But I picked Airplane, because today I'm commuting to KDCA metro area. I actually commute to Washington DC roughly 10-15 times a year (for the day). Fly there in the morning, and fly home in the afternoon/evening. I've even flown there two days in a row, because the airfare is cheaper than a hotel stay. If the hotel is priced $250/night and airfare $170, I'd much rather sleep in my own bed, and it saves the company money. Next week I'm commuting to Chicago for the day.

I dine out at a local eatery and they give change in 50c and $2 bills as appropriate based on your order. I tend to re-use the bills at other local places, and usually get some combination of NOOP and Cool! I've never had any issues, but also don't tend to hand them to someone who may die due to drooling on themselves.

I agree on the USB, the wife got a 16GB USB device for ~$8 back in November iirc. Reusable and I could likely put multiple bootable installs on it w/ grub (eg: freebsd, linux, xp) with a few service packs too (eg: XP SP3.. dear god, I upgraded a family member laptop this christmas from XP [not even SP1] -> SP3).

I'd also like the ability to (without building a custom kernel) use com2 as my console, but I can't have everything I want.. sigh. Time to hack more code i guess.

This is one of the better parts of this release. The lack of speed/clue on putting out both CD sized and DVD iso images has been highly frustrating, telling the users to basically "roll-their-own". I've already upgraded a few systems and things appear to be going well.

If the facility had the roof blown off due to the 60mph+ winds we had, and caused a safety hazard due to exposed wiring, etc.. I certainly can see a case, but this is all conjecture. Unless you (and I don't) have facts to support your postulation, we can go on feeding the echo chamber more and more!

WPS and GETS did not work from my cellular phone during this time. This was quite a severe outage, and caused 'No Service' for a very wide area locally as well. I did not determine if it was due to the tower being without power though, most sites have 8-12 hours of standby power at most.

The problem I have is that these programmers translate to routing equipment that I use eg: Juniper and Cisco platforms where the memory and cpu continue to be at a premium. While they develop on the latest c2d cpus, the devices that make up the core of the internet actually are more like SR71000 CPU at 600Mhz with 1GB of ram, or a 2ghz pentium mobile processor, or even 300Mhz MPC 755 processors.

While most people don't consider these an embeded platform, the constraints that exist here have real impacts as there's not always protected memory (cisco). You would be sad to see what they charge for memory and flash cards.