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It's also quite common to require a password for BIOS-changes - not sure whether that protects the Flash as well or just the BIOS settings.

1. The people who have been waiting for Vista with baited breath, and would never switch to OS X. Who may not be 100% happy with Vista but will say it will get better with time and is still better in some ways than XP.
2. The people who are on the fence. Long time window users who are upset with Vista. Who will simply switch to XP who you really couldn't get to switch to OS X if you paid them. I am guessing business users make up a large group of these people.
3. The third and final group is a hodgepodge. People who just use the OS that comes with the computer, and are getting more and more fed up with Vista. In this case, the time would actually help Apple. Those people who are at wits end with Vista, demanding XP. Would potentially love nothing more than to jump ship completely. Given people's general uncomfortableness with technology in general. Jumping ships to a new platform is not without great hesitation, regardless of their angst at MS. I think this is why we see market share of Linux increasing, albeit slowly.

What do you think? I know it is an oversimplification.

Debian AMD64: Check. AMD X2: Check. Clear

Last time I heard, Intel publishes errata sheets unlike many other suppliers. Microsoft may have a fix or patch simply becasue the data is known and published.

With your chips, do you prefer open or closed?

The advantage is bugs can be fixed.

Here is a forum on Conroe errata.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/general-intel-platfo rm-discussions/105033-intels-conroe-has-67-errata- bugs.html

Does AMD publish this?

Here's some more links:
http://www.anetforums.com/posts.aspx?ThreadIndex=2 9066
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/archive/index.php/t- 75102.html
http://www.windowsforumz.com/General-Discussion-st op-c0000135-error-winsrv-problem-service-pack-inst allation-ftopict151038.html

OK, here you go: ABXZone

He doesn't explain how he did it but there's various pictures and a screenshot at the end of the thread of the software integrated into MBM.

Hmmmm.... really? That's honestly exactly why I was getting one. I'm not too concerned about load since it will mainly be a webserver for a site no one goes to :-) and a file server for some projects I want to work on in my spare time. I was planning on swapping out the fan for a quieter/more airflow one, but other than that I intended to keep it stock. You can check out the discussion I had about it on the ABXZone forums (I chime in around page 2: psxndc). Do you happen to know how loud it is? I was told ~30 dB which is probably acceptable. Thanks for the info.

-truth

The only thing I'm nervous about there is archival quality... some research is suggesting that generic white-label CD-Rs are starting to go faster than their name-brand counterparts.
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