Sure. It's a bash script written for Debian but is easily adaptable.

Most of the time taken is transferring the keys.

I'll ferret out the script for you when I get home from work.

When I need to use a VPN, mostly either to get around geo-blocking or obfuscate my usage from my ISP, I use a cloud server on either Amazon or Rackspace with OpenVPN.

Since this isn't too often it means I only pay for the time the cloud server is up. When I'm not using it I delete the server. I've written a script to get the server set up in a couple minutes.

Of course, you can't trust the endpoint to be secure. The hosts and government (including the Australian government even if the cloud server is located in the US/UK) have easy access to the server, logs etc.

Oh. You are confused.

Tor != VPN

"Methods" != Citations

Happy to clear that up for you

Indeed. In fact, lack of regulation is why the US economy is the envy of the Western world while Australia is experiencing hard economic times and corporate collapse.

Combine this with our lack of universal healthcare and, well, the place is a mess. Dont even get me started on restricting our freedom to homestyle electrickery implementations ...

Wait a sec ...

Yeah, it reeks of that to me as well. Helps to decide on what VPN company to avoid though ...

Citation(s)?

I wonder how the reviewer would go evaluating the Aberciser manufacturer's claims.

Would he get a little shirty when he didn't get washboard abs and tons 'o' chicks?

Or would he have a good look at what the thing actually was and begin his evaluation from there?

I couldn't agree more. In fact, every "negative" review I've heard/read has come down to unrealistic expectations of what a device with these specs can do.

As I said earlier to someone ... we could make some happy campers if those people disappointed with their Raspis passed them onto those people disappointed they haven't got one yet ...

Heh, I bought a Beagleboard about a month ago because of the wait for the Raspberry pi.

Maybe they are in cahoots with each other ;)

You could always give it to me.

Then we solve both our problems :)

If only the Raspberry pi I ordered April 2nd had been delivered yet. Register expressions of interest indeed.

purchased for my C-64 in about 1983-84 when I was 12 or 13.

Except ... living in Canada at the time meant long distance charges for connecting to the servers in the US.

When my parents got the bill for my "free" service they took away the modem :(

... but, thankfully, not the C-64. BASIC and the Zork series kept me occupied enough until they gave it back to me. Except when I got it back my allowance didn't go too far with the long distance charges. Something like 2 or 3 hours a month, as I remember.

Hmm, I feel like I need a shower after reading this.

I also feel like this is Slashdot's answer to "Penthouse Letters".

Because it's become an ideological issue. It's a Labor party policy so, ipso facto, rusted on conservatives hate it.

So they sit in waiting for the inevitable cost blowouts, delays, pork-barrelling, and logistic implosions that befall every large infrastructure program and use them to hammer the Labor party over the head with. And the faithful take their cues from that.

Had the conservatives introduced the NBN it would be the other way around.

I predict that once the NBN is completed and its value demonstrated it will become like Medicare - both sides of politics, regardless of ostensible ideology, will regard it as a "good thing". I mean, can you imagine the Coalition ripping out the fibre from people's homes?