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Science found the answer after all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_sZyiCA6o

I don't mean to troll. I LIKE food. I LIKE to eat. I love chocolate, icecream, you name it. Yet, I'm NOT FAT. I've spent the summer in the US - I come frome Europe - and it's just ludicrus how big everything is. You don't HAVE to eat THAT GIANT ICECREAM, you don't have to drink THAT FREE COKE (omg, the crasiest thing i saw was this "extreme gulp"; that's just plain stupid; don't tell me you have no idea how you got fat!?). Not to mention your sandwiches... I saw a sandwitch maid of an entire loave!? while the "Poor boy's" sandwich was enough for me. You get the picture.

Anyway, I didn't gain any weight while in the US. You know, they sell great ingridinets in your marts, far better than I get over here. Well yes, cooking just a simple pasta meal could be more expensive than eating at /put your favorite junk food here/. But it's far FAR better and won't get you fat.

Now that I'm thinkink about it I remember how confused I was the first coulple of days in the US. There was food all around, yet I was starving and just couldn't find anything to eat. I don't eat junk food at home (well, I like burek [http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/548041/2/istockphoto_548041_burek_a_greasy_meal.jpg] from time to time), rather I'd go to a quite inexpensive restaruant where i can get pizza, pasta, steaks etc. for like 4-5.
You are virtually surrounded by junk food, everywhere.

And.. walk people, walk! It won't hurt you to walk a few blocks (e.g. from a hotel to a metro station). And no, it's not dangerous. I felt as safe over there as I do in Europe.

Oh, and, btw, THIS is how coffee should be served http://www.gastronova.pl/images/stories/oferta/dla_biura/capuccino.jpg
But no, "small capuccino" in your term means something like http://nick.recoil.org/assets/2007/7/11/sbux_tall_short_cap.jpeg . That's just insulting to the coffee!

PS: sori gramar nacis, ie dazn't hev bilt in speling ceker

Christoph Egger did a OpenBSD Xen port (based on the NetBSD xen stuff) see: http://hg.recoil.org/openbsd-xen-sys.hg It looked pretty promising. It's too bad they aren't going to support that platform. I've got lots of customers who'd really like a OpenBSD option.

OpenBSD has native support for exactly zero virtualisation schemes, whereas NetBSD has native Xen support

You're right, they are left over equipment from AT&T Labs Cambridge, which were redeployed in the Laboratory for Communication Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

But they're more than prototypes, the phones work really well even six years after being built (mainly due to their thin-client architecture, as only the servers need to be upgraded to run more complex services, not the edge phone hardware).

It's a bit of a shock to see this randomly show up on Slashdot, but for those interested readers, here's a WIP paper about what we're doing with them these days (using the Active Bat location system to migrate mobile phone calls via Bluetooth to the nearest environmental phone among other things).
As I said, the paper is very much WIP, and is being hacked up after being freshly rejected from a conference so the link is liable to disappear :-) Feel free to get in touch with the main man behind the phones, Rip Soham, if you are interested in more details (contact details in the link).

As far as I know, no commercially available VoIP phone uses VNC these days, which is a real pity as its a really neat way to offer easily upgradable services to the end user (forget running mobile code on the edge device, compute power is cheap these days).

The university's link is a bit hosed, so I've mirrored the site and paper here, and you can grab the ISO via BitTorrent from here

The university's link is a bit hosed, so I've mirrored the site and paper here, and you can grab the ISO via BitTorrent from here