People will be able to distinguish between "my computer has crashed" and "Windows has crashed" because, when Windows dies, they will be able to hot-key to the still-running BIOS OS.

That's a very nice innovation. I look forward to buying a mobo which can do this.

You forgot the punch line:

That worked out well for Jerry Yang in May 2008, didn't it?

He rejected Microsoft's $33-a-share offer for Yahoo, then both Microsoft and Google walked away from a deal and now the shares are selling for a touch over $15 each.

August 7th, 2006.

But that's my Unicomp; I have about 4 Model Ms because I know it's very important to have backups.

No, they stopped building work on their "Super Power" building in 2003 and haven't resumed since.

That plan worked as well as most things Scientology does ... it backfired on them most splendidly...

... leaving people wondering why David Miscavige was sensitive to the phrase "squeal like a pig".

10 years have passed, and Scientology is still an evil, ruthless, desperate, ineffective, incompetent. laughing stock of a cult.

If you want to run linux processes with isolation from your physical machine, install an OpenVZ enabled kernel plus the openvz packages. It nicely isolates processes running inside each container; there is minimal virtualisation overhead (so you don't need a bigger machine).

Also the container root filesystem is an ordinary directory on your host. This means you can put multiple containers into a large filesystem and they share the available space, you can backup or copy containers trivially, and you can extend or reduce the amount of space available in the root filesystem while the container is running.

The amount of storage used per instance depends on your distro size; I start each instance with a minimal set of debian packages from a template occupying about 200 megs, and install more from there.

www.openvz.org.

These Sennheiser earbuds are crappier than average. My best earbuds are 15+ year-old Panasonics, and I've also got a Denon set which is alright. The difference between the Panasonic and Sennheiser earbuds is like night and day. Only the Sennheisers come in a clamshell case which can't be unwound and rewound easily. They're a marvel of Stupid Design.

I bought a pair of Sennheiser earbuds. They were crap. Sennheiser has a good name at the high end but they're obviously as willing as anybody else to sell junk at the low end.

Many of those Sydney 2000 Olympics websites would have been just ticket sales and general advertising. Much as I lament the transient nature of websites, a lot of it is just promotional material ... to pick a name at random: black-shoes.com is a typical no-content "spam" website. It is valueless today, let alone in the future.

I've got the Unicomp model M with the integrated trackpoint. Don't bother, the trackpoint tracks too slowly to be useful (and I don't know how to accelerate the trackpoint without also accelerating my other mouse).

For a media centre PC, I use a Lite-On keyboard with integrated joystick mouse. It's much better, but the keyboard uses IR to transmit to the host and it needs line-of-sight. I'll switch to Bluetooth one of these days.