Why not just PXE boot a small OS image which does the backup and wipes the drives?? Linux or DOS will do the trick just fine. If you're trying to backup anything NT based (NT-Win7) get a read-only NTFS driver on the PXE image too. It's pretty simple really and doesn't take any real time IF all of your systems are semi-modern.

... to welcome our new Aussie overlords.

I know where I'll be buying my next iPhone. Over here the pricing is as follows:

16GB = $949 NZD 32GB = $1129 NZD

Direct conversion USD -> NZD

16GB = $793 NZD 32GB = $915 NZD

From an iPhone user's point of view (at least this iPhone user's view), this is a catch-up to not only Android, but also some of the fun little things users currently jailbreak their phones for. I've been a good little boy and haven't jailbroken this phone yet and will wait till this fall to see how version 5 does. Hopefully the notification system is on par with what Android has. As far as the camera goes, I still don't see HOW it has taken them this long to figure that brain-dead feature out. I'm picking no one in the higher ranks of Apple use their phones for taking photos. As for iCloud, meh. If I were still living in the US i would use Google's service. Since I live in NZ, iCloud will be first to the show over here.

Here's a small list to start with of treaties which weren't honored: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_treaties_did_the_US_break_with_native_Americans To the other part of your post, being an American who has been living outside the US for over a decade, it's very interesting seeing the world perspective versus the US perspective in things like the news. As a little homework assignment for all Americans, watch the news over the next few days. After watching, try to find similar stories from other countries and see how they report it. It wouldn't be difficult to find a real list but, hell, it's been a long day and I'm tired.

or I could have read "3GS" and kept my mouth shut :)

Uhm, no. Patently wrong. You must not have your WiFi turned on. Works on my system just fine through WiFi, my desktop system via WiFi, and my wife's Bluetooth-less HP laptop via WiFi just fine.

I think it looks like a slightly younger David Letterman. :)

Even worse, you could have run loadlin and run an old distro on your phone. Play with it a bit and I'm sure someone would have found another way of getting Android up and running on it. :)

Oh, so they're like every other industrialized nation, especially when they start rapidly picking up momentum. China is starting to flex its collective muscle just like European countries, the US, and other nations did in the past. The difference this time is that China as a country hold about 1/4 of the world's population. They will only listen to the world's concerns when enough people bitch and don't buy products manufactured there. The first part of that last sentence is easy to carry out. Everyone likes to bitch and moan. The second part of it, well, that's a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bit more difficult to say the least.

Aren't all three platforms based on .NET with variances in the build for the specific architecture? They've done in essence what Sun has been trying (and succeeding in numerous ways) of building for one platform and distributing to many. .NET is Microsoft's JAVA. This isn't surprising, it is EXPECTED!!! Ok, done with my rant. Please, move along....