Ed Nisley of Circuit Cellar shared an interesting statistic a couple of years ago - that it costs approximately $2 per watt per year. This counts both the supplying the power to the computer, and the power to the fans and chillers to take it out...Needless to say, I don't put friend's servers in my basement....

In addition, staying technical is in a lot more demand than managerial skills....

Do you like children? If you don't, don't become a manager. A *lot* of the job is getting people to act like adults..
Similarly, do you have control over budgets and people? Who would you answer to? What would be the expectations from your boss over the next 6 months?
Is your boss competent? If not, trouble.

What a joke! I just tried this on my wife's Vista laptop. Your two options for account creation are 'administrator' or 'standard account', with 'standard' being the first defaulted choice. The only problem with this is that you can't install software at all with the standard account. Good luck with trying to install Microsoft Office from a standard account...
There is so much software out there that simply won't install correctly if the user is not an administrator, I don't even try any more...
And of course, this does nothing for the bulk of Windows home users, running Windows XP. These are the principal vectors of most malware...

Linux would never have the same level of bugs as Windows, for one simple reason. The default user configuration on Windows in a home environment is that any user has administrative rights (which is not the case, by and large, in corporate environments). This is primarily due to the vast majority of Windows applications being unable to install correctly if the user does not have administrator capability.

This leads to all sorts of bogus cruft getting installed on machines by users who are without a clue with computer security, and simply don't know to install tools like NoScript or SiteAdvisor and to pay attention to the warnings they generate.

Linux's in general do not run normal users with superuser capabilities, which stops a lot of garbage from getting installed on machines in the first place.

'set mode binary' prior to moving the file. I bet the file you are moving isn't a text file with CR-LF line terminations as normally found in DOS, or one side is set and the other isn't.

Ritchie's Law - assume you have screwed something up *first*, before blaming the tool...

As the letter was signed by the high school principal as if he was the girl. Nice friendly town, BTW. Identity theft? maybe... copyright infringement? probably...
I think the person that did this is likely to be out a job once it is all said and done....
I am not a lawyer... I am just doing this build my typing speed....

This is likely to go down a similar path to the Lexmark vs. Static Control Components case - the court said that copywrite protections don't apply when they are required for plug compatibility.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int'l_v._Static_Control_Components for more details.

These agreements are to protect the company, not the developer. You are pond scum in their eyes. Now if you sold 500K bundled Macs a year, let's talk,,,,

The vast part of the disk market (particularly in arrays and servers) wanted higher RPM's to reduce rotational latency when reading data. I am not aware of *any* 10K or 15K RPM 5 1/4" drive mechanisms. Also, small drives produce less heat and noise, and take up less space in a drive frame. There are no advantages to 5 1/4" formats anymore..
The defects arguments are bogus. All media has some defects, but those get spared out as a part of the manufacturing process. Most drives allow one defective sector per track, and there is usually a fairly large number of defects that can occur prior to the drive turning to trash.

You aren't just kidding - I wrote a reporting system for a nuclear plant weld monitoring system. and 2 bubbles turned into 5500 lines of FORTRAN after all the hidden contractual commitments became known....