Ubuntu being a fork/branch of Debian? You're forgetting Mandrake/Mandriva, Slackware, SuSE/SLED/OpenSuSE, DSL, a dozen OTHER Debian's... Damn, we're talking hundreds of Distro's and you're trash talking because of two of the seven or eight major D's out there, not to mention their branches and the BSD's... You know, I know a guy who got sick at a restaurant once and never went back to any of the chain's 100+ franchise stores because of it. Sounds like you'd get along with him. Mockery gains us nothing.

Okay, I'm not in any way a codemonkey. I'm a breakfix/network Admin. As such I have a specific point, which will likely draw fire. The point I want to make is simple... Vista uses between 750MB and 1GB of RAM just to run, depending on what you've got in the background. I recently switched my home machine to SLED 11. According to my SysMon, I'm currently using half (435MB) of that RAM to run the same apps I usually run. From my budget/repair POV, this lower RAM requirement is a VERY telling point regarding the "performance" of Vista. XP, on the other hand, uses a lot less and NT 4.0 even less.

Two words... Rock On!

Well, I WAS running it on a laptop, not a server, so it is true that I didn't push it at all, but it was fast and stable while I was testing it. But I do have the 64-bit processor and 2GB of ram, so that may also have helped it look better that it is. I still think it's got a lot of potential.

I'm stuck with an older DSL, since my local service providers are not finished upgrading here. 768Kb. If I'm going PvP against someone with 5Mb fibre or a T1, frame lag is going to get me my ass handed to me in a few seconds. One possible way to fix that (at least for PvP) would be to adjust the speed to match the slowest connection involved. Obviously not good for overall game play, but in direct combat with other players.

1) You can adjust your commit interval and 2) Look into PC-BSD/Solaris, ZFS is fairly solid, from what experimentation I've done. Wish Linux could use it properly. Loving the BSD implementation of ZFS.

Knew he was major inventor, didn't know how prolific he was. Thanks for the insight, donger. I'll read little more tonight.

If I remember correctly, Elisha Gray's patent application for this was one of several that he submitted that day, only a few hours after Bell's went in.

And also, Frank Herbert's Dune Series; Any Heinlein or Isaac Asimov; Janet Asimov's Mind Transfer was good... Don't forget that books like Lord of the Rings and other fantasy are good stuff for kids. I practically breathed the stuff.