There is also a KDE alternative, Kobby: http://greghaynes.github.com/kobby/ Both Kobby and Gobby can work together.

Even so, I would prefer an educated drug user to an uneducated one.

Given that the current system is based on rewarding students for education (albeit with grades, not money), changing what the reward is wouldnt make a difference. The Overjustification effect has already taken place. How many of your friends in school did their homework 'Just for the sake of learning'?

Now!

OS X is a solution, ive found. iChat features send message to SMS, which allows a user to respond to an apple number that forwards the message to your machine. Just login on your desktop at the same time and send a message from your laptop to link your phone number to your screen name. :)