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> Potentially costing as much as $1400, how much is your
> peace and quiet worth?

I'd value it highly, but not that high. Almost all of my computing life has been spent around equipment with fans, drives or printers that clatter whirr hum or otherwise make other white noise underneath. That's stretching back to the late 1970s.

On a few occasions I've had a chance to use an entirely silent machine, one of which was a 700MHz iMac belonging to a dear friend, who has since sold it on for a G4 model. When I used it however, the sound from the HD was undiscernable, and with no fan inside it was genuinely silent. Browsing online and emailing while it was raining gently outside was an experience, at my own desk I often have no idea it's been raining for hours as I've been working with the white noise from at least two PC cases.

If I could have genuine silence again, I would. I'm considering putting all the noisy components in another room and cabling through the wall for the KVM.

The silence is well worth it. Perhaps if I won the lottery I'd invest in $1400 per case for it, but not on my current salary.

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As a note about fully mapping mercury, it seems to be one of the forgotten planets nobody talks about much, but has had some attention in the past.

Still, there are some interesting Mariner shots of the planet online. Not quite half has been mapped yet, but there's some interesting features that make it unique.

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Europe is a completely different story to the US when it comes to how they'll handle companies talking crap. So far it's just the UK and Italy, but if they try to push any further they'll run into problems.

Like Germany, there is a lot more restriction in many parts of europe of what is allowed to be said. "Free Speech" may not exist as a constitutionally bound concept in many parts of europe, if you don't have the responsibility to back it up. SCO simply don't have that.

Along with the general anti-american attitude of much of europe I see it far more likely a country will tell SCO to piss right off until they have solid proof, putting the burden on SCO to play their hand and get the legal wrangling out of the way before they can play the media with their lies, half truths and misinformation

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in the same post. Welcome to Slashdot.

The biggest highlight for me is getting rid of the fat pervert in the MSN butterfly wings, and replacing him with this improved model

I might just turn up to the next CES

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OK, there is a level of trust, and perhaps I'm blinded by believing open source developers are more trustworthy than MS, just by nature. And yes, apache, linux itself, KDE etc, have all demonstrated trustworthiness.

I should have clarified a point, too. I don't believe a small business, or small company, can really get much benefit out of having full access to source code for say, an office app. It may help with some patches for quick fixing of bugs if they have a diligent IT person, or happen to luck upon someone who has the capability to work on extra features.

However something the size of the entire israeli government should, IMHO, be perfectly capable of bringing in their own (even fulltime) developers who can do some full scale customizing of applications as needed. Across deployments of tens of thousands of workstations, I'd see this as viable.

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> Money is not everything. Balmmer made a trip down
> under to cut pricing to Telstra - Telstra is scrapping
> Windows desktop for different solution. Israel
> government's NO seems firm.

Nail on the head. Money isn't everything, but TRUST is. No matter what a company like MS says, no matter what contracts may seem to say, Any manager worth their salt will know for sure that getting caught up with MS is a trap. Sure, they might get office components separately for a year or two, but Microsoft's record has shown they WILL find a way to drag you back into their line.

Open source solutions take the need to trust away from microsoft and puts it in your own pocket. You don't need to trust "oss developers" as, in the end, you can just be one yourself.

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Whatever happens, it's good to see that at least someone is standing fast against the Microsoft juggernau

What will be better is the result of this standing fast. Until recently, the FUD of "Linux is actually pricier than MS in the long run" didn't have a great deal of examples to look at to disprove it.

If, in 2 years, the entire israeli government is still using OSS, hasn't paid license fees, is upgrading as they need and patching as they need, from open source solutions, and finds it's a saving, that's a very demontratable large scale deployment that screams out...

"It Worked Here"

Israel's standing fast and adopting the full open source solution will make it easier for other countries and companies to find an excuse to stand fast.

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> Now, it seems like they've lost that advantage.

I think that depends what the tradeoff is. Why would the cpu have such a high power output from a 90nm process? Either it's a huge cache inside, or there is more than one core. That sounds exciting. It may be very hot running but it has the advantage of space.

Just which applications this finds use in, I cannot tell.

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