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My preferred book is: https://www8.cs.umu.se/kurser/...

I basically bought it because it is a superb hand craft (I mean cover, paper and print).

The contents is an easy read. When I bought it, it was the most expensive book I ever bought ...

To sad that the announced second volume never was published.

Back in 2009, I was at the Debian Conference (DebConf) in Cáceres, Spain. We had the presence of two blind Debian Developers, Sam Hartman and Mario Lang, both of which have continued to attend the conference at later editions, and are today very active project members.

They gave this talk on how they use their computer — Completely different ways, both very interesting to appreciate:

Accessibility and Debian (OGV video)

1. Area: Infinite.
   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "infinite".

   Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

2. Imports: None.
   It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from.
3. Exports: None.
   See Imports
4. Population: None
   It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there most be a finite number of inhabited worlds. And finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any person you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
5. Monetary Units: None
   In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. It exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Nigis are not negotiable currency, because Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.
6. Art: None
   The Function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough- see point one.
7. Sex: None.
   Well, in fact there is an awful lot in this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art or anything else that might keep all the nonexistent people of the Universe occupied. However, it is not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now because it really is terribly complicated. For further information see Guide chapters seven, nine, ten, eleven, fourteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one to eighty-four inclusive, and in fact most of the rest of the Guide

We do, and we much prefer HTTP over FTP since we do clever caching and redirects for HTTP. See: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/about/index.html

We are talking to the GIMP folks to readjust their links.

This one is supposed to be older still, at an impressive age of 9550 years.

The solution may be closer than we thought.

Over here: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/misc/BlackMesa/

Mostly used to hosting linux distributions, but this looks like someone might care to download too. Go ahead and eat a few gigabit/s for us. :)

The ZFS patents are only an issue for a reimplementation of ZFS for Linux, and that's a problem caused by the GPL.

"Mozilla was selected partially because it is GPL incompatible. That was part of the design when they released OpenSolaris. [...] the engineers who wrote Solaris [...] had some biases about how it should be released, and you have to respect that" - Danese Cooper
http://caesar.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-small/2006-05-14/tower/OpenSolaris_Java_and_Debian-Simon_Phipps__Alvaro_Lopez_Ortega.ogg

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:csaNGT3VYK0J:www.mozilla.org/community/mirrors.html

Some (not all) direct Links

North America
http://mirror3.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Europe Mirrors
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mozilla/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://napoleon.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Asia
http://jp-nii01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Japan Mirrors
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://kyoto-mz-dl.sinet.ad.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Mid East Mirrors
http://mozilla.saudi.net.sa/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://mirrors.isu.net.sa/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

South America
http://mozilla.c3sl.ufpr.br/releases/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

Belarus
http://ftp.byfly.by/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/

I'm guessing the GP meant it as a tongue-in-cheek remark regarding http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/mhonarc-files/obsolete/msg00000.html. I mean, we all know that Minix is the way to go and this Linux thingy ist just a fad, riiiiight?

Here is one of several papers about the fact that Microsoft has no interest in fixing the broken nature of excel for statistical work.

Excellent. If we ignore the fact that this is using software that is at least five and a half years old (Gnumeric 1.2 was last modified 2004-07-24).

Excel's latest release is version 12, and patched in April 2009.

Now obviously Microsoft are [insert whatever soap box rantings you believe], but linking to a study from June 4th, 2004 isn't exactly impressive. Even Microsoft can manage to fix or improve their software in that time. They even point out that they only use Excel 2003 in only 3 test cases, making the other 9 even more out of date.

They may still give the same results (Excel failing miserably), but again, the study is five and a half years old AND uses software that is one to two full versions out of date.

Find us a study that is at least CLOSE to being relevant to the software on the market today.

But that didn't stop it

You can also study for a âoeMaster of Science with a Major in Space Engineeringâ up there:
http://www.info.umu.se/utbkat0607/program.asp?programkod=TRYPM

And eventual other courses/programs to.

Oh:( I do hope some Swedish and English speaking geeks take on making a transcript and translating it. To describe my Swedish as bad would be an understatement.

Well, given that English has been a mandatory subject in Swedish schools since the mid-19th century, and is now mandatory starting at the third grade, I doubt it'll be a problem. :)

Here's an example of the English Reading Comprehension part of the Swedish SAT tests. Just to give you an idea of the level of English they're expected to know.

PageDefrag? I can't defrag my page file. Oh, I use SwapFS. Perhaps that explains it.

