Good luck sorting it out like this guy is currently having to do...

http://www.azfamily.com/news/consumer/Valley-Man-Says-MVDs-Mistake-Cost-Him-His-Car-164780596.html

Use a sledgehammer

nah, it's probably $30 mil per distribution method, so $60 mil total per title.

So now it will be 2 lattes a day that you can't have if you want to watch these movies!

They've resurrected network DDE from NT 3.5 and tied it to a IP address instead of a network share.

This is one to add back to the machine lock down service disable list.

Netflix thinks they did that with the recent user interface "upgrade".

Like a lot of companies, their build qualities seem to have gone down over the years.

I have a Sony z505sx from 1999 that is still running quite strong. I've had to replace four things on it over the years - the battery, hard drive (went to flash after the second died), keyboard (left cntrl got overworked and fell off) and the phone jack (I yanked it off with my foot... oops).

Would I buy Sony today? No, very unlikely.

I've been using a upgraded RedHat 7.2 for quite a while on a LX164 and DP264. I've been meaning to try Fedora AlphaCore 1.0 (based on Fedora Core 3). See http://www.alphalinux.org/ for download and torrent links.

For Tru64, have you seen the info for the cheap non-commercial version at http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/noncommercial-unix / ?