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That guy suggesting RabbIT may not be far off in his thinking. Realistically, we need to get admins to change behavior at the server level. For bandwidth reduction, using HTTP compression & converting non-animated GIFs into optimized PNGs will help (did this with servers I work with). I did write up my initial findings last year: I should probably go research if there's a way to shrink Flash files... http://www.wolfsheep.com/index.php/Technical/FixOurWeb

At work, we use IPv6 for our VPN, and IPv4 for Internet access. All the separate LANs are using private IPv4 addressing, using NAT with static IPs on the external interfaces; OpenWRT-based routers (take a $70 ASUS router and re-flash it with Linux); and tinc VPN software to link the routers together with a private (unique local address) IPv6 subnet. Furthermore, I run a SixXS tunnel at our main server farm that lets me provide IPv6 Internet access to all the sites via the VPN: hence I have both public and private IPv6 subnets running concurrently. If you want automatic routing, you can use Quagga to set interface addresses, do route advertising, and use OSPFv3 or RIPng to manage the subnets.

http://www.openwrt.org/
http://www.tinc-vpn.org/examples/ipv6-network
http://www.wolfsheep.com/index.php/Bookmarks/IPv6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
http://www.quagga.net/

If you know of a Windows ext3 or Raiser driver, then please tell me. Basically, nothing has changed.

Well, instead of moaning about the non-existence of something that you've clearly not checked for, you could always try this site, followed by this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one, plus many others.

http://www.fs-driver.org/
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm
http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/
http://freesourcecodes.tripod.com/ext2.htm
http://p-nand-q.com/e/reiserfs.html
http://www.wolfsheep.com/map/#RFSGUI
http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ ltools.html

The above links were all gathered from http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm I've not tried any of them, but this one looks the most polished. YMMV, knock yourself out, etc.

I've used .NET in my last 4 jobs...

Job 1: I wrote an Remote Desktop client in VB.NET to access the work VPN faster over a modem (there's settings for the web/RD component that aren't in the standard client), and a dumb little "evolution meter" as my first C# program.

Job 2: I wrote a pricing system in VB.NET to manage store pricing and system build configurations; a final version before I left allowed you to choose some of the parts from lists based on the datafile.

Job 3: I began using C# exclusively and generated a lot of small tools to help me do clerical & maintenence work. I even have a webpage for those apps: "How I Became a SysAdmin"

Job 4: At my new job (with a global defense contractor), I work at a helpdesk where people use a mix of propietary commerical products & in-house .NET tools to do IT support. I am already looking at writing code for their use as well, in C# of course.

Bottom line: I've seen .NET in a 10 person tech shop, a 75 person warehouse, a 1200 person aviation manufacturer, and a 130000 person defense contractor. Need something quick 'n dirty, but not as obtuse as VB, or as complicated as C? .NET has worked for me.

MemTest86+ helped me solve a memory voltage issue (my mainboard defaults to 2.5V on RAM, but it gets errors until I hit 2.7V). Also, scaling back my RAM (a generic DDR400 Samsung 512MB) to DDR333 lets me have lower memory timings (2.5-3-3-7) & overclock my HT to 220x4. My Athlon 2800+ is running @ 2.16GHZ: a 20% overclock.

http://www.wolfsheep.com/technical/rocko.html

Did anyone notice the offsets of the text?

Wolfsheep: Political

I think they cobbled together pieces to show it was a Colorado manual with directives to immediately challenge votes. Either that, or a very bad printer! I put an analyzed photo on my political page.