I quoted the wrong part. I was talking about the quote:

Copying a vm to all of his devs *is* a violation of the MicroSnot EULA. If it was an Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS or the like, it is almost expected.

If that vm was a windows machine, you are a software pirate. (at least according to MicroSnot)

Not being sarcastic (this time), but is it really that hard to make a Linux phone? Something with Debian, Ubuntu, or something similar? OpenMoko looked like it was onto something and then everything seemed to stop. Why wouldn't Google do it with C or Go? (Google's own language) http://code.google.com/edu/languages/#_programming_with_go

We use Thunderbird, lightning and davmail to talk to exchange. It works great.

Ahh, the folly of youth... Someone thinks that only the young know how to do anything. What happens when the young they want to hire become - old?

You sir, are an idiot. Let's go through your blather one idiotic statement group at a time:

Does not instill confidence If you had no experience, what fucking idiot put you in charge of 700 users email? Also, it will take a day just for security updates and patches on a new setup. Unlike you, I am in charge of a couple of exchange servers. I have a lot more issues with one exchange server than all of the Postfix, Exim and Citadel mail servers combined.

Where's the text file for exchange settings or any windows package for that matter. Ever tried to read dns entries or dhcp map in command line because windows wouldn't boot all the way up into GUI mode? I didn't think so. You can open conf files because they exist. You do not have to for hours. What was that line about no experience? I can have a physical machine fully running apache, mysql and postfix within 3 hours fully patched and operational - WITH a GUI. I have over 20 years experience with winnders. I don't like it anymore. I now know it to be the junk that it is. The last time I had to wade through debugging and source code was when a crack windows dev from outside my country wrote some very bad C code. Since we're speaking of source code. You didn't say what source code you could look at on Microsoft Exchange. Did I miss that news announcement? Last point I'll cover. Because you have the source code is there, you CAN compile. Obviously YOU have never compiled anything, because it's easier than logging onto a windows machine. Why is it so hard for you? Just do these three commands: ./configure make make install I'll assume you were so feverishly typing you slipped up a little. I'll fix your last point that was even worth reading. The last paragraph was just delusional blather and deserves no attention what so ever. This line:

Should actually read: If you are really masochistic you end up reading and agreeing to the Microsoft End User License Agreement.

In california add 100,000 to that 75,000 for happiness. 75,000 in california won't even cover rent and utilities.

I know, there goes my karma again...however, there was a question and here's *my* answer:
Keep XP and migrate to Ubuntu.
OK, I'm sitting down now - I know the ms puppets are going to waste their horded mod points on me and kill my karma. Go ahead, I can take it.

You see, the new phones just announced as Kin One and Kin Two by Microsoft were a product of Microsoft's Crack Design Team.
That is, they gave a group of people meth and a crayon. (They only got a red, green or blue one.)

From TFA page:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/07/a-closer-look-at-internet-explorer-9-hardware-acceleration-through-flying-images.aspx
Result: 95 errors / 2 warnings

I second pfsense. It will do what you need. As your load requirements go up, just beef up your hardware and restore the backup config from the older box. It works great and you can get support from the dev team. Your costs for support (if you want/need it) will be significantly lower as you're not paying for all the middle management like you would going with cisco. If you don't want/need technical support, the software is free and the forum is pretty good about timely responses.

I stopped using hosting providers 10 years ago. There's no f*cking way, I'll ever do that again. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE for physical access to your own machine.

Release it. It's not malware in the way that windows malware gets spread. My Linux and FreeBSD boxes ARE more secure than your windows boxes.
If it can't be installed without user interaction, it's useless here on /.
Me thinks it's a hoax and flamebait.

I hate it when someone guesses my password.