I love the irony of discussions on bad user interfaces on a site with a bad user interface!

I have a Lenovo at work that runs Fedora 14 beautifully. Performance is excellent and graphically it does everything I need, which is typically web development. Though I do quite a bit of browsing in chrome. The default graphics card is fast enough, and I presume it's an inboard Intel chipset. I don't know what CPU it has but I'm guessing it's two years old; it was someone's hand me down.

Good luck getting Drupal to as an RPC server using json. I spent days trying to get this working with my Python client and failed terribly.

Open source it and then no-one will care.

"we may not have control over what they do with it."

Haha - guess Facebook has everything covered. You can't sue Facebook if your info gets into the wrong hands. But the info can't get into the wrong hands because Facebook won't allow it. Unless they give it out. That's why we shouldn't use Facebook.

We store our home photos on CDs and only print the really good photos at Walmart/Blacks/Shoppers etc. This saves us money but we get to keep some photos that aren't good enough to print but worth keeping all the same. So we're almost "paperless" in that sense. But a paperless office needs a solid backup strategy but what backup medium can survive in the long run 100%? An office (or home user) could burn to CD/DVD but how long will they last before they become inaccessible?

I believe you just posted the singularily most intelligent and correct response on Slashdot. Congratulations!

Any direct correlation between the activitity and the current natural earthquakes/typhoons etc?

How about Drupal + this module: http://drupal.org/project/civicrm