Actually, even two wheels has not been successfully accomplished yet. Though, to be fair, zero wheels has been done.

The entire thing is actually a reflection of the public's apathy. The real issue is now that the spying has been brought to the forefront of attention, the time has come for society to decide which fork in the road Western society will take: the ever-present surveillance route or the privacy-respecting route. The government agencies, and at their bidding the established media, are taking the stance that spying is the new norm. Twitter and Slashdot readers think that privacy should be the new norm. Arguably, neither have been a 'norm' until now.

Google already knew which emails you have or haven't read. So does every other email client, web-based or IMAP / POP3.

I second this. I've moved people from Windows to Kubuntu telling them that it is Windows [7|8|9] and they love it. Just don't tell them what it is called.

Tips: Firefox instead of Rekonq, Lancelot instead of the default KDE menu, remove all desktop widgets and 'lock' the desktop and panel.

And make no mistake: it will be elimination. Elimination of your software from many clients' servers / desktops.

People like me won't run your software anymore. I cannot risk having your developers changing code running on my critical systems without so much as telling me what they change. I can usually infer the 'why', but they must tell me the 'what'. You don't mention if your customers have access to the code source or not, but in either case a concise human-formatted changelog is such a basic requirement that I am actually disturbed about an upstream provider even considering removing it.

Quote of the century.

Nice finds, but some disturbing comments on those videos. Thanks.

I would love to hear some of that material. My Gmail username is the same as my /. username if you wouldn't mind.

Thanks!

Technically one could run a webserver on a spot instance, but the availability of said server will be inversely proportional to datacenter load instead of proportional to website demand. Do you not see why that is a bad idea?

You are correct that what you propose is easy and well documented. However, that is not what the OP needs.

The OP needs lower-priced spot instances, which are intermittently available and designed exactly for this workflow. When the entire AWS datacenter has some spare capacity, these spot instances turn on for those who requested them to run (usually to crunch data that is not time-sensitive). The use and configuration of these instances is not so well documented, probably because you cannot run a webserver on them and that seems to be the focus of much AWS documentation. However, it is exactly these 'spot instances' which are in my opinion the genius of the cloud: they let the heavy, non-time-critical work (i.e. scientific computing) be done when the webservers and mailservers aren't so busy, thus flattening out the daily CPU demand curve.

The OP should start here:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-tutorials/

And end here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/tutorial-spot-adv-java.html

Got me to read the fine article. Oh, and pics :)
https://plus.google.com/photos/116317362025285673698/albums/profile

Then change banks, and tell them why.

I called Bank Leumi monthly for years about Firefox-on-Linux compatibility and they always told me that "it is in the works". I finally left the bank for another bank (Poalim) after sitting with the new bank's manager in his office with my Fedora laptop (~2009) checking that their site works on my system. When it did, I changed banks and wrote letters about why to both banks' presidents.

I resemble that comment.
  - dotancohen

If you need MonoDevelop then you are ostensibly a developer. As a developer, can you not build and install it yourself?

How are you connecting the hard drives? USB?