Congratulations BBC, you managed to re-invent DPDK at the license payers expense.

Sony should also be required to show that any PayPal payments received from California residents were for the purposes of the PS3 circumvention.
i.e. not any other payments to GeoHot, for example relating to other perfectly legal* activities such as iPhone jailbreaks.

* as defined in sections 2,3 of http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-1201-Statement.html

ARIN charges $100 per year, but the fee can be waived if you return old unused blocks:

" ARIN charges a $100 USD annual fee for coverage of legacy resources under the terms of the Legacy Registration Services Agreement (Legacy RSA). Org IDs already paying annual ISP or end user fees do not pay an additional fee to receive Legacy RSA coverage. There is no initial registration fee for legacy applicants, unless a transfer is required. The annual fee will be $100 USD until 2013, at which time ARIN's Board of Trustees may choose to raise the fee. This fee will be waived until 2013 if the legacy applicant returns at least one-fourth of the number resources covered by the Legacy RSA. ARIN will accept the return of any IPv4 address block /24 or larger. ARIN will send an invoice for the annual fee approximately 60 days before the fee is due."

So if Nortel etc. stops paying their bill, will their class-A be returned to the free pool automatically?

"Imagine if you were sold a factory automobile, perfectly capable of 100 mpg with no loss of performance, but which had to be "tuned" with special software to do so, at a cost of an extra $1000. It would piss a lot of people off!" No need to imagine... http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/so-long-guvnor-mercedes-will-unlock-top-speed-on-amg-models-in-the-us-for-a-price-154226.php

Jacobs Ladder

Get an AMI MegaRAC, Dell DRAC or similar. They plug into the PCI bus and provide a java console over separate ethernet. Also have hooks to power/reset the system remotely. Servers use IPMI for similar, but these PCI cards are as close as you'll get for a desktop.

ITEM 1 - NASA RELEASES PRELIMINARY RESTORED APOLLO 11 VIDEO â" GSFC (NEW) To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released partially restored video of a series of 15 memorable moments from the July 20 moonwalk. The source material for the restoration project is the best of the available broadcast-format video. Lowry Digital, Burbank, Calif., is significantly enhancing the video using the companyâ(TM)s proprietary software technology and other restoration techniques. The video is part of a larger restoration project that will be completed in September and provide a newly restored high definition video of the entire Apollo 11 moonwalk. The completed restoration will provide the public with the highest quality video of this historic event. (Video shows the partially restored footage of the Apollo 11 astronauts taking their first steps on the moon and other scenes of significance. NASA plans to release the fully restored Apollo 11 video later this fall. ) TRT: 22:00 Super: NASA Center Contact: Rani Gran, 301.286.8955 HQ Contact: John Yembrick, 202-358-0602 For more info: www.nasa.gov/apollo40th

Astable multivibrator is a simple circuit, useful (flash lights at high RC values, make sounds at higher values), and teaches the basics of transistor, capacitor and resistor in a practical manner

Depends if you are just using it for windows domain services, or if you need to support things like management, federation etc.