Channel 5 WOI-DT out of Des Moines still actually transmits on Channel 5, which can cause some issues for non VHF antennas. To help get around this they also have WOI-LD transmitting on channel 50 at a low power for the Des Moines Area. https://www.antennaweb.org/Sta...

I think we are still a ways away from this as there still are plenty of things that we still need to figure out about qm. Also, while the players in the communication game will change, we probably won't be beholden to Verizon, Mediacom et.al. there will still be a peering point on the other end of our quantum link that will still need to make the connection to who we want to talk to. I would see this working like today's internet exchange points operate today. The other game changer will be the fact that individual countries will not be as easily able to censor the network connections as the qm link will be able to be made anywhere, thus anyone with an international qm link will be able to have a high speed link to the outside world.
I hope that we see this soon and it does not become like fusion research that has and almost certainly will be 20 years from being implemented on a commercial scale.

I had a professor who would have True/False tests where you had to justify your answer. You could answer either true or false to the question as long as long as your justification was correct.

what about multi user NATs?

Try using Alien, a program that converts between Redhat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkgs. It at least works some of the time but can be quite hit or miss.

and yet another step closer to the Romans and having our Bread and Circuses

Microsoft provides a free anti virus and anti spy-ware system called security essentials that is not that big that you can't occasionally pull down new definitions via the dialup. Also when you visit why not run a copy of autopatcher from your thumb drive to make sure they have all of their windows updates.

see Amdahl's law for more about speedup gain for any one part of a problem.

I think step one is to pick a storage/naming convention and stick with it. Also depending on your needs a document management system could help. The other thing I would do is look and figure out where the bottleneck is for your speed issue, is it the vpn connection, the network not being able to keep up, or the computer running samba. Once you know more of where the slowdown is work on that spot.

I currently face the wall, but that is just because I am to lazy to scavenge up a power cord that is longer to go anywhere else.
Also since my office is in the basement, there is no fancy amenities like a window to look out of.

There are plenty of free alternatives out there, I personally prefer AVG. Here is an article laying the free options out for you.

but how many people can it support on a tower at a time before it slows to a crawl?

true... but the fact is that a great deal of our electricity is produced by coal power... we should go to Nuclear or other cleaner power but that is not going to happen tomorrow. CFLs have always been more of a stopgap then anything else. Also the CFL mercury release is only if you break it... with a bit of care that rarely happens.

they didn't loose, they are just bideng their time till they can rise up again!