If you are willing to drop the Linux requirements then I think Cobian Backup has everything you need.

I use Cobian backup. It has an option to backup to an FTP location. It also supports strong encryption and password protected ZIP files. It has options to do full/incremental/differential backups so on a daily basis you're only backing up changed files. It's windows only, but version 8 (Blackmoon) is open source, so you could probably tweak it for linux. Or virtualize it. Whatever. Heck if you wanted to do a Linux port, he might even release the code for the latest version to you. J

I'm still thinking about collapsed waveforms and the difference between the macroscopic and the microscopic. I have played with superconductors (in an engineering sense) so its still unclear to me how you differentiate.

I agree !

In my university (Umeå) http://www.umu.se/umu/index_eng.html we are leaning more and more against AD and other Microsoft backbone software such as exchange. I wonder if the fact that the President of Microsoft in Sweden Peter Kopelman is a member of the university board has anything to do with it ??

Phun is an educational, entertaining and somewhat addictive piece of software for designing and exploring 2D multi-physics simulations in a cartoony fashion.

http://www.vrlab.umu.se/research/phun/

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

http://www.alice.org/

People are machines. Meat-machines. Being a machine doesn't necessarily eliminate the possibility for emotion. We have emotions because we say we do. Feelings are feelings because we perceive (experience would be a better word) them as feelings. Fear and joy exhibit different physiological phenomena within the brain, yet we call them both emotion.

However, computer operations do not occur, in any way, similarly to the operations of a meat-brain. If you raise the possibility that something along the lines of emotion occurs within commonplace commodity computers,then either you're severely stretching the definition of 'emotion' to the point where it no longer resembles an emotion at all, or you're just wrong. There is no distinctly analogous operation within a PC to what happens in a human brain.

This is similar to what happens in the inevitable "If you're vegetarian, how do you know that plants don't feel pain" argument. They don't feel pain because they don't have brains. I don't think it's that ridiculous to place the requirement of a brain (let's be generous, let's say it could even be a large collection of nerve ganglia) as necessary for pain or any other type of feeling because it provides the necessary physical condition for similar function to take place. A piece of broccoli doesn't have the hardware for feeling. Nor do commodity computers.

There has been work to replicate emotion, however. And I do think it will eventually be successful in producing something with a level of complexity that allows the function of human-like emotion. The key is in the operation, not the medium. It is very likely that emotion will be simulated relatively soon. I may be wrong, but hasn't a mosquito brain already been simulated virtually?

I don't know if I'm a "self-aware mathematical entity in a mathematical universe." I very much doubt it, but it really doesn't make any difference if I am. If I discovered that my world has simply been a simulation all along, then I find out that I've been wrong about a lot of things. This, however, IMHO, does not change the function of my consciousness (though you could make the argument that one's consciousness is dependent on methods of embodiment, to an extent).

Anyhoo.
Fun Links:
http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBC12/HT99/Dennett.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/

I'm actually in the process of setting up a new machine and tweaking all the dual-boot stuff. (XP and Kubuntu) and I found a driver that allows Windows to use a Linux swap partition as temporary storage. I am planning on using it to store the Windows Paging File. Anyone got any real-world experience on how well it works? http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ Look for "SwapFS" about halfway down.

The highly competitive sport of Space Race is always exiting.

Build a storage server with ftp and use Cobian. It has 256bit encryption too. If you are looking for a cheap storage solution you can look at Buffalo Terabytes. For about 1000 bucks you can get a 2TB server. At terastation.org there are hacks to install NFS and good stuff. http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm (Cobian is Free) http://www.buy.com/prod/buffalo-terastation-pro-ii -network-attached-storage-2-0-tb-2-usb-2-0/q/loc/1 01/204038588.html http://terastation.org/wiki/Main_Page Buffalo Terastation is RAID capable. Hope this helps. Nav

for backup including FTP I have been using Cobian Backup for years http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm for sync [copy files on both ends] Horodruin is in use daily night at home morning and afternoon at office http://stefanobordoni.interfree.it/Stefano/horodru in.htm

Not "Khoisan", strictly speaking.

Khoisan is the name of a modern human population, so to call our common ancestors Khoisan is like saying that the French language is descended from Italian.

Linguistically, BTW, "Khoisan" is a suspect concept: there are several different groups of "Khoisan" languages which cannot be shown to be related to one another by orthodox comparative linguistics - the time depths involved are too great for the question to be answerable one way or the other.

