If you read this post, you owe me one million dollars. Mwah ha ha!

Want to log in to your baking site with ssl. Sorry kid.

I delivered a backup solution for a small non-profit client on an ARM server. It's the Dlink DNS-323 and APC BK 350. Not sure about the UPS but the DNS-323 consumes 23 watts in use and 8 watts in power saving mode. From my observations power management works extremely well.

1-click vnc ftw. Uses a reverse connection to your port 5500. You'll need some sort of dynamic dns in place though.

and better yet: in addition to just using SteadyState on the whole disk, make regedits to keep 'Documents and Settings' on a separate partition where SteaedyState is off so the users can actually save something to their hard drive that won't be lost on a reboot, which IMHO is much more useful.

Jebus, you'd think someome would have the forethought to attach a passive sniffer if the whole plant depends on on a working network.