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This article is really amazing: how to control 70.000 machines to send spam emails. the OS statistics for the controlled machines are quite amusing (updating considered harmful!):

For the first time, I have installed Ubuntu now. Ok, it is not as performant as my current favourite Gentoo. But, it is so simple to use, that I will recommend it to my mother when I return to Germany in January :-)
My SLI graphics setup (using 2 graphics card in parallel) was working properly in less than 2 hours and giving me the desired 90% speedup :-) :-) Under Gentoo, X was crashing undeterministically (I guess that the current gentoo 2.6. kernel does not like this crappy (believe me!) motherboard).
Random cool fact: here

For the first time, I have installed Ubuntu now. Ok, it is not as performant as my current favourite Gentoo. But, it is so simple to use, that I will recommend it to my mother when I return to Germany in January :-)
My SLI graphics setup (using 2 graphics card in parallel) was working properly in less than 2 hours and giving me the desired 90% speedup :-) :-) Under Gentoo, X was crashing undeterministically (I guess that the current gentoo 2.6. kernel does not like this crappy (believe me!) motherboard).
Random cool fact: here