Sure, but a V8 can't touch a straight six turbo in the "looks good and hauls ass" department.

I'm sorry? Have you driven a modern V8 powered muscle car lately? Dollar for dollar a simple push-rod V8 will outperform an I6 turbo, last longer, and get comparable fuel efficiency to boot. Unlike what people seem to want to believe, these are NOT the same engines we had 50 years ago. They are far, far more efficient and powerful. That covers the 'hauls ass' part. As for the 'looks good', well, there is no accounting for taste. :)

Windows *mobile* runs on ARM cpus.

My latest edge case was running some really, really old and crusty 16bit program in a Windows XP guest and having it bluescreen. I didn't try it in Vmware. Before switching to VirtualBox I used Vmware player on these workstations, but it couldn't keep up performance wise. I use Vmware server (v2) on our two main servers here, each running 6 VM's. I had used Vmware server (v1) before that. I also bought and used a copy of Vmware Workstation when is still cost $300. Sorry, I don't see how Vmware Workstation is better then VirtualBox. I don't struggle with it at all. If VirtualBox was $189 and I could only chose that or Workstaion, I would still use VirtualBox.

If you actually bother to boot up and try VirtualBox you will find it very buggy compared to VMware...

Sorry, I have to disagree. I have many, many instances of VirtualBox running and I love it. I *have* had some issues, but only with some really far out edge cases. I find it to be very easy to use, and reliable. As a sysadmin, VBoxManage is awesome for scripting.

We use DRBD for some very mission critical servers that require total redundancy. Combined with Heartbeat I can fail over from one server to another without any single point of failure. We've been using it for more then 5 years, and never had any major issues with it. It will be great to have it in the mainline kernel.

at least till they get their hands on some jet boats

Or weed guards.

Another vote for UltraVNC single click.
For the Linux users you can so the same thing with a one line X11vnc command. I like to add it to a menu item on the Linux machines I set up for people.

I do my own taxes, and I'm neither an idiot or a liar. You, AC, are quite the asshole for suggesting that without having any facts whatsoever to back it up. I keep my tax records. There is nothing on my state-40 or associated forms about Use Tax. Nothing at all. And yet, my state's tax website tells me I have to pay it.

Like you'll even see this since you posted as a coward.

I honestly had never heard of Use Tax. A quick Google search reveals that I am a criminal.
Fan-friken-tastic...

What we really need are stronger advertising laws. Force them to simplify the advertisement so they can't give you X when they say "We'll give you X*5". If they can't provide 12Mbps, then DON'T ADVERTISE IT... and putting some stupid cop out clause in small print doesn't count. The only reason they are in this spot is they were allowed to get away with boasting about these high download speeds that they couldn't actually deliver. If they had to compete with real numbers we would all be better off, even the providers.

1.6Ghz Atom. 1Gig of ram 2Gig of flash.
Oh look! Facebook!

hmmm.... need a HAM to Asterisk bridge...
I'm going to look into that.

I have a mutual fund that includes MS stock and I expect them to use all legal means possible to reduce their expenses.

Legal does not mean ethical. So you're saying you don't care what they do, as long as your mutual fund goes up a few points. This is whats wrong with the system: People are selfish. You can only create so many laws, and there is an army of high-paid lawyers who pick though those laws and find the loopholes, which are there because the law was written by said high-paid lawyers. Until people actually start to care about the ethics nothing is ever going to change for the better. Unfortunately people will not start caring until the bad ethics bite THEM, at which time they will scream their whiny little hearts out about it. But it will be too late, because the system only cares about making money and it already took all theirs.

You're in the wrong place. You won't find a high percentage of adult, intelligent people here, and those that are are not very vocal. Maybe a long, long time ago, but no more. As someone else already said Slashdot != Linux Community.

"AT&T says that the majority of the nearly $18 billion it will spend this year on its networks will be diverted into upgrades and expansions to meet the surging demands on the 3G network."

As opposed to what? Hookers and Blow?