A small tablet with touch navigation and enough storage for my music sounds like a perfect car audio device to me.

Lovely, useless, analog handsfree phone system

"MIPS Technologies - the original RISC processor company"

Shirley that was Acorn with the original ARM in the 1980s??

1. The sales channel takes high margin because the cost of sales is so high
2. The manufacturing volume of these is quite low, so amortizing the moulding tooling, ASIC mask set etc is high and the custom ICs will be lwo run too, so relatively expensive.

Lastly, remember that manufacturing cost has no relationship to selling price. Bought a pack of electric toothbrush heads recently?

Should be "New Evidence", not "New Proof".

Actually... whichever, just set up a separate /home partition from /, so it's easy to toss on a different install later without losing their stuff.

Lubuntu, thanks!

...on a MOBO that has 8 SATA ports. Mount eight 4TB 5400 rpm drives, configure each as a standalone ZFS pool. Yup, you'll have to split the files between the drives yourself, but that's not difficult.

And it sells very detailed portraits of populations that governments want to track, more intimately that Google can extrapolate from searches due to the cross-relationships.

The time FB dies is the time FB stops violating user privacy, because violating privacy forms the main product they can sell in the future, becoming the more valuable as time goes by.

Is that 4.6 second TOTAL PER TEXT, i.e. a sum of quick glances (just like looking in a mirror), or 4.6 secs average per interaction with the device?

There is a big difference between the two...

Create a Truecrypt file filling each old drive, after a full format. Use for full (not incremental backups) every 6 months, starting with the smallest sizes (to use them up). Then put them in your Mum's garage, suitably labelled.

Last tip for backups. Do "dir /on /s > backup_2012_04_23" for each drive after filling it, and keep the list on your main machine, so you can see if you've got a copy of something (and where) before fishing around.

'spect you're right, but reading down, yours was the first condescending answer that also offered no help.

In the engineering fields I'm experienced in, I find newbie questions produce alternative answers from other people that I've not come across before...

1. Because with HFSLIP and nlite I can reinstall XP very quickly close to my preferred setup as often as I like.

2. With a modern computer running, say, Lubuntu as boot OS with 8GB of RAM, I can assign 3GB to XP under VirtualBox and both host and XP run very nicely and seamlessly thankyou. Best of both worlds.

Why do I need W7 again?

What does that mean? How about gallons of distance?

...and of course there's a disable method for your friend you lend the car to, the garage etc. Bet there are no biometrics for the disable.

I always hear that the attack on an encryption system is never on the encryption, but the implementation.