I can use my simple phone for $73 a month where I live
- pay $80 for 20gb internet
- carry a camera that can take decent pics
- mp3 player that can hold enough music
- carry a map and compass
- notepad and a pen
or
I can use my smart phone for $80 a month with 6gb bandwidth

I normally use my smart phone because instead of carrying a backpack with all my stuff I carry it in my pocket, although for going 10km+ around where I live I take my simple phone (and everything else) because there is no network and I'd break/lose them one at a time than all gone at once in the middle of nowhere.

I am considering buying an satellite phone for use where I bring my simple phone so I can actually use it and will be able to phone for help if I ever needed to.

When I worked in an office I thought I wouldn't be able to work out that much but I ended up finding ways.

- When walking through a hallway that you cant be seen well thats perfect for situps, pushups and jumping jacks, anyone comes by just think up something funny.
- If there's a door where everyone smokes have a "smoke break" (but dont) go out the door and run a few laps when your not crazy busy.

Thats a couple I did, be creative and find a few that work for you.

I'm in the same boat my BMI is 25.6. I've talked to many doctors and they've told me every time that a BMI in the orange/overweight (25-29.9) is fine and that I (and others) shouldn't worry unless my BMI is above 30.

This is exactly what happened with me and my favorite band, I now own all the albums and also went to see them 4 times last year (one time spent over $1000 on tickets *$60 each* for friends that I have converted and for that also got to meet the band)

Also now have about 6 band shirts.

Had I not downloaded a couple albums I wouldn't have bought the merch or went to the concerts.

IT is done around the budget first.

They may not require fail over, a few hours of downtime may cost less than having it setup for fail over (x2 the cost or more).

Though I'd at least have the old hardware setup as needed for providing some basic fail over without having dupe systems

Well, you can also have access to Windows source if you have in the thousands of CALs and to many licenses to count with the enterprise technet account and you harass your rep whom is in good standing you can sometimes be shown the source.
(And you need to sign more NDA's than I ever thought existed)

but the $20 is much more affordable than the millions required to do it the other way.

Well... when upgrading Windows it can work but your going to spend quite a bit of time.

I've moved Outlook data from Windows to Linux (Thunderbird) with way less effort than Outlook to Outlook.

I'd classify both of them out of the skills of a normal computer user though.

I really have to agree with your last part

Although I'm not the slightest bit afraid of needles, nor do I try to be really "manly" I'd much rather take the firing squad than lethal injection. It's just *DEAD* rather than *oh here it comes I'm starting to feel something DEAD*

Well... I need a mod down... Somehow I was brilliant enough to mix up the ARX and BIG IP

GG me...

Well, not just Solaris but both FreeBSD and Solaris 2.6 for Hotmail in the past.

They also provide powerful suite of storage management with data migration, storage tiering, data replication, and storage load balancing.

Last I knew (couple months ago) they used F5 BIG-IP. F5 BIG-IP runs a variant of Linux, although F5 BIG-IP did used to use NetBSD back around '04 (When it was clamed that Microsoft used NetBSD).

I'm positive they run IIS 6.0 in emulation.

I'd say no I don't think they would be but my grandma that recently turned 80 is a freakin whiz with computers, she never needs any hand holding while using the computer and knows most programs inside out only having had a computer about 10 years (compared to my parents whom have owned computers for well over 20 years and still have no idea how to do anything).

Yesterday they filed for bankruptcy so its already happened.