Or, you know, grab a few million dollars a day again?

Your sig needs to be:
"I have a friggin laser on my head"

Allow me to introduce you to the 'Enter' key.

It is used to break up your text, and make it easier to read. Please use it in the future.

Sorry, Vista is already here, and Windows 7 is in Beta. Too late.

As long as you're running a modern desktop motherboard/processor combo (or one of the older MoDT systems), you can perform dynamic frequency scaling.

Mine currently doesn't, but my next will.

Um yes, yes you will.

There is a 64 bot Windows XP but they have stopped supporting it.
I wouldn't want to support a Windows install with that many bots either!

it uses more than 4GB RAM just fine.
Why does this not suprise me? Bots are hardly memory-efficient.

Doesn't mention what type of hardware he's going to be working with, though.

General? Or are we going to see a jump in quality in Linux support of Intel WiFi/VGA/CPU at the exclusion of others. Anyone know how software development works at Intel?

Sounds like a driver issue.
Yes actually, with the built in Windows ones. Setup bluescreened, every time. Yay quality.

Sounds like you're using a desktop OS to do the job of a Server OS. Funny how that didn't work out as well as you seem to expect it would.
As far as I am concerned, there should be no difference between 'Server' OS and 'Desktop' OS, bar the software you put on top of the OS. The OS is the OS.

I installed Windows 2000 (which had problems of it's own, but at least it installed), then used that to upgrade to Windows XP. Hardly uncomplicated.

IIS Personal Webserver? Haven't seen that mentioned anywhere, my bad.
Oh please. While I'll allow Windows Firewall is a (horribly basic) firewall, ANY third party firewall is going to do better.
Windows Connection Sharing is also horribly nasty. Been there, done that, then used Linux and DNSmasq to make it actually work.

As for people who ran a dual server/desktop on their machines, me? Until I hooked together a home server, my desktop served quite happily as a server.

Hate to tell you this, but Windows doesn't do 'damned near anything' right out of the box. Far from it.
My main desktop, it wouldn't even install without some major work!

Then there's my webserver. LAMP stack, SMTP and IMAP servers (with unlimited clients), gateway and firewall. How much would this cost me if I were to go the Microsoft way?

Wait, HOW much? Fuck that.

Um, thanks but no thanks. I don't need X11 running on my server, for example.

Hell, I've even had laptops running without it. Even 500Mhz becomes lightning quick under that condition.