I was just looking at an SGI Fuel on ebay this morning and wondering if I could virtualize it with Qemu or Bochs...
But seriously I wonder why SGI never compiled their stuff on a Linux / GNU kernel and moved off MIPS.

Oracle has owned Berkley DB and Sleepycat since February 2006 and it is still in fine shape. Still open source and still used the same as it ever was. I suspect that MySQL will be the same.

Back in 1995 IBM unveiled the ThinkPad 701C which had a folding keyboard. These should be resurrected and put into Netbooks. It really was a slick way to shrink a full sized keyboard. For some reason that notebook was the only one ever to have that keyboard.
I have a BlueTooth Folding keyboard that is almost OK but it lacks many keys and you are forced to use meta keys for too many items.

Stand alone GPS has every road in the palm of your hand w/o any connection where Google's maps need gigabytes of pixel based maps at each resolution you want to view.

I have (and really like) a Nokia Internet tablet with Maemo Mapper and it is great but I am constantly managing the maps prior and during a trip. The golld old Garmin V had the whole US inside it just worked.

Another plus for stand alone is water navigation. Although a much smaller segment, I would think that small craft GPS would never switch to Google.

That is the ugliest SGI ever made!! I spent the late 90's on Indys, O2s, Octanes (the real ones), Onxys, and Origins and they all were beautiful. Maybe they should outsource design to Apple and get some mojo back.

I agree!! I thought that the alternative to norm and pushing the bounds was what this crowd was all about.

As far as doing the math, if they take the money they save from hardware and provide good jobs to people that can not be outsourced (this setup is going to need on-site hands) how about commending them for that. They should get some small US town (with a fat pipe) to help on the taxes for bringing tech jobs to them.

Absolutely!! I routinely tell my children that I pay for their life, not their lifestyle. I take care of needs not wants. When they can routinely come up with the money for the want, then they can buy it.

However there are circumstances that would be require it. We live in a small Wisconsin community and school is three easy blocks away, downtown is 7. In a big metro area I am sure life is different (they can have it).

I have the N770 with only 128mg RAM, I get by very well and have not wore out my 1 gig flash by all that swapping. The apps are not from win32land, they are quite well suited to low memory. What the N770 lacks is CPU and the N900 delivers 600mhz (read: I am jealous!!). These Internet Tablets are very well designed and each revision is greatly improved. I am very happy to see a new model as I was worried that Nokia was throwing in the towel on Maemo, which is another great asset for this line.

Adobe will still sell you Dreamweaver and Fireworks even though their original products are their preferred. I think that they actively develop them too. I would think that a product worth it's salt will live on it's own merit.

Unless the person has never had a computer or does not know where they can get a used one the new ones are not going to off set the energy of disposal of the old one and creation of the new one. I believe that this applies to just about any commodity.

To be really green I think that they should take in the {insert thing name here} for disposal / recycle, and show the true cost like a sticker on a hot water heater shows the energy usage.

People are way too busy patting themselves on the back driving their Prius and using their green MacBook when the landfills are full of their old SUV and Gateway notebooks.