Don't you see; fusion or more specifically cold fusion is just a red haring used by the science community to get the people with the money to invest it in projects.
I'm going to hop on this one too StartSSL.com has been one of the best things I've ever found on the internets. I use it to secure all my websites internal and external. They are also setting up a Web Of Trust(WOT) to help build their community. If anyone in the Midwest needs me to Notaries them for the WOT I can do that. Just look me up at http://taddevries.startssl.com/
http://www.vyatta.org/ I've been using this for some time now and it's very capable. Just get yourself some old hardware (my first box was an old laptop).
The true question comes, can you show porn on it? Because every good engineering student knows the first thing you do with anything that can display any sort of image is put porn on it.
Case in point. I had a friend who was able to hack his TI-92 to display grayscale, so what else would he use it for other than porn. It was fantastic!