Wow, you just made me re-animate my /. account. You have just described some of the major reasons I have gone in a great big circle around the Android phones, even if I find the *idea* of a Linux-based phone OS by Google very appealing. I have an iPhone that has all the same advantages of the Apple computers, only amplified: Complete hardware control and testability. They might be a little more expensive, and Apple might be dickheads, but they still deliver a better end product to the users. Maybe in a year or two

Good thing you answered - I saw that the project home page hadn't been updated for 6 months, so I assumed that it had gone the way of the dodo, like so many other SF-projects.
I'll try to dig up my Qtek and see where that takes us :)

Jeez. Troll? Come ON. Offtopic, may be, but definitely not troll.

I had completely forgotten about my near-useless Qtek 9100 (same as HTC Wizard, the slight difference being the casing, colours and market)
Is it any good, or is it just as treacle-slow as the Windows implementation?
Argh, who am I kidding, I'm probably going to dig it up and have a go either way. F/OSS FTW! :-D

"I assure you sir, I am as American as you, and my name is Billy". Said with a very convincing tone - with an Indian inflection.

Actually, when I called the (Danish) Dell Tech Support, I was very well treated. I thought the SLA on our desktops prohibited me from breaking them open without speaking to them first, but they told me to rock rock on, and took my word for concrete problems.
Then again, buying in bulk will do that to support.

Last time we had a base station destroyed (torched), we had a temporary base station up and running within two days. The local subcontractor worked almost around the clock to get it up, even though he in no way was demanded nor expected this. We got mails from customers praising the hard work done by the people involved. Of course, that mail made its round the same day it came in :)

Not that I dislike the story - I just think it should be in Idle, not in Tech.

Not only true, but apt, precise and funny. n1 :)

Try nigh-impossible.

Even better - you could RTFA.

You're missing the even bigger point:
What's the reward?
Seriously, I have a huge family in the Disko Bay, and many of them have boats. Finally the greenies have an option to get rich quick!

Right there is a free-market reason to pay a premium to be tested somewhere with newer test equipment and a stricter regimen of cleaning etc.

Also useful if you're deleting stuff, Ã lalsof | grep

For me, relative directory changing is only for local boxes. When you routinely log on to equipment all over the country (my country being a bit smaller than yours), you want 'history' to be able to show you exactly where you did what.