Does this include SUVs, or are SUVs a loophole big enough to literally drive a truck through?

I've been teaching my 9-year-old daughter programming. We started with http://www.codecademy.com/ learning JavaScript but have now moved on to Python, which she prefers because of the Monty Python references. JavaScript is similar enough to C++ (those annoying semi-colons!) to give them a bit of the flavor, and CodeAcademy makes it easy to give them a taste. On a side note, Python has a great free intro book, Think Python: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython It's not turnkey like CodeAcademy, but it's very well written for someone who has never programmed before. I think Python is easier to learn but it is less similar to C++ than JavaScript, so there are pluses and minuses to using it in your situation.

Why is nobody asking the important questions?

I use BackupPC at home and at work. It backups up linux clients easily. Setting up Windows XP pro as a client is actually pretty easy, too, using a very small version of rsyncd that is available at the BackupPC site. I have not had luck setting up XP Home as a client using rsyncd, I suspect because of the way it handles permissions. If an XP Home client is on an internal network, you could share the folder you want backed up I don't do that because the XP Home machine I want to back up is a laptop -- shares bad on laptop.