Not question deletion, which works this way, for the record. The deletion I want to talk about today is account deletion.
Stack Overflow is a bit unusual in that our accounts are ultra lightweight. We don’t require registration; we allow essentially anonymous posting. We were inspired by Wikipedia in this regard. We wanted to reduce the friction of asking and answering to little more than entering an anonymous comment on a blog. For example, we often don’t even have an email address for our users. And we’re fine with that. I can’t think of very many sites with as loose a definition of account as Stack Overflow. …
might have changed since then of course, but that's the first source I've found
I want to build a workstation/server for myself. I want to run Windows 7 as my host OS, then run either FreeNAS or Windows Home Server 2011 in a VM that will start up automatically. I want to RAID 10 4 hard drives, for speed and redundancy
I want to know if 8GB of RAM and an i5-2500 Processor would be fine for running both OS's consistantly, and if I should give the VM direct disk access to make the RAID, or make the RAID in Windows
@Luke I's say yes to all questions, as long as you are not doing any ludicrously RAM intensive tasks on the desktop host. However, that is something I would never even consider doing. You are so much better off by getting a second machine to use as a server.
My main reason is that I don't have much physical power in my trailer. It would be my programming machine, the MC recorder (I can't watch Cable TV otherwise on my TV), my RSync Server, my VPN server... And an unofficial Time Machine server for my MBP
