HP N54L Microserver.

Costs AUD$300 ish new. Replacement power supply as HP Spare Part is AUD$229. I'm currently replacing electrolytic caps on it in the hope that it will work again. Failing that it'll be 2nd hand on ebay.

I admit it's a bit of an oddball server but there are a lot of them out there.

Damn, I wish my supermarket had that.

I worked for a large supermarket for almost 10 years in the 1990s, back in the day where you were required to go fast and maintain at least 20 items scanned per minute.

These days I guess you can't enforce that sort of performance stuff due to OHS bullshit. I can get through a self-checkout much faster than the lethargic high-schooler can scan and bag my items. I therefore prefer the self-checkout for that reason, plus I don't have to make inane small talk.

In AU, my brain assplodes when people tell me that if they don't vote for one of the two major parties, their vote is wasted.

Then again I'm one of those annoying people who number all 126 squares on the senate voting form and take 10 minutes at the booth.

Every VPN service I've used has supported OpenVPN. At home I use PIA, with DD-WRT running under hyper-v as my gateway and it forms a VPN to PIA, which has an exit node in my city. For all computers I need to have VPN browsing, they use that DD-WRT as their default gateway. I actually have two DD-WRT, one that VPN to exit in Melbourne, AU for general browsing etc and one to exit in Cali, USA (that is used for Netflix on the Roku only).

My previous service (DSL) used an ISP supplied consumer grade Billion modem/router (7404VGP). That could also form a VPN to PIA although for that one the only combination that worked was PPTP which is not particularly secure or robust.

Any SMB grade equipment or better will be able to setup a site-site VPN with one of the cloud VPN providers. E.g. Sophos UTM, Barracuda, Fortinet, Watchguard, Cisco, Meraki etc. Whether or not that is a good idea is a separate issue.

As an ex Winmo6 user before I switched to Android, I was amazed that my bosses Win7 phone could not join hidden wireless networks. There was no way to do it.

It's a bit of a flaw for a corporate phone.

Maybe it's been fixed in the last few months (last looked at it Nov 2011).

Indicating to exit a roundabout is also the law in Australia but the number of people who actually do it can be counted on one hand. Further, most people think the law is 'give way to the right' (we drive on the left) when in fact it's 'give way to vehicles already on the roundabout' which for 10% of the time is not the same thing.

For those in the civilised world, that would be "cheque book" and "cheque".

She was elected by the voters in Altona...

Sorry, can't do that. I always put Family First members last. Can put Conroy second last though.