386SX25, 4MB RAM, 200MB HDD. Red Hat 4.1 (old numbers).

Since it's supposed to boot and run from an SD card which can also be written to from another machine, it's effectively impossible to brick the thing. If you bork your boot sector, just rewrite the boot image from your other computer (in the classroom scenario, the teacher can do this) and you're ready to go again.

I hope they don't kill off i586 support - that would lock out those extremely low-power Geode CPUs.

This is why I rarely read /. these days. Far too much waffle.

"defence" is the correct spelling in English.

(English - as in the language of England.)

3 is not an MVNO. They may have recently set up a network sharing agreement with T-Mobile, but that doesn't make them a virtual network. The basic idea is that all existing T-Mobile 3G towers now transmit both T-Mobile and 3 identifiers, and same goes for the existing 3 ones.

However, their network is a bit patchy, but their data plans aren't too bad - but watch their out-of-bundle rates of 10p/MB on contract or £1/MB on PAYG.

Compare to Orange's "mobile broadband" offering where their bundles might not be quite as generous but out-of-bundle is 1.5p/MB.

BBC web content is only commercial-free within the UK.

While we in Blighty only use the BS546 for specialised uses (e.g. stage lighting), if I recall correctly it's used as the standard in South Africa.

A keyboard. How quaint.

It also proves the on-board tech to help them remain undetected worked.

A few google searches by her...

How would she do that if she doesn't know how to connect?

Not a good one, they'll definitely know where to send the bill.

How else do you puncture the film across the top of tray?

Allow me to introduce the "fork". Most models allow you to puncture the film four times in one go.

Finally, nature's own population regulation mechanism kicks in.