I am probably going to get shot down here for even suggesting such a thing, but a good friend of mine has an eeePC, and, after trying various linux distros, and XP, actually found that Windows 7 worked impressively well. He had to use Vlite, or whatever the Windows 7 equivalent is, to strip it back so it would fit on the highspeed SSD chip, as opposed to the larger drive, but apart from that, its fantastic. I have had a play with it myself, everything works, and there are no compatibility issues, it seems to be rock solid. And comparable in speed to XP. Certainly its ability to go to sleep and wake up is very snappy indeed. So yea, don't necessary get hung up on Linux, give Windows 7 a go!

It is effectively 2 years after the initial release. Vista came out in what, 2006?

I am, my apologies. The end of a long day of physics. That gives a light-distance of 46 mm, or around 5cm. So I got the right final value, just dodgy working.

What I think is really amazing about this is that at a clock speed of 6.5 GHz, each cycle takes around 15 nanoseconds (15 * 10^-9 seconds) to complete. In this time frame light can only travel around 5 cm. Electrical signals travel close to this speed themselves, so the limit of clock speeds is being reached, since the chip itself is on this same order of distance. It is around the point where one side of the chip will not be able to communicate with the other side in a single clock cycle.

You mention doppler shift, despite the fact these are electromagnetic waves, and you have to be in something moving very very fast to observe this effect. Anything land based won't get near those speeds

It's not surprising. Be There are now a subsidiary of O2, so anything O2 do, Be There pretty much have to do as well. I started using Be There when they were small and independent, now though, they seem to be just the same as every other damn ISP out there. It seems that the whole censorship thing has finally started to happen. It always was a matter of time before something happened. It is all very V For Vendetta...