Applications limited to 2GB of RAM forever? No thanks.

WTH are you talking about?! 2^32 = 4,294,967,296

Half of it is reserved for the kernel and the other half is reserved for user applications.

Both are limited to 2 GiB on 32-bit Windows.

I bet 90% of them have just changed the default route back anyway.

The Grandparent does not talk about changing the default route, but about forcing all trafic, including local traffic which does not use the default route, through the VPN. The VPN client forces this at lower level than IP.

Yes I, this is evil. A better solution is to use Remote Desktop Service through SSL or similar. This way the local webbrowser at home never connect to the business netwerk. However the exploit is stil posible if you use your laptop at home and at work. (Or visit the unsafe websites with your work computer.

Why not call it the permanent disk ... ?

Another, less commonly, used word in English is fixed disk, meaning non removeable, or permanent, disk.

My desktop is completely empty. All icons are removed by disabling the show desktop icons option in the desktop context menu. I believe putting icons on the desktop is useless when you have many windows open on top of it. Sure you can use the show desktop command, but after opening a new window using this command again does not restore the other windows.

I use folders in my email program for keeping track of things to do.