Get yourself another laser printer, after I bought mine (HP P2015-dn for $300 2 years ago) I haven't looked back. 99.99% of my printing is black and white anyway, I use the crap out of the double sided feature and I love the networked aspect.

My only complaint is that it needs to be restarted every month or so - otherwise it takes 20 minutes to print 1 page.

I definitely appreciate the people willing to work on necessary things like the Audio stack on Linux. We need more people who are like Mike Shuttleworth, rich people looking to give back into the community that served them well in the past.

When I manage to get rich I plan on tackling a few issues that I see in the Open Source community as a whole, especially when we are talking about corporate developers and in-house applications are concerned. I would invest in creating a developer environment that is catered towards RAPID application development. I believe that this would be a good realm to get people to jump ship from the MS "Stack" - provide a Linux "Stack" that goes beyond LAMP (or the many variants).

Of course, you don't have to be rich in order to contribute to software, you just need time and a little self discipline.

No, the iPhone SDK is a free download from ADC (you have access to it from the free developer account).

The $100 is for a code signing key that allows you to put those binaries on an actual iPhone and to submit it to the app store

2P = 2 Processor (as in physical CPU slots)...

Of course they came to this realization entirely by chance, and money was the motivator to start using Linux as the client OS anyway...

They should have noticed that everything was going too smoothly, no problems on a telecommunications network during a "test switchover" should have been a major red flag in-and-of-itself.

I don't need ANOTHER heater:

I already have:
my Quad Q6600 + 22" monitor
my C2D MacBook + 24" monitor (Dell UltraSharp furnace)
my AM2 X2 + 2x 19" monitors
my P4 3.06 533Mhz FSB (forget which series the chip is from) + 19" monitor

Now if I could only efficiently recirculate air from my 150 sqft office to the rest of the house, I wouldn't need a furnace...

Dealing with regulations for the banking industry: There is a requirement that SSNs are encrypted, unfortunately under the regulation, ROT-13 would pass under the definition of encryption under the regulation.

The same thing can be said for the people who have a bot-infested XP machine sitting in their office. Instead of spending the money on AV and security, investing time into making sure they aren't stupid on the web - they just go on with life and blame the hackers.

Another thing that goes against us is the portrayal of hacking in tv shows and movies - they make it look super easy to hack into NSA systems and other HIGH-SECURITY systems that people start to believe its possible.

And don't forget the idiot US congress-critters that FEAR diesel and particulate emissions. Add regulation, ridiculous emissions standards and the cost associated - this is why diesel is not a good option in the US.

I especially hate it when they block websites, I came in to find that *FLICKR* is now blocked... I can understand Youtube and porn sites, but flickr?!

They do make it hard to love them sometimes...

Do you guys remember VCR+, where you could mark a particular series from a tv guide and your VCR would record all the episodes?

I wonder how many of our congress critters are driving fuel efficient vehicles that would be negatively impacted by this change, or do they all drive Chevy Tahoes at about 10-15MPG and it would be less in taxes each year...

They have these databases available, at a cost. You can pay through the nose for a solution from Vertex Inc, but of course that adds a whole big chunk of change to a company's operating costs (more servers and more annual fees for software) which gets passed down to the consumer in addition to the tax hike.

Denver also concentrates heavily on .NET jobs. I think I need to move to Oregon, next door to Linus...