Classic. All this bozo did at the old AT&T was watch it shrink and try to sell it to a Baby Bell.

Not an improvement.

Actually they've been promising WinFS (or another code name, but whatever, a true object-oriented file system) since Cairo.

@John:

"I would be willing to bet that very few of you Vista haters have actually run Vista or used it for more than 2 minutes and have a decent amount of time under your belt with it. Your accounts of how bad it sucks just dont line up with my excellent experience with it. I mean, if you try to run it on insufficient hardware thats your problem.. dont run any OS on a computer thats not up to spec. Thats not Vista's problem, just common sense."

OK, you need to stop right here, because you're making yourself look like an idiot. When you say that very few Vista haters have actually run it or used it for more than 2 minutes, you're making an asinine assumption. OK, you have a new machine and it runs fine for you. Great. I have two new machines and it runs...not so fine.

Plenty of people have modern hardware with plenty of resources and don't like Vista. Stop telling us we haven't used it or all have crappy old hardware, because you have no idea what you're talking about.

Farking reply system farks me over.

Yes, yes you are the only one who remembers everyone hating XP.

There were some issues when XP came out (like with every new OS), but nothing on the scale of Vista. My personal machines migrated pretty rapidly, and at work our corporate builds didn't take long to shift. Vista...not so much, yet.

Now I *do* remember that when SP2 came out, a lot of folks had trouble, and I resisted SP2 for some months before things came down. Still...nothing like Vista.

Was Maxell ever a serious player in disc media? I can't remember caring about their brand since the last time I bought XL-II-S tape (CrO2 FTW!).

OK, so you can find them, but you cannot find them at, say, retail price brand new, can you?

Having a supply problem for a quarter or two is one thing. Having a supply problem for over a year is criminal mismanagement.

Here's a thought, Nintendo...take some of those profits and, y'know, make some more freakin' Wii consoles. It's insane that you still can't find the bloody things over a year after release. Absolutely insane.

Makes sense. Is the entire root filesystem on the chip, or are parts of it on the hard drive? Is there anything that prevents permanent changes to the filesystem on the hard drive?

Dex:

Yes, we're still following. Please let us know -- I would like to assist the effort.

You mention the filesystem is a modified ReiserFS. Is the partition table itself fairly standard? In other words...I have a virgin box (never even been powered up). I'd like to image off the drive before I start tinkering.