Check out StoneGate, it offers a GUI where you can drag&drop all kinds of stuff with a very powerful management system. The learning curve is a bit steep, but it's really meant for network admins who use it as a central part of their jobs. I think it has most of the features you're thinking about.

It's really ideal for large enterprise-level installations with multi-homing network connections, but works in smaller installations just as well (I used it also at home). It requires two servers: at least one firewall node (you can build clusters), and a management server (can be your desktop machine). You can do logging on yet another server, etc. They also offer IPS (intrusion prevention system) for detecting nasty behaviour.

I didn't find any good comparison, so I wrote a simple comparison table: http://markogronroos.blogspot.com/2009/08/n900-vs-iphone.html

Looks like N900 wins iPhone easily on hardware specs, though iPhone does have a few advantages (slimmer, possibly better touchscreen). N900 wins on some very important software issues as well, such as Flash and Skype, though iPhone does have much more software (commercial), at least until old maemo software works in Maemo 5 (if it doesn't directly).

My guess is that iPhone will win in usability and responsiveness, but that's just a guess, Nokia has a chance to surprise us there. I'll be waiting for N900 eagerly and will possibly buy it at some point, although my E90 is just 2 years old and has much much better keyboard than even N900...

Oh, I really hate the three-row keyboard concept in N810, N97 and now N900. I've actually had real nightmares about using Nokia's bluetooth keyboard, which also has the numbers and qwerty row combined. That's definitely the worst thing in N900.

Nothing scientifically interesting here. This is just basic 101 mathematical modeling, straight from the text book. They start with the most basic SIR model, building it from the elementary reactions and do the basic analysis: solve the equilibria and determine their stability with eigenvalues. They have just renamed the generic "infected" as "zombies". We did these calculations for dozens of different models as part of course exercises. For some reason, they don't do phase plane analysis, which is a very basic method, for any of the models, which is a bit strange.

I don't see why any scientific magazine would publish such basic text book stuff, except for fun. Sure, it's fun.

In the year 5,431,970, the ruling species, Rattus Sapiens, will clone prehistoric animals, which once roamed the Earth in the late Neogenic period and were called Homo Sapiens.

They create a theme park where the humans can run around freely and were rich rat families can admire the gigantic ancient beasts. "Ooohs" and "aaahs", that's how it always starts. Then comes the running and the screaming.