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Thanks Lee, excellent point. I just spent a little time getting this set up. Fortunately I had a Gizmo5 account from when I got the first nokia tablet. I looked at this article first to get the idea of how it worked. http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/google-voice-gizmo5-free-inbound-outbound-calls.asp So I used my number from gizmo5 account and this had the n900 specifics to configure with: http://superuser.com/questions/83185/configuring-gizmo5-account-on-n900 To configure the n900. I just used settings->Voip and Im, SIP account gui and it was really easy with the link above. All in all it took about 2 minutes.

What killer new features does Windows 7 have that are worth the time and expense of an upgrade from XP?

I asked What can be done in Windows 7 that can't be done in Windows XP? on SuperUser. The top response was per-application volume control.

This question has been asked on superuser.com, with many answers and associated discussion: http://superuser.com/questions/255/how-do-you-keep-track-of-all-your-passwords

I hate Vista's Explorer with a passion.

Windows 7's explorer is even worse. I use Vista at work and Windows 7 at home. A lot of other posters are saying this, and they're right: Windows 7 is basically just a glorified service pack for Vista with a less hideous color scheme.

Sadly, for every nice new feature in Win7, there's three other changes that baffle and anger me. For example, Win7 explorer no longer displays the amount of free space available on your drive. That decision just makes no sense to me. Another thing I find annoying is that when you drill-down into folders in the right-hand pane, the left-hand folder tree no longer stays in sync.

Sure, Vista explorer will randomly decide that some code folder actually has music and display columns for "artist" and "rating", but at least I can tell how much free space I have on the drive at a glance.

They've had Super User for a while now. It's not linux specific, but linux questions are very much welcome.