I don't know, I might prefer a nuclear blast over the EMP scenario. This novel has the strange overtones, such as the forward, but it's an interesting and scary prospect.

Well, in this case, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I run Linux in a VM on the mini and keep my home Splunk instance running on that.

Dude, I just picked one of these up at Wal Mart.

Holy Shit! This sounds like the plot (fore-story) to an AquaMan movie.

It probably won't be noticed by most home-users but if I were still an admin, I would want to deploy W7 for the simple reason that it has a useful shell integrated. W7 includes PowerShell 2.0 and it is indeed pretty cool. I use Mac and Linux on my own but those are generally not an option in the workplace, in regard to the desktop. Microsoft has been trying to replicate the stability of Unix for years but just fairly recently, they've finally been getting around to trying to replicate the usefulness of the CLI.

Everybody thought the movie "The Blob" was fiction. Well, it wasn't. Now, with global warming, the blob has thawed. My suggestion is ... stock up on fire extinguishers.