I'm not familiar with the sad situation you relate, but I do not believe it has anything to do with the parent comment. Also, I have noticed that at least half of the bicyclists in my area do not obey traffic laws in any form, and the rest obey them sporadically. They don't stay on their side of the road. They don't signal. They don't maintain safe distances. They cut traffic off. The list goes on. Many of the offenders are "professional" riders too. They compete at the local velodrome. They have friken sponsors. Hence, they should know better. When one of these idiots dies, and leaves behind a grieving family and friends, I feel bad for the survivors. However, any anger I have goes right to the idiot who got run over by the 18 wheeler because he did something stupid, not the poor truck driver who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and now has the face of said idiot burned into his mind for the rest of his life. Just because the bicyclist lost the fight with the truck does not mean it's not his fault.

Really, that's what makes people feel anger toward bicyclists. We all know how we would feel if we were that truck driver. The deceased problems are over. The survivors, including the driver, have to live with it. There is a lot more to weigh down on you then traffic tickets in that situation. I know that if some stupid bicyclist would run a stop sign around a blind corner and I hit and killed him, I would feel absolutely horrible for a long, long time. It doesn't matter who's fault it is. You feel horrible unless you're dead.

The article you mentioned seems to indicate the parents of that 7 year old were not at fault for the accident, but rather the driver was. That's a sad situation, and I would have fully expected the driver to face charges. Definitely a break down of justice in that case.

"I don't give a damn about their ideology or their patent concerns"

I'll just stop reading there. Thats really stupid of you.

The only asterisk/gsm related hardware I've ever found was for connecting asterisk to the gsm network (using cellular as a trunk) not connecting gsm phones to Asterisk.

I would love to have something like this that interfaces with Asterisk.

Sure, but a V8 can't touch a straight six turbo in the "looks good and hauls ass" department.

I'm sorry? Have you driven a modern V8 powered muscle car lately? Dollar for dollar a simple push-rod V8 will outperform an I6 turbo, last longer, and get comparable fuel efficiency to boot. Unlike what people seem to want to believe, these are NOT the same engines we had 50 years ago. They are far, far more efficient and powerful. That covers the 'hauls ass' part. As for the 'looks good', well, there is no accounting for taste. :)

Windows *mobile* runs on ARM cpus.

My latest edge case was running some really, really old and crusty 16bit program in a Windows XP guest and having it bluescreen. I didn't try it in Vmware. Before switching to VirtualBox I used Vmware player on these workstations, but it couldn't keep up performance wise. I use Vmware server (v2) on our two main servers here, each running 6 VM's. I had used Vmware server (v1) before that. I also bought and used a copy of Vmware Workstation when is still cost $300. Sorry, I don't see how Vmware Workstation is better then VirtualBox. I don't struggle with it at all. If VirtualBox was $189 and I could only chose that or Workstaion, I would still use VirtualBox.

If you actually bother to boot up and try VirtualBox you will find it very buggy compared to VMware...

Sorry, I have to disagree. I have many, many instances of VirtualBox running and I love it. I *have* had some issues, but only with some really far out edge cases. I find it to be very easy to use, and reliable. As a sysadmin, VBoxManage is awesome for scripting.

We use DRBD for some very mission critical servers that require total redundancy. Combined with Heartbeat I can fail over from one server to another without any single point of failure. We've been using it for more then 5 years, and never had any major issues with it. It will be great to have it in the mainline kernel.

at least till they get their hands on some jet boats

Or weed guards.

Another vote for UltraVNC single click.
For the Linux users you can so the same thing with a one line X11vnc command. I like to add it to a menu item on the Linux machines I set up for people.

I do my own taxes, and I'm neither an idiot or a liar. You, AC, are quite the asshole for suggesting that without having any facts whatsoever to back it up. I keep my tax records. There is nothing on my state-40 or associated forms about Use Tax. Nothing at all. And yet, my state's tax website tells me I have to pay it.

Like you'll even see this since you posted as a coward.

I honestly had never heard of Use Tax. A quick Google search reveals that I am a criminal.
Fan-friken-tastic...

What we really need are stronger advertising laws. Force them to simplify the advertisement so they can't give you X when they say "We'll give you X*5". If they can't provide 12Mbps, then DON'T ADVERTISE IT... and putting some stupid cop out clause in small print doesn't count. The only reason they are in this spot is they were allowed to get away with boasting about these high download speeds that they couldn't actually deliver. If they had to compete with real numbers we would all be better off, even the providers.

1.6Ghz Atom. 1Gig of ram 2Gig of flash.
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