There was a recent paper, purporting to show that the earliest human languages must have had clicks, from the fact that the speakers of "click languages" do indeed show as much variety genetically among themselves as all the rest of the human race. Criticism of this:

http://www.ling.umu.se/fonetik2003/pdf/001.pdf

That isn't to say that our common ancestors may not have looked like modern Khoisan; at any rate they were certainly "black" in modern racist-speak. Pale skin seems to be a fairly recent adaptation to dim-light northern climes: the only physical benefit seems to be increased ability to synthesize Vitamin D, thus making you less likely to get rickets. In premodern times this was presumably enough to outweigh the increased skin cancer risk. In parts of the world where the sun occasionally shines (if I sound bitter, it's because I'm from Scotland), genes for dark skin are advantageous enough to spread quite quickly through a population. The racists' favourite way of dividing up the one single human race is based on a particularly superficial (!) criterion

not my cat, just one of many pictures of stupid cats that are also not my cats.

Now this is nice! Even since PGP took away PGPDisk from the freeware version and Scramdisk went commercial, we've been screwed for open options. I've been using Filedisk: http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ It's Windows and Linux, reliable (used for years with no data losses) and the source is there. But it's very bare bones and a CLI only.

TrueCrypt looks good. It's got a nice GUI, explains everything, has promised not to go commercial and best-yet they give you the option to use MULTIPLE CIPHERS! YAY! As in why choose: Use AES *AND* TwoFish *AND* Serpent. Why other cipher packages haven't offered this is beyond me.

My only bitch: All the online help is on the web. People serious about security work on systems disconnected from the Internet. TrueCrypt *should* be fully self-contained. Overkill? Nah. Consider the case of the Half Life developers: one of them got email with a trojan which found and copied the Half Life source.

Well, there's FileDisk, which is a Windows driver that will do the same thing and is compatible with encrypted disks on Linux. Since most (all?) of that work is released under F/OSS licenses, I bet there is an OS X port as well. If not, someone could create one.

There's even instructions for using this to create an encrypted USB drive that can move between Linux/Windows.

Shows you how few people actually back up their systems...

Using ntbackup

Exactly, there are so many better alternatives. One of my favorites is Cobian Backup. It is free (as in beer) and, no, it does not require floppies.

This page has a listing of some free/open windows drivers, including three for ext2, one FFS, ReiserFS, AFS, and two user-mode driver system frameworks. They also have a clean-room free ntifs.h, although I prefer a more ReactOS style environment, which includes FAT and CDFS drivers. For that matter, I'm about 70% into writing my own.

The IFS kit is now $109 and its documentation is now available online, including a design guide. The only thing about it is that the IFS docs concentrate on file system filters, not full FS drivers. Even so, if you implement the major IRP functions one at a time (read, write, enum directory, etc: each of which is documented), it's really not bad. Some of the functions are complicated (moreso than a VFS FS) but writing regfs has gotten me to the point where I can see how it all fits together. I find the architecture very usable, if overly complex. I haven't had to put in any magic app-specific hacks (at least not yet) to get them to work, even for Explorer.

Try these:

G4U

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Cobian

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Both work well.

Jeff

Yes. However, the education resource budget (as distinct from staff and buildings) in many of the prospective purchasing countries is about $20/child/year. At an estimated initial price of $135, the laptops must replace, not supplement, textbooks. This is why they are designed with a low-power reflective display mode for extended reading off the screen. If they turn out not to be a practical replacement, this could ruin their users' educations. Of course, if they work well as reading (and writing) devices then schools can provide far more books to their students than they do now.

There was a session led by Jim Gettys of OLPC at DebConf 6 (Ogg Theora format) in which he explained some of this.

I have been using Cobian Backup http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm for quite some time now. You can do all the normal scheduling of jobs. Importantly, it allows the use of containers (and encryption) OR a flat file structure. It also allows you to have Full, Incremental and Differential backups so that you can go back in time for those lost files.

I do my backup to a second PC hard disk, but, I believe Tape is supported too. The most important thing I have that I don't want to lose are my photos, these are also periodically archived to a DVD (1 per year) and are stored 'offsite' at my office, so that if something truly horrible happens at home, I still have my photos in a safe place. (The years of photos that have been archived to DVD already are excluded from the regular backup to save some disk space).

