Reminds me of my senior engineering project which we presented at a highly competitive national conference here in Canada. On the day the judges were coming around to the booths, our device suddenly stopped working. It was still connected to the computer through USB, but for some reason the analog-digital conversion was failing. Literally 10 seconds before the judges appeared in front of our booth my partner whacked the device enclosure with his fist and suddenly everything worked again. We ended up coming in 3rd :)

That's assuming of course that apple approves the duplicate app, which is highly unlikely.

That's why there's Google Gears that lets you take your documents offline. So long as you as you are using your own laptop, which in my experience is usually the case with presenters, you are fine.

Maybe if you have a lawyer who doesn't understand licensing or IP. On the other hand many companies have a good legal grasp of open source licensing and know the limitations and what is safe to integrate and what is not. I work for one such company, and much of our technology is based on open source and scientific software. You just have to know who to ask.

Exactly. Especially if it has VPN access.

The price at the new Vancouver Convention Center for a wireless 1.5/0.5 mbps conncetion with VPN is something like $120/day.

We have a full office of software developers here running on iMacs, some of which are 3 years old. All of them have a secondary external display with desktop spanning.

Thanks for informing us on your blog. However, it's a little bit too little too late. We were trying to track down the problem with our network services for a while yesterday before we clued in that it was an NS problem and had to call to verify. How about some way of directly notifying your customers immediately when there are problems like this? A low-volume notification-only mailing list? A more filtered blog? No I'm not interested in reading about "Solutions Out Loud Podcast Episode #6 - âoeThe Inaugural Ballâ Episode". Real news would just be lost in the noise...

Most of the servers we run support up to 128 GB of RAM on the motherboard. Why would I waste money putting some intermediate device that pumps data over the SATA bus when I could be spending the same money on decking out the system RAM?

No, I have automatic update install disabled. It seems there are still some really high priority upgrades that get forced through regardless.

Many software updates still require a reboot on both XP and Vista. While I can usually go a week or two without rebooting, eventually either a Microsoft patch or patch for some other software I have installed forces me to reboot. The worst thing about the Microsoft ones is that they will reboot your computer even if you say no. There's been numerous times where I've woken up in the morning only to see the message "Your system was recently restarted by Windows Update" on my desktop when I log in.

You're 100% correct. We use krb5p extensively in our organization. The issue is that integration with Linux clients and servers is not quite seamless, since most of the Kerberos stuff is backported from NFS v4, and apparently not that many people are putting effort in to it..