I use a few of these in different place. It won't get you to the 10 watt range of the reflashed routers, but you save much time in wrestling fringe distributions in to working the way you want them to. (I have wrtsl54gs boxes running OpenWRT too, Atoms are more convenient.)

Do replace the motherboard fan if you get the intel motherboard. It will probably fail soon and cause your CPU to start thermal throttling. I just took it off and placed a full sized fan on the case vents over the motherboard blowing down. It runs cooler, quieter, and longer.

Yeah, and if you've got repeating motion, you can sort of patch together a 4D image (3D over time). Alex's atlas is actually 4D, although the different timepoints were necessarily from different specimens. (And obviously not isotropic on time -- to get a true 4D isotropic dataset, our 19.5 micron/voxel spatial resolution would demand 65-femtosecond temporal resolution, which is (a) physically impossible and (b) of no use to an anatomist.)

I haven't noticed this being an issue since switchmode power supplies being used inside plugpaks. The older ones that housed 50Hz transformers were a problem for this, and sucked at regulation too.

What makes you think the developers don't care at all about perception of their work?

A leaked build can be one of the daily builds. As such, it can have some pretty major bugs in it, if the last few commits didn't play well together, or one was just fscked up - in fact, such a build might as well just crash on startup. When it gets leaked with that stuff, you can be sure that someone, somewhere, writes a witty blog post along the lines of, "Microsoft is nearing RC, and yet the product is full of major bugs; apparently, the release is totally rushed by management. Remember Vista?". Next day, it ends up on Slashdot front page as a story titled "New Microsoft software released with major flaws".

And then you get IM'd by a friend who sends you a link to that, and have to explain what actually happened.

So, yeah, I do care.

The power ratings listed on PSUs are the MAXIMUM they can safely draw without melting. The mac mini in practice draws nowhere near that.

How many non technical people know the difference between 64 and 32-bit CPU's? Not a whole lot, if any. For those people, it's a bit daunting when their Linux friend/son/granddaughter/whatever tells them it'd be a great choice and the first thing they see is "Which download? 32 or 64?". Just put the .ISO with both 32-bit and 64-bit with a script that tests if the CPU is 64-bit capable at boot time. Or how about those people that don't know if their Mac has Intel or PPC chipset? Same thing, script at boot time to determine. If it's just two architectures the overhead could be well worth it.

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See, I'd prefer that the other way around - simple at first, then more and more complicated as you play it more and get deeper into it.

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Another comment on the situation that's well worth reading:

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_07_17.html#017446

Most likely it's just Fox making some noise to try to get the cast to sign on without having to pay them more money than absolutely necessary, and if they were at all serious about replacing anyone they'd be doing it very quietly behind the scenes instead of making public announcements.

Read the article linked to in this comment above. While it's by no means conclusive evidence, it is does suggest there may be some kind of connection worth investigating.

Simple solution to that: get a crap-spec PC, stick a fax/modem card in it, and set it up as a fax server. We've got an old Windows box that just prints incoming faxes to PDF and dumps them on a network drive - was dead simple to set up.

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

5 - The only view I ever want to use in Explorer is Details. So like every other version of Windows, the first thing I did was to set the view to Details for a folder, go into the Folder Options, and tell Windows not to use unique views for each folder. Despite doing this many times, Vista will still randomly pick other views that it thinks are better (even though they're worse) for some folders some of the time. It also refuses to remember the sort order I choose for my Documents folder, and every time I go into it, it's sorted by Type, not Name.

Oh dear god yes. This has got to be my #1 annoyance with Vista.

the other guy suggested the U: drive which seems intuitive if it's USB. Or maybe R: for removable media?

I usually use B: these days. Since USB drives have pretty much taken over from floppies, it makes sense to have them take over their drive letters as well.