Two kinds of bugs:

1. Look at the pretty light, I think I'll fly towards it.
2. Light!, panic!, light!, run away!

2020 All bugs are neurotic and photophobic

unless they they ate tea leaves.

Canada needs to let the other 99.5% of Great Hockey Players in.

Just sayin'

It sounds more like state legislators (who have received political donations form the cable/phone incumbent internet monopolies) want to protect the markets from stupid (unbribed) city officials who obviously don't have the intelligence (incumbent cable/phone bribes) to make wise choices for their cities. It's too late, monopolies have already been setup, this is just about the early guys protecting their turf. There's no doubt in my mind that phone/cable monopoly money is behind this bill.

Are XP users really in your market? Do they really spend any money on software or the products you advertise? Someone who is still on XP may not have a lot of discretionary funds. Of course they might be a 'crazy' like Steve Gibson.

Convert your site to python/big table and use Google App Engine. Great up time, free (besides dev time) to get started and cheap to scale. You could do java also but I like python much better.

PS: Of course there will be people who will tell you GAE is a bad idea, every solution has negatives, you never will find a perfect one. It is better to know the weaknesses than be surprised later. I've done site with LAMP and GAE, I like GAE better. The best thing about it is you spend a much higher percentage of you time on your web app code and less on hosting, provisioning, load projections, deployment, scaling issues, server config, extension updating, etc.

>the Apollo program in the 60s used drafting boards, adding machines,
>rotary phones, and liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket engines.

83% of the thrust of the Saturn V was generated by burning kerosene. Stages 2 and 3 which used H2 and O2 only generated the other 17%.

The first and second stategs of the Soyuz also burn kerosene.

-Mike