If a system has a password maximum length, it probably means it's neither hashing nor salting your password since the main reason to minimize length would be to fit it into a database field. Food for thought.

I can think of another use:
Temporary in-room networking where security or bandwidth conjestion are a concern. I could envision a server room issue where you needed to understand what was happening at multiple points in your network that aren't normally tapped. You use something like a vampire tap and a raspberry pi to get copy off the data, analyze, and send back to something like splunk. However, rather than running temporary wires all over, instead send them by laser to the central monitor. Then when you're done, you can easily back out your taps.

The answer's in the article (actually in the Slashdot summary). Take itunes, turn it into a platform for 'apps'. The iphone is a physical platform. itunes is a software platform. There can be music, pictures, video, etc, etc, etc apps. The itunes platform can manage the sync'ing of different apps with other platforms and the cloud.

It's a model everyone understands. It's strait forward. It's consistent with their other products. Plus it provides a new market. Apple could have an app store for apps that run on it's itunes windows platform.

Buy 2 servers, preferably used storage array servers. Start a raid 5 or 6 array on one. (This server is the storage server.) This is your main storage drive. Store ALL data on it. It's helpful to have it support multiple access methods (SMB, NFS, iSCSI, etc). You could go full OS like Debian or something like OpenNas or OpenFiler (BSD based).

On the second box, add as much storage as is accesable on the first. This is the backup server. Run a cron job to regularly r-sync the data off the Storage server over to the backup server.

In this configuration, you have some redundancy in the RAID and a true backup in the second server. You also have the ability (hopefully) to drop in drives as you need so you can expand as you go. And if the hardware it's self breaks, you can simply replace it and keep going.

So I looked and I see two, x-servers: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theqvd.android.x# and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.darkside.XServer#. Am I missing something? Is there a major difference?

It seems like PXE booting something that then boots a tailored ISO would work pretty well.

I have multiple projects planned already. The first is to use it as a very cheap, simple router. I have a zyxel wireless AP, but it won't accept USB tethered cell phones as WAN connections. So I'm going to use the cell phones as usb modems to the rasberry pi and use the pi as an ethernet gateway to the zyxel.
The next project is to use the rasberry pi + old monitors as thin clients to my servers. That way I can monitor them from my desk without going through a full computer. (Other option is to buy cheap android tablets to do it.)

I recommend everyone read This Article from a day or two back. It basically explains how none of this was newsworthy and it's only been the media truppetting it which has made it into an issue. It feels like Wag the Dog or Tomorrow Never Dies. If the article is right, the tail truely is wagging the dog to the destruction of both Israel and Saudi Arabia.

This seems about consistant with everything I've heard. Chrome and IE9 are at the top for security, FF lags and Safari isn't even playing. The question is why moderators allowed a flame-bate headline. The fact that google sponsored it is not the news.

if I were lightsquared, I'd be hiring lawyers and start sueing GPS manufacturers. From the sound of it, those manufacturers are stepping all over lightsquared's (very expensive) spectrum. This is a physical, limited, resource and GPS manufacturers are both using it and preventing lightsquared (the rightful owners) from using it. Lightsquared needs to start asking for daily damages until the GPS manufacturers start doing proper filtering of their receivers.

Along with that, I honestly want lightsquared to succeed. I think the only hope for the US wireless market is the kind of use-agnostic bandwidth that lightsquared, clearwire, and sprint are pushing. Otherwise, AT&T and Verizon are simply going to lay siege to Sprint, TMobile and any small carriers until we have a duapoly.