which works great, until they audit the GPS results vs. your odometer reading.

we got fat and lazy. Literally and figuratively.

4GB Flash drive: http://www.google.com/products?q=4gb+flash+drive&oe=utf-8&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US315&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=39MSStyRDpThtge29JCSBA&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

about $10

Single blank DVD: http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=GOOGLEBASE&wild=GML1415945804

$0.50

Um?

with their image search. Where is the outrage there, like Facebook others have mentioned?

Don't get me wrong, I hated the diggbar, and havent been to digg since they implemented it.

If they're willing to not pay attention to the RFC, then I'd bet they are also willing to spam the shit out of me. I.e.: I won't do business with them, then.

um, what about using it on machines that I don't have admin access on?

Machines I may not want another file system driver on?

Library machines, corp machines, etc.?

because I don't want to pay $456,784 for a lightbulb :)

I disagree. If that were the case, why aren't our cities, metropolitan areas, and hell - whole regions like New England (which is as dense as any in Europe) wired better?

um, thats a GOOD THING? Then, maybe someone can hit these guys with a clue bat, and get their infected machines taken care of?

A) you admitted to watching Knight Rider. Please hand in your geek card over there ---> :)

B) thats a TV show. What about movies? Granted, even at 3GB, I don't watch 33 movies a month, but between that, torrents, regular usage, VOIP, large emails, etc etc, I'm slightly worried.

Having said that, I have no real clue what I use now. I'll load up DD-WRT and get a clue. Thanks to everyone that dropped some help.

every Netflix on-demand video is about 4-6GB.

I have Charter (no choice, its the only broadband, including DSL, available to me). Does anyone know of a way I can monitor my usage, to make sure I don't go over the cap? You KNOW Charter isn't going to give me the tools to do that myself...

Can Tomato or any other linksys alternatives do this?

100GB, jesus that sucks.

...just do the cutover, get it over with. Sure, a short term pain, but I'm sick of hearing about it.

Really. Just do it already.

Have you ever tried managing 17,000 desktops? No, didn't think so.

Most large corps run WSUS, with updates on a weekly schedule, at most. To do otherwise would cripple the network, or require such an investment in equipment and manpower as to be nearly impossible to pull off.

Having said that, most large companies also have a mechanism for quick-release of highly critical patches. I know we rolled out the MS08-067 patch to our desktops immediately, and had a 98% acceptance rate within 3 days.