I've used the free Cobian Backup software when I need to run backups for Windows:

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

I don't know if it does backups to DVDs, as you specifically asked for, but it does a great job of backing up exactly what you want, when you want, and where you want. Did I mention it's free?

Cobian Backup. Automatic. Works across a network. Free. http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

After a guy poured some brown sparkling fluid into a keyboard (which stopped working), he wrote the following:
http://www.cs.umu.se/~stric/tmp/tangentbord.jpg
(translation: I will not pour cola into keyboards)

Sample of an opensource ext2fs reader for Windows: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs. htm
Sample of an opensource reiserfs reader for Windows: http://yareg.akucom.de/index.html

Don't know if they can write at all, but, I'm sure if you googled around a little more you'd find one that did. The point is, it's definitely out there and the code is even available for a lot if not all of them.

That said, the real idea is generally to infect via things like Samba shares. I don't think the virus relies on the user to be dual booting since probably in the majority of the setups you'll be running one or the other all the time not rebooting frequently. A lot of times, such as mine, you'll have windows systems behind linux systems acting as firewalls/routers and servers, and I'm thinking that's more the kind of thing they're really interested in.

Oh, and offtopic just a smidge, but, on a directly related note, there is a swap partition driver for Windows, which you can find info on here: http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ It's offtopic in that it's useless to write to a linux swap partition to infect linux since linux treats it as garbage on every bootup unless I'm mistaken. However, one security vulnerability in windows supposedly has to do with the swap file, hence an option to wipe the swap on reboot. Unfortunately, the wipe takes a very long time. Since swap is considered garbage on every boot (including by this driver) it will be seen as a blank filesystem each time. In other words, it can be handy to set this driver up correctly (be careful to get it right though so you don't damage anything else) and then move the Windows swap file onto it. This way you have a partition dedicated to the swap file (which also means you no longer have all that harddrive space just wasted for nothing) and it starts over from scratch on every reboot too.

• Both companies were at one time the main producer of Unix workstations (Sun during the 90s, Apple today)
• OpenStep was the result of a collaboration of NeXT and Sun to create an object oriented API based on NeXTSTEP. It ran on NeXTs Mach/BSD OS and Solaris. After the NeXT takeover by Apple in 1996 OpenStep became what today is known as MacOS X, still running on Mach/BSD.
• Styling: Sun and Apple (and NeXT) released workstations in (almost) cubic (Sparcstation IPX, G4 Cube, NeXT Cube) and pizza box format (Sparcstation 20, Mac LC, NeXTstation)
• Their Unix based operating systems are open source
• Both are strong supporters of Java
• Both are based in California
• Both were founded in the context of Stanford university
• Both tried (and failed) to grab a larger peace of the desktop market
• Both were early integrators of network technology into their computers
• Both have been declared dead several times
• Both produced some of the first application servers (WebObjects, J2EE)

Chriss

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Considering that we _were_ the ones who tried to set the value of pi.

http://www.acc.umu.se/~olletg/pi/indiana.html

Us silly Hoosiers. :-)

Cross Crypt - Open Source AES and TwoFish Linux compatible on the fly encryption for Windows XP and Windows 2000.

It uses the excellent Filedisk to appear as a volume in Explorer.

It's GPL, sorry to restate that, but I dunno if you read the headline fully or not.

Just do like they do on scrapheap challenge; send a couple of maniacs to a junk yard and let them build a diskarray from for example parts from an old Dell powerserver and a desktop case. Although the circuit card may be too large, so you may have to cut them of. Example/tutoirial (although in swedish:

http://www.acc.umu.se/images/archive/20050517-Plas to2000/

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/StarWreck-InThe Pirkinning/

Feel free to hit that, we can handle the load. :) If you need to offload your servers, you can provide http redirects to that host, once we have the wmv properly downloaded too.

/Mattias Wadenstein

It just prevents evil corporate bastard or pakistani virus spreader from calling his CD of spyware, viruses and trojans "Debian".

It's way too late for this. It's been discussed half-heartedly for ages. I guess at one point they managed to get Trusted Debian to change their name, but then Bruce Perens immediately backpedaled with his "fair to all businesses" policy.

If Debian thinks they can take the route that Mozilla has, in trying to prevent others from releasing improved/modified versions of their software as "Debian", then they must be joking. In fact, ironically, Debian doesn't even abide by Mozilla's trademark policy. It's been suggested that it's not even possible for them to.

