Equilibrium felt like someone decided to redo the matrix with the storyline of 1984.
And "that odd fight style" deserves no further mention.

I thought it was about "a program that starts other programs", A.K.A. cron.
I'm not sure if cron was already around in those days, though.
(like the Rowlf/TomWaits argument)

You mean to say this admin !admin account doe not work on the Telnet/HTTP/FTP network services that are enabled by default on a MSA2000?

The admin/!admin account are the documented defaults in the manual, just like monitor/!monitor.

I don't know about the G3 but, on my MSA2000 G1's, I have been able to disable the "admin" account privilege (admin/monitor/disabled) and added my own admin account with a secure password.

(Technically the G3's are a new OEM (LeftHand ), so it is possible this is locked, but I don't think so)

I'm still waiting for a decent DLNA client for my Android phone...

Take a look at the manuals on Ken Rockwell's site.
It tells you exactly what you need to know to operate your camera.

I'm typing this on a 4-year-old Dell laptop with a 17" 1900x1200 display.
It was bought with Postfix debugging in mind.

My previous laptop was also a Dell, with a 1600x1200 display.

Indeed, it does not even mention firearms.
Are you sure those are even implied?

Indeed, its freedom only applies to presses.
We'll be sending the bill for that laser printer. :-)

What makes you think everyone was able to read in those days?

And if you want to settle upon a single standard, consider something free (as in speech and beer), open (files will still work in 10 years) and multiplatform (runs on any computer), like *gasp* OpenOffice.

The computer might not even live to 4 years:

1. Apple decides when it's time to buy a new computer, not the owner.
2. you're giving it to teenagers
3. Stuff at school gets stolen.
4. Expensive stuff at school gets stolen more often.

Even the proprietary stuff relies on parts that have no guarantee that they will still be manufactured in 3 years' time.
Just ask NASA about the processors in their Shuttles.

Same here.

I pay just as much for a usenet subscription and a usenet search service as I pay for TV.
But with the Usenet option, I consume a lot less content than TV broadcasts.

I would guess that my payment for a handful of series outweighs the advertising revenue of downloading the episodes.

Just a note about those silly Cisco switches:
Servers have holes in the front and acbk to facilitate cooling. They can do this because the boards can be oriented in a way to facilitate this.

Cisco Rack enclosures have high-density blades in the front(no roon to breathe) and a sizeable backbone in the back (A wall of PCB).

Due to the hotplug nature of the blades, the backbone has to be mounted at the back (instead of using riser boards like in computers). The only other way to have it at the side is by making the server open at the side, like HP9000 computers. This means that every HP9000 rack has to stand alone to facilitate removal of the side panels (the servers are too heavy to slide out). You do not WANT be able to slide a Cisco 6500 out, because it usually has hundreds of cables attached.

The blades, being solid in form, do not facilitate vertical cooling, either.

This design leaves only one possible directioon of airflow: horizontal.
And, yes, it has cost a friend of mine a core-switch when the cooling gave out (there were 3 of them stacked side-by-side).

I'll admit that Linux does not intelligently discern when your system has been successfully booted, but:
a/ Bare Metal Backup
Ever heard of 'dd', 'dump' or 'tar'?
They make a binary, filesystem of file backup of your system, respectively.

b/ Snapshotting
You mean like LVM snapshots?
As a general system, they provide copy-on-write snapshots for any block device, be it filesystems or Virtual Machines. http://www.heckofaworld.com/good-times-with-lvm-snapshots/

Apparently, you haven't heard of Red Hat Network or Satellite Server.
It allows you to place all systems in groups and apply specific update packages to those groups.

Network Bare Metal Installation is blazing fast with PXE boot and kickstart.
System configuration can be completely automated with cfEngine or Puppet.

Even without these tools, basic scripting knowledge allows you to do this with pre-installed tools or little helper apps like clusterSSH

I admit all of the above tools have a rather steep learning curve, but they are fully customizable.
The only limit of these tools is your imagination.