Ummm...If you have Steam installed already, go into the Library and select the 'Tools' listing. You'll find dedicated server software, available for free, to download and run for several dozen (3 or 4 dozen last I remember seeing) games available on Steam.

Apple users have an expectation that everything "just works" - Linux users may be willing to have a 'beta/unsupported' feature, perhaps enabled via a command-line startup option for Steam.

Why not?

With proper VLAN segmentation, it's fine. Heck, we have VLANs on top of VLANs. The blade chassis does VLANs for its internal capabilities, then via ESXi we have actual VLANs for the different networks.

Want EVE, but single player? Check out the X-Series. Very similar, AND moddable. Some of them available for Linux too - check the developer's site's store for those.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Egosoft
http://www.egosoft.com/

Thank you! Now none of the rest of us have to deal with Meebo Bar.

Now if only we can figure out who accidentally the whole Meebo, we can get it back...

911 operators commands are not law, they are mere suggestions. (I've never seen a law making their commands punishable if not followed) He (Zimmerman) had returned to his truck near the end of the call, having lost Martin, and was awaiting the arrival of the officers that were on their way. After the end of the call the two of them (Zimmerman and Martin) met and had a confrontation, who started it is the big question no one can answer. The evidence (at the scene) seemed to back Zimmerman's story enough that he was released without charges (at the time).

It is probably the beer.

So just do what we always do. Buy 2 or three and back them up to each other.

Please define 'Cheap home system' utilizing 6 SSDs. 50GB image? Just build a PC with 64GB of RAM (or more) and do it all there. Puts your SSD to shame...either way, you're limited by Bluray disc read speeds...

...and now take into account that you'll now be streaming the 200 DVDs on your shelf, using up your precious (now capped) bandwidth, in addition to the $2-$5/disc 'fee.'

Then perhaps they need to start doing them more often than yearly? Do them quarterly?

You have to make it not about the laptop. Make it about what is ON the laptop.

The laptop, insurance can replace. The value of which isn't enough for the police to "waste their time on" - also, get a VP or someone important to make a scene about it. "How can we do business here when the police won't even investigate our stolen laptops with trade secrets/etc on them?"

MAKE it important for them. Talk to all of the detectives that could touch it. Who wouldn't want an easy win for a felony property theft conviction?

"Here's the info - you just need to subpoena the ISP for where this is, and go in. Here, the machine phones home once a week. I'll even move it in our system into a special category so it checks in every 6 hours. (Move it into a seperate AD group where WSUS checks it regularly) You'll know where it is as often as you'd like."

Hand it to them on a silver platter, and they more often than not will take it, if you can find someone who sees it for what it is. An easy win for them.

I've always heard it as:

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on dinner. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote."

By selling it off, they're sending those customers elsewhere. Sony would rather close down that product entirely, forcing the customers to pick NEW things with "modern" profit margins.

They'll say Landscape. http://www.canonical.com/enterprise-services/ubuntu-advantage/landscape

$105/year Desktop
$320/year Server

For 'bulk' (more than 5) contact them for "special" pricing.

I wish they didn't do this, I'd love to try it and use it myself, locally hosted.

But I'm NOT paying them for the feature.

They proclaim the wonders of Open Source and Ubuntu - then go and drop in closed-source crap that there is no replacement for. Hack something yourself, or pay them stupid amounts of money to use what came preinstalled.