For Brandon, especially, to be pushing for this is completely ridiculous, since his employer does exactly what he's talking about preventing, by releasing Progeny Debian.

There's no "revising" needed. There is no trademark. Their original trademark "policy" along with whatever trademark they had has not been defended. It's been years since anybody even thought about it. And most who have tried, have come to the conclusion that no policy is better than any. It's too late.

Besides, everyone sees this for what it really is. Now that there is commercial value in Linux, and in Debian, everybody wants to have their hands in the pie. A few monied interests are working to make "Free" software a little less free, in the guise of "just protecting the community from abuse".

Well, I ask, what is this abuse exactly? Is it RedHat making a name for Linux? Is it IBM putting Linux in SuperBowl ads? Is it small groups like Trusted Debian taking what they thought was "Free" and improving it? Is it thousands of web hosters and developers using OSS to make a living, and guaranteeing that Free Software dominates at least one market instead of withering from non-use? Is it admins and small support companies working to put Linux and Debian on desktops against all odds? Are these the people who need to dot their "i's", cross their "t's", and watch their backs, lest some competitor gain control of the Linux trademarks and sue them into poverty?

When Bruce started his little group of people to support Debian, all hell broke loose. A third of the developers went with Bruce to carry on the tradition of separating business from OSS, a third jumped on board with Ubuntu, and the other third just sat around expecting money to fall into their laps.

Well, I have news for those developers: money isn't going to fall into your laps. Not from suing the people making money from Linux, not from extorting them, and not from threatening them with ridiculous license changes. If you want a job supporting Debian, developing OSS programs, or even selling Linux, they are out there. Go get one. Or, you can always do what thousands before you have done, make your own. Just don't sit in your house crying about "abuse", and expecting someone to bring money to your doorstep.

According to Julian Jaynes:
http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBC12/HT99/jaynes.htm l
"Men have been conscious of the problem of consciousness almost since consciousness began. And each age has described consciousness in terms of its own theme and concerns. In the golden age of Greece, when men traveled about in freedom while slaves did the work, consciousness was as free as that. Heraclitus, in particular, called it an enormous space whose boundaries, even by traveling along every path, could never be found out. A millennium later, Augustine among the caverned hills of Carthage was astonished at the "mountains and hills of my high imaginations," "the plains and caves and caverns of my memory" with its recesses of "manifold and spacious chambers, wonderfully furnished with unnumberable stores." Note how the metaphors of mind are the world it perceives.

The first half of the nineteenth century was the age of the great geological discoveries in which the record of the past was written in layers of the earth's crust. And this led to the popularization of the idea of consciousness as being in layers which recorded the past of the individual, there being deeper and deeper layers until the record could no longer be read. This emphasis on the unconscious grew until by 1875 most psychologists were insisting that consciousness was but a small part of mental life, and that unconscious sensations, unconscious ideas, and unconscious judgments made up the majority of mental processes.

In the middle of the nineteenth century chemistry succeeded geology as the fashionable science, and consciousness from James Mill to Wundt and his students, such as Titchener, was the compound structure that could be analyzed in the laboratory into precise elements of sensations and feelings.

And as steam locomotives chugged their way into the pattern of everyday life toward the end of the nineteenth century, so they too worked their way into the consciousness of consciousness, the subconscious becoming a boiler of straining energy which demanded manifest outlets and when repressed pushed up and out into neurotic behavior and the spindling camouflaged fulfillments of going-nowhere dreams.

There is not much we can do about such metaphors except to state that that is precisely what they are. ..."

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/DualPhotography /DualPhotography.mp4

My bets are on Gnome, and metacity. Check out these visual developments we have on luminocity (metacity development testbed) right now.

That being said, I'm not entirely sure what's hapening with SuSE. It is traditionally a KDE distribution (I think... I've never actually used it until recently), but Novell seems to be really into Ximian, which has pretty close ties to Gnome.

I do fear that it's a GPL violation, though - since I fear many of those distributors don't make the source available. It might violate the XP EULA, but since you have to agree to the EULA before you're allowed to read it I never bothered to read it.

yeah.........right, Linux runs on lots of different types of computers: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/ torrents/ considering the price of a new G5 desktop i doubt it will change too much (there will be a few though), and the mac mini is not very upgradable hardware wise, and ix86 has a lot of bang for the buck & with x86_64 on the scene do you really think all the Linux users are going to dump x86? when was the last time you seen PPC hardare for sale at newegg or tigerdirect or zipzoomfly???