I thought the Secret Service prevented the President from driving himself? I thought Obama wanted to drive with Seinfeld but couldn't?

I'll be completely happy when they get presence to work too. No idea what that requires on their end...

If you like sci-fi and have trouble finding material to read, look for Gardner Dozois' collections on Amazon. He's been doing them for years and I've bought all that I can find. I just finished reading “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” and I'm glad it won; great story.

"I don't know how long this will take, honey. Tech support is helping me take my equipment up and down a few times..."

You mean like Microsoft and IBM working together on OS/2, only to have Microsoft bail and develop NT?

Not sure why SCO lost it afterwards in suing everyone. People will take a certain amount of s*** for good results, but SCO seems to have missed that point.

I did the same thing with a laptop several years ago. I ended up putting Ubuntu on it and used it as a server for a few websites (Plone/Zope, MRTG, NTP, DNS/DHCP) and some other things at home. Works well, is quiet and tucks away nicely.

Alternately, I hear that vSphere will have better hardware compability/support, so you might be able to fit v4 on it and run several VMs of your choice.