>>> Of all the major linux distro's only OpenSuSE still ships with Xen, redhat, centos, fedora, debian and ubuntu are all kvm only and have been for quite some time.

Redhat isn't KVM only. In fact, after I do a kernel update I often have to manually set it back to booting the non-XEN kernel because it switches to it by default.

I've been thinking for a while now that our world can no longer afford the vast and growing number of celebrities that compete for our attention and our economic output. If a cap were put on the number of celebrities, at say 15% of the number that now exist, and new ones could only be created when an existing one had died and been forgotten, then the total impact to the environment and the economy would be vastly reduced. The number of pages in the tabloids would drop by a factor of five at least, saving countless trees. The number of jet trips to film festivals and book signings would be likewise drastically chopped.

Missing Option: Eaten by Wolves.

I had to read almost half of it to realize who they were. It proves I haven't re-watched the show in far too long.

That explains why every week on Gunsmoke for 20 or so years I was sure I heard a shot BEFORE Dillon completed his draw and fired in the opening sequence, and yet the other guy went down every time!

I don't think your incident relates to the claims which prompted the recall. The claims were that the cars would jump into gear by themselves and go to full throttle while stopped, or making a low speed maneuver, like parking. Driver error was the only explanation that really fit the facts.

I remember it differently.
There was nothing wrong with the cars at all, just terrible drivers. The exact same cars had no problems in Europe, only in the U.S.
If fact, my recollection of this Audi incident and how it turned out the cars were not to blame at all makes me wonder if Toyota isn't getting the same kind of unearned image problem today.

You're right. What bugs me is when I click on a link to see a movie trailer and there is an unrelated AD I'm supposed to watch before I can see the AD I just volunteered to watch. At that point I kill the whole process and forget about it.

enough said.

>>> why have more than 1 computer if you can easily virtualize extra ones when you need them?

I have some VMs the work under KVM and some that work under VirtualBox. So, I run 2 phyical Red Hat PC's with however many VM's I want spread across them. Works for me.

>>> There's actually rdesktop available on Linux.

It's good too. I converted both my work PCs to Red Hat and have my Windows XP environment running on one of them under KVM. I rdesktop to it from either Red Hat box and it works for 99% of what I need to do in Windows. If I could figure out how to get reliable USB connections with the Windows VM it would be 100%.

You are correct sir!

Excellent point!

>>> very few customers use sata for anything 'real'

You mean the Sun 7310 we just bought isn't a real enterprise storage array?

>>> At 16 bucks a piece you can't beat them with a stick.

That's mainly because they are too small to hit reliably.