Wait, wait, wait a minute...who said anything about unlimited bandwidth? I don't know about you, but the only 2 competing ISPs in my area have "invisible" bandwidth limits, which can be found, but are not openly available to the customer.

Can we not just agree that the backbones need to be engineered with a tighter grid with much more bandwidth?

Bandwidth for residential users is not nearly as aggressively deployed as bandwidth for financial institutions is.

Dear AT&T,

How much for the Slashdot / Reddit / Gmail / Gaming Bandwidth package? Just planning ahead...

Hopefully they have worked out the multitude of bugs with the Wind and Netbook Remix. I have no power button in the UI, power management has a bug with the brightness function keys, no display for turbo mode, wireless adapter disabled on bootup sometimes and function key to enable it won't work, eats battery like Pac Man on a bender...

Unfortunately, I'd rather just boot to XP on my Wind for most tasks.

I feel oddly guilty now, having downloaded the Crysis demo just last night to punish my new video card.

It goes everywhere, it's small/lightweight, 3G coverage, and has great battery life.

WHS is basically just JBOD; I don't feel safe with it. When I was in the beta, they didn't explain exactly where or how files were stored, just that if you weren't using the full capacity of the array, that they were redundantly stored across drives. I like to be able to mount drives under linux to recover files if the OS crashes.

They have some funny testimonials:

Not true, 2-fiber BLSR has just as many fibers in use as a UPSR, and there is no advantage to either one. In a UPSR (let's say OC48), there are 48 STS1 channels available on both the inner and outer rings. The terminating nodes determine which side of the ring to grab a signal from. Channels can be selected from one or both sides of the ring simultaneously.

In a 2-fiber BLSR, you only have the ability to switch the entire OC48 line, but you can run "extra traffic" in the protect channels. Generally half the working channels are normally running in one direction, half the other. During a line switch, only the working channels are run along the active line. Extra traffic is squelched for the duration of the switch.

In a 4-fiber BLSR, you gain the ability to span switch between 2 nodes rather than having to switch the entire ring, but ring switching is available if both your spans between nodes fail. You can also run extra traffic on them.

The latest trend in optical networking is G.709. Most of the time different types of SONET or Ethernet payloads are encapsulated in a G.709 wrapper for transmission across the network. These are generally 1+1 unidirectionally switched.

Exactly, they would have had to known which cables were both the work and protect loops. Definitely suggests insider or former employee. It would have been extremely serendipitous for a random saboteur to have caused such an outage.

Windows 7's voice interpreter is already pretty good; imagine touch with voice. It would be awesome to bundle up my keyboard and mouse and put them away forever, but it seems a few years off still.

I'm very surprised with how complete it is on the MSI Wind U100. The only thing not working right off the bat is the built-in webcam, which I don't use anyway. Also, Nautilus isn't able to connect to my Windows shares when I simply click on them, so I'll have to figure out why. I suspect either Nautilus isn't calling smbclient right or Windows 7's CIFS has compatibility issues with smbclient.

Other than that, suspend works, wireless works, Bluetooth works...and not just works, but works easily with a couple of clicks, which is seldom true for linux distributions. I installed it from a USB flash drive: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04/beta/ubuntu-9.04-beta-netbook-remix-i386.img

I really don't like this trend, myself. Where are the repositories? Are they different than the default distro's? If I update/patch anything, is it going to break some proprietary software the netbook maker decided to make a dependency for a bunch of other stuff? I could go on and on, but I would really prefer that something like Ubuntu Netbook Remix used by all the netbook manufacturers, without a lot of hackery that kills my ability to update and install new software from the repos.