To continue the passive-aggressive protests, sit your ass at your desk but continue to do everything via Zoom, email and instant messenger. Never look at anyone's face in person. Continue to work "remote" and don't give them the chance to say that the in-person environment is better.

Third option - legal counsel dies of old age before the case is finished.

You can get a master/slave combo VMWare VM at http://www.cloudera.com./ They also have packages for Ubuntu, I made an at-home cluster of VMs with one master and a slave that I can replicate.

Anvilania...

What about the "casual" games in Flash, or iPhone and Android games? Are the conditions or payoffs any different there?

Somewhere shortly after Fedora 10 came out there was a kernel update, and my Sierra Wireless 3g card stopped working. It stopped working on Ubuntu about the same time, and there were bug reports in both places, but no fixes. Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04 didn't fix it, but with Fedora 12 it works again. I'm typing this from a VMWare running the Fedora 12 Live ISO and the 3g in a USB port.

My wife drives a Hummer, and if it ever collides with a Smartcar I know who's going to be leaving the bigger "carbon footprint" all over the highway.

My wife drives a Hummer, and if it ever collides with a Smartcar I know who's going to be leaving the bigger "carbon footpring" all over the highway.

I beg to differ. Ashley Qualls built a multi-million dollar company out of her site, http://whateverlife.com/, from ad revenue. Her site features different layouts for Myspace. When you stop laughing, go read this article http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html, which mentions, among other things, that her site gets more hits than oprah.com. What have YOU been doing in your parents' basement?