Surprised Pong wasn't mentioned at all. If not for Pong, where would the computing (graphical) gaming industry be?

My last laptop had the screen fried (literally... sparks and more sparks before display was gone)

If you don't mind opening it up a little, remove the whole cover -- screen et al. Hook up an external monitor and you have a Commodore-64-looking PC. (OK, not quite the same looks, but you get the drift)

For people from cultures that doesn't really have the slightest sense of April Fool's, it is actually very annoying to finally realize that this might not be real.

I'm all for null-terminated strings, but just for the sake of giving a counter-example, look at Microsoft's implementation of BSTR. It basically starts the string with a string length, then the rest of the string. So technically speaking, you don't need the null since you already know where the string would end. (Correct me if I'm wrong... it's been quite a while since I last played with BSTR)

The question is not whether Linux will support the drive -- someone will eventually write one. The question is what files to put in there to make it boot faster. Perhaps should be done is to put the entire swap partition in there, and put those "hibernation" files in the swap. So it would resume fast, and would also make normal operations faster with the faster swap.