You can either have the coders work in a cold room, or you can pipe chilled, compressed air to the cooling intake of their workstation. Injecting cold air from 100 PSI to atmospheric pressure results in a temperature drop of about 60F. As long as its dry, you won't have any condensation problems. ...Or you could just buy a tower server and a cheap laptop for each of them.

Would you prefer if I rephrased to say 'deadlier for Americans'? You can argue the semantics, but the point stands. More Americans died from gunshots on the streets around Obama's home than in the streets sounding the former palace of Saddam Hussein.

I want the Senator to tell us whether he believes that peoples of Chicago should be prevented from owning handguns to protect themselves in their homes. Because, the police aren't able to do so, and we can't all have a security detail stationed at either end of our block.

Thanks for thinking of me, first. Have a great day.

I'll answer a lot of these...

> SuSE Linux installs more easily,

That's in the eye of the beholder, but I'm happy with the Mandrake 10.0 install process. The only problem I have with it is the configuration of wireless cards in that it's fairly complicated as compared to others.

> has a few nice mods to KDE (including recently used programs' links, ALA Windows XP style)

IIRC, that's standard in KDE 3.2+. The Mandrake 10.0 distro that I'm running right now has the "Most Used Applications" as well as "Recently Used Programs." I don't think that's a SuSE-only mod.

> and has YaST, a package installer GUI for rpms.

urpmi, and the gui of it, gurpmi, as well as rpmdrake and mandrakeupdate. IMHO, it doesn't get easier than clicking on it through the mandrake control center.

> YaST also functions to easily change configurations for NICs, displays, TV tuner cards, and more.

I've been able to change from my display on my laptop to my tv screen flawlessly. Also, Mandrake appears to be able to handle a change of my hardware without blinking, provided that it is of course, supported. I don't think that it's a distro thing, much more than a kernel/module thing.

Now, I'm not here to play the "My distro can beat up your distro" game, but let's not imply that SuSE can do all of these things, and Mandrake can't

Consider that MS has built in a backdoor for US spies. What happens to US (military/CIA/FBI)inteligence if the countries build their own secure OS.

Yeah I though that too.