That is precisely why I remembered it!

Not that I know of... I buy it if there was. There is a lot of development that could be done for a variety of niche processors using that idea.

I will never, ever buy a game console. But I would buy something like a SPARCplug or PCIe card which gave my Mac the capability play PS3 or XBox 360 Games natively.

I'd also love to see other CPUs available in this form factor to open access for development... but that's a different story.

yes... I wonder what happened with it.

You can read a little about it here: http://wiki.auroralinux.net/wiki/SPARCplug

MARTA, the public transit light rail in Atlanta uses a 3rd rail.

Everyone who is a close friend of mine has these sorts of hobbies. My closest friend has built a complete sleep lab in his home, complete with a sensory isolation tank. This is just part of an extended effort on his part to more fully understand and explore his dreaming and other alternate states of mind.

In my opinion the most interesting things going on now are in biology and that's sort of home lab I am building.

Oh come on now... The title is inflammatory and tone is combative. Unsurprisingly the discussion at guy's blog degenerates pretty quickly.

I don't really disagree with most of his central points: Secure by default isn't really useful to most people; OpenBSD needs more security features than older UNIX ones; and the OpenBSD team does themselves a huge disservice with their "not invented here" syndrome... But really the whole thing could be been written with a more professional tone and fostered a lot more constructive discussion.

My experience with Telekom Austria and UPC/iNode has not been substantially different.. and actually not all that different from AT&T/Mindspring in America. So my feeling is that this is entrenched telecoms firms and not formerly state run firms.

I'd love to get 24e (Fiber) but my property management company won't have anything to do with it.

I made you a friend ages ago for a feisty and factually accurate response to some repugnant and delusional hater (could have very well been Pudge, I don't remember). I don't particularly view the Slashdot relationship naming system as meaningful... it's just a way to sort the competent & interesting people from the clueless, the highly propagandized, or the unpleasantly extreme.

Clearly it isn't a lack of comments that slashdot suffers from.. it's separating the wheat from the chafe and the mod system is frequently not effective for this purpose. Truth be known, the relationship system is not a whole lot better.

This raises the question about email providers. Who provides good, private, secure email service? If Hushmail has handed over keys & data on request, I'd rather not pay them €50-100 per year. In truth I'm not an international criminal or James Bond or anything... so I can't really justify too much cost. But surely there is a service which does not retain data for too long and would at least ask for a court order before handing anything over... and does not assume you have the financial backing of a TLA.

actually I'm sort of surprised at all the complicated suggestions everyone has come up with. Home routers are cheap and do everything the guy wanted.

I'd like to read a serious comparison between this and jails in FreeBSD and sandboxes in Mac OS.

I think a lot of these ideas have been around for a very long time but they are such a pain in the ass, very few people actually use them.

Joseph Kittinger would agree.