, and for users who simply don't want to get dirty with iptables, Firestarter is for them. In a nutshell, Firestarter is a simple firewall with a comprehensive but clean user-interface. Link: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Oooh... Ooozing amounts of RAM... 8 GB of RAM simply makes my mouth water. By the way, how much does a 1 TB HDD cost nowadays? I think I want that too. I just want to ask a question... How did you come up with 10 GHz? I mean yeah, you have a quadcore PowerMac G5... But according to Apple's website, the highest clock rate so far is 3.0 GHz only... Just asking... No offense...

If your network is not that big (when I say big, I mean big like several hundred or thousands of hosts), you may do away with DHCP and just assign static IP addresses throughout your network. Basically, you disable DHCP and correctly configure each host with the correct IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway. However, if you're not really comfortable doing these things then just let DHCP do its thing.

I recommend Seagate. My more-than-5-year-old computer's hard disk is a Seagate and up to now, it still works perfectly fine. Another plus factor of choosing Seagate above others is that Seagate hard drives have a reputation of being very reliable in the sense that they last for at least 5 years. Maybe that justifies the 5-year warranty that Seagate hard drives ship with.

I can't seem to understand what you just said. An operating system typically consists of a kernel + a lot of applications & libraries. Windows will never have a live CD because of the nature of its license. Also, the Windows kernel doesn't have the GREATNESS of Linux in the sense that almost all hardware doesn't work with Windows out-of-the-box. Is it as "feature-packed" (you know what I mean) as Linux Live CD's? Because as far as I know, Windows' hardware support (I am talking about Windows-only stuff without 3rd-party drivers) is awful.

Honestly, I cannot remember the time when I last got a BSOD. Since I started using Linux, from Kubuntu, to Ubuntu, back to Kubuntu, to openSUSE, then to Arch, I spent less and less time with Windows. I actually only boot Windows when I need to transfer files from my ext3 partitions to my NTFS partitions (I don't use ntfs-3g because of very obvious reliability issues).However, I have one 'funny' experience with Windows XP SP2. I was really surpised that I've made XP unusable by deleting a certain file. I was really shocked that when I try to login after a reboot, the system just hangs after pressing the keyboard. Yes, I was really disappointed that a 3rd-party software driver (Logitech PS2 Keyboard Filter Driver) caused this. The thing is, once the Windows GUI crashes, the whole system crashes. But what the heck, the whole system halts when trying to load a system file that was already deleted.