Indeed - from experience an average computer with standard GPU will do between 2 and 20 Mhash/s (not all GPUs will be usable, and most computers around with usable GPUs will have low-end ones). The best GPU's will make a whooping 600 to 900 Mhash/s, and even with that it'll be pretty hard to compete against the ASIC rigs - there's already devices making 60 Ghash/s (60,000 Mhash/s), and the upcoming rigs will do up to 1,500 Ghash/s (that's 1,500,000 Mhash/s!). In a few months the network difficulty will be so high even the best GPU's won't earn anything from mining....

They might make a little bit of cash now if they can infect a lot of computers, but it won't last for long...

One thing that would be awesome is a 64bit coLinux port!

coLinux is a win32 application with drivers that lets you run a Linux kernel with userspace natively in Windows - it is much lighter than any virtualisation option out there, and using Xming you can easily run GUI apps that launch and run just as well as if they were natively ported to windows.

Unfortunately the drivers were never ported to 64-bit, and thus is it now useless on all but the oldest computers out there. A 64-bit coLinux port would be a requirement to getting this awesome project back on its rails.

See:
http://www.colinux.org/
http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Dashboard_for_developing_a_64_bit_coLinux

And also andLinux - which offered an easy way to install and configure coLinux - think of it like coLinux being the Linux kernel and andLinux the Linux distribution...
http://www.andlinux.org/

I would love to be able to use coLinux again on my work PC, which (unfortunately) has to run Windows.

Right. I answered "Post-it Notes", but I didn't count emails. I do exactly the same, and also at the end of the day I take a picture of whatever urgent is left on my post-it's and email myself. Obviously after making sure the image is readable I leave the email unread ;)

I did pretty much that to install a linux distro on a 486 laptop - I compiled the kernel, libraries, etc. - then built a bootdisk and filesystem. I then went on and copied the ~15m filesystem using a bunch of floppies (no network) one disk at a time after booting from the floppy, and finally installed the bootloader.

The Linux From Scratch HOWTO has all instructions for it, although in my case I diverted a little bit from it - for instance I used uClibc instead of Glibc and a 2.2 kernel. Doing it from scratch gives you the best way to select more recent components for some parts while using smaller/older ones elsewhere, so you don't end up with a totally outdated system.

It wouldn't be if they actually had invented the CDN. They's unfortunately about 12 years late...

Actually the problem isn't with browsers, but rather some Web servers that see a difference between "example.com" and "example.com." IIS is one of them, which makes the "issue" quite visible.

Only because they've been so idiot to run the kiosk as an administrator!

With its default permissions, HKLM cannot be altered by normal users, and I don't see why a kiosk would need any additional privileges.

This is a very generic model; do you have any idea who manufactured the board inside? It appears most other WinCE laptops out here are based on that exact same board - the shell/color differs but the ports are placed exactly at the same place!

If one of them runs Linux that would likely be a good starting point, then you need to figure out a way to write the flash memory.

Yes, actually the CRTC imposed Bell to apply this to its own customer first. The way I understand it:

A. Bell customers:

Customer uses much bandwidth. Bell pays for internet bandwidth and gets paid by customer.

B. Wholesale service:

Customer uses much bandwidth. ISP pays for internet bandwidth AND pays Bell for usage, then ISP gets paid by customer.

Despite the fact that *everyone else* involved in the process were against this, the CRTC agreed mostly because it was claimed there's the same practices in Cable wholesale. The difference, though, is that DSL is dedicated access, and once the infrastructure is paid for (trough the base fee) there is nearly no costs to additional bandwidth besides the Internet bandwidth which is already paid by the ISP. Cable, on the other hand, is a shared medium with limited bandwidth, and the more customers use ut, the more has to be spent on upgrading the infrastructure to prevent congestion on the cable segments.

This scheme will hurt small ISPs which will have to impose limits, while it will allow Bell to make more profits and possibly cut its own prices at the same time.