you really never hurd of it?

So all Finish eSports male players are also Female players? Problem solved.

Telnet inside SSH still makes sense. Ie: hosting company, both end customers and hosting company have root access. Customers can do their daily work, but hosting company is responsible for server health. How can one be sure that the server didn't became unresponsive due to some commands issued by the customer? AFAIK, SSH is not replayable, whilst telnet is. So, just tunnel a telnet to localhost inside an SSH session, and log the telnet session in a (safe,encrypted) remote box.

Nice presentation from Kevin Slavin @ TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html

This may be one of the few problems where 42 is not the right answer.

In the 70-80's there was Pere Calders, a catalan writer, who wrote a tale about a kid looking to give a word a meaning. The kid, trying to avoid the boredom of his school homework, invented that word, and he was playing with the magic of trying to find out what could it be: a lost continent? a thing? a person? tall, fat, smart? The fact that he invented the word and that it wasn't in the dictionary allowed him to spend that much time playing with it in his imagination.

After publishing the book, and passing time, the word became popular. Companies used it as the comany name, or product name. It was used as a reference to something unknown. To name a show. A public school. A collection of books.

It was used for so many things, that the people doing dictionaries started to discuss about whther it should be included in future editions. Should it? The word was in use in catalan, so it should be defined. But it was an artistic creation. But it became something useful. But the origin was precisely to find a word that doesn't exist. But...

Just like know, but it took years then. Remember there was no Internet in the 80's.

- 3D anyone? Wouldn't that double the bandwidth (one image for each eye)

- What about cine freaks demanding different cuts for their films? or the original footage for several cams (like the "directors comments audio track in today's DVDs)?

I think that definetly there's always room to increase bandwidth *and* quality, so I bet that Blueray isn't the end of the road. And yes, your post looks like 640kb is enough.

Aside from your current mix of boxes, you have to consider other things from other vendors in the future (present?).

Think of:
1) IP-PBX connected to your directory to auth users
2) firewall, to define rules based on users, not IPs. (same for other firewall-like features such as VPN)
3) management platforms, CRMs, ERPs, where you'll need RBAC

And many others.

While some of them can connect/use/sync to any LDAP-compatible directory, some (most) others are just certified to work with Microsoft AD.
If you feel there's a lack of openness, set up a secondary RH, Fedora, OpenLDAP, whatever and sync with the AD. Or do the other way round, AD sync'ing to the open LDAP, but I would recommend having a usable Microsoft AD somewhere in your network.

and several posts above

Our Average Joe, when typing a new Word or PowerPoint in his Windows computer, sometimes finds that Times New Roman looks too "classic", and he needs something more "modern", more "electronic style" (he means Sans, but he doesn't know), hence opens the font combo and (A)rial is the first one in the list, which is good enough for him. If Verdana was named Ardana (before Arial), no one would still use Arial after several Windows OS versions.

For Comic the case is mostly the same. If Average needs something "funny", he goes down the font list and the first "funny" one he finds is Comic, which again, is "funny" enough for his purposes (maybe it's the only one of its like in the default Windows set? I can't recall)

Being listed in the first page, being the first hit in a list is a powerful thing. Ask Google.