So you can watch movies with unskippable FBI warnings and trailers (you know, commercials)? Yeah, that will show them!!!

If real, that is more lucrative than most apps that are developed!

That's awesome! I think my 386 came with a really large 40MB drive and I wanted so badly get a CDROM until I found out you still needed drive space to run the games on them. I only remember because that was really when I started to get into computers on my own. I was quite a hardware geek back in those days. I bought that p166 back in 1996 I think, and it was a really expensive rig looking at hardware nowadays.

Except a PIII-100 did not exist. at 100mhz you would have been talking about a 486dx4 or a Pentium 100mhz machine. PIII ran from 450mhz-1.4ghz IIRC. However, if you are talking about bus speed, then yes, P3 did use a 100mhz-133mhz bus speed. However, when talking about a P3 (or even Pentium 1), a 200mb hard drive would have been tiny. When I bought my Pentium 166mhz machine it came with a (pricey) 4.3gb scsi drive. I believe I even had a 500MB drive hooked up to my 386. And I sure did not have 96MB of RAM, more like 4MB. Those were the days, just not quite like how you remember them...

I see what you did there, clever.

IMHO, acceptable traffic shaping must meet one of two types: Traffic is shaped based on protocols only (shaping down nntp, p2p, etc.) with no regard to whose account it is *OR* traffic must be shaped by user account with no regard to protocols used. There is no room in between without invading the privacy of the user, unless said user has given up that right legally and voluntarily. Additionally, I believe the ISP should have to demonstrate some form of proof that unless shaped, the traffic will have an unfair impact on other customer's ability to utilize the service for which they have contracted and paid. Then there should be some way to determine that the ISP must improve their service within some amount of time after enabling traffic shaping to unshape the traffic to an acceptable level (i.e., traffic shaping (per account) can occur for no longer than 90 days or something to that effect).

If you are only rebooting (meaning upgrading kernels) every 3-4 years, let me have your IP addresses and an account on it to verify uptime. I promise I won't root your box...unless you allow absolutely no connectivity to your box, and no physical access to it, you are really doing a disservice by not keeping up on upgrades any better than 3-4 years. You are aware that kernel exploits exists, even in *nix, that will result in you losing your box, right?