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The only place your MAC address even is used in ANY part of the connection is between your computer and your default gateway with any switches (not hubs) in between keeping that record for a few minutes.

A couple of minor corrections:

1) The piece of "smart" hardware you're first connecting to (eg the first switch or router after any hubs) uses your MAC address for the entire time you're connected to it. That's how they know which port to send your packets to.

2) As mentioned in another post, IPv6 by default constructs your IP address from your MAC address. Few people in the western world currently use IPv6, a smaller number of them use autoconfig, and a smaller number of those people leave their MAC address at its default value. That doesn't mean that no one meets all the criteria, though.

If Crystal is running the report, then just set up a samba box with printpdf (see this site for some more info.

Works great. It's free. Infinitely configurable.

No, but you can create a printer on any Linux or Windows workstation that prints PS to a remote computer running GS that can convert the file to PDF for you (or any output that GS supports) and place it in thier home directory, email it back to them, place it on a web server for pickup etc... Instant document conversion and archiving of "printed" documents for one person or an entire office. If this printer is marked as the default in Windows, you can highlight a bunch of files, right click and select print. A poor mans batch conversion but it works well.

I use this at home and in an office environment at work. I also added jpeg and tiff "printers" in Samba also (gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -r100x100 for tiff, gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300x300 for jpeg)

See here and here if your interested, you can expand and add to this to suit your needs. I've found some good uses of this with Google.

This is *exactly* the goal of the Linux StepbyStep site. Check out www.linux-sxs.org

You could try the Linux hardware database (URL escapes me), or you could post your write-ups on the Linux StepByStep site (www.linux-sxs.org) which is entirely about "how I did xx with Linux"...

think TIFF may be dead too.

I doubt that. It has a lot of different formats, supported by almost anything graphics related, and is used in many different ways, it's not the best for all things but a decent choice for most. Faxing, scanning, and archiving of documents is probably the most common use with BW 1 bit lossless compression.
Color image storage at 24 bit raw or with lossless compression/LZW can provide a 'standard' format suitable for archiving also.

Getting off topic here but..
Ghostscript is a great tool for converting various inputs to TIFF, just specify the output device for what you need. Works great over the network for bulk conversion of PS print files to TIFF or PDF for scanless document storage.

Try here for QuickTime/mplayer instructions.

Looks like he was just trying to play the initial frame (which is a different track, and appears to be specially stored as a JPEG image.

There have been a few slashdot articles about satelite internet access, mainly starband, which people are running Windows in a VM so they can use it from a linux machine. Although it appears one has to do some tuning with linux even if windows is sharing the connection.