So 20 million Yahoo user names are revealed. Why is that interesting at all? I guess if I write a script which loops some id for a yahoo info page I get a similar list. Maybe a Google search is enough. Or do not contact external service, just guess: take all Japanese names, append one or two digits to it. Mostly these are valid names.

25 W idle is quite impressive, could you describe what parts and other measures have you used to achieve it? Now I have 3 computers online 24h in my home alone, mostly idle. Two are about 60W at idle. The third is a Raspberry Pi, which only consumes a few watts, but it has an attached LCD display too.

Regarding servers: I believe the new servers has much better energy management, so the idle - full difference may be larger than once it was. I also found that it is very hard to achieve a - seemingly - full load, the type of test program makes a big difference in power consumption, even if top displays 100% on all cores in every cases.

I agree, the wattage must be measured. As another example, I measured 80W idle and 160 W on full load on a 12 core Opteron server.

This server does not have a 3D video card. I guess you also achieved full load on a 3D card too, and that explains the large difference between the wattage in idle and full load in your case.

I mean "...I have never seen mentioned..."

AMD already has FMA3. They also published great results. Of course nobody read it, at least I have seen mentioned it in the usual generic benchmark articles people like to refer (which does not use FMA3).

I recently installed Windows 7 on two machines. It took 5 hours on both machines to download, setup all patches. It restarted itself about 15 times. The Windows update process is ridiculous.

AFAIK In Europe the role of the jury is much smaller. If there is a jury at all, it is only a few people, and they alone do not decide about anything, they work together with the judge.

Yes. Since I have learned touch typing, I use CAPS LOCK extensively. Like in the previous sentence. If I have to type more than two (or one?) upper case characters I always use it.

It was indeed one of the most difficult key to learn, maybe because if I accidentally hit another key, the usual Backspace does not correct it. But it is well worth to learn it. Otherwise I had to switch between LEFT SHIFT and RIGHT SHIFT after almost every character, which drives me crazy. I am not sure, but I assume, that those who hate CAPS LOCK never really learned touch typing well, if at all.

It is by no accident that there was a SHIFT LOCK key on every typewriter (and that was less useful than CAPS lock), which was mostly used by professional typists.

You can use a Kinesis Advantage keyboard. First, important keys are pressed with the thumb, not the right fingers (Enter, Ctrl, Backspace). Second, the keyboard is programmable, so you can map all problematic keys to the left side and type them together with AltGr (right ALT). I am already using this method, because our national characters take the place of almost every symbol characters, which are important for coding. It is working well.

I understand, too high temperature is one thing, but crashing is really bad.

The new models, which have onboard IPMI controller, send you an email if a sensor value is unusual. At least I always get a notification email when I open the case, telling me just that: somebody opened the case. I had no problem with temperature even when I run a burn-in utility.