Well BeOS would have been a cool thing to try, if not for the fact that I actually used to have a BeBox... Also, as far as the 81 days of uptime goes it is a little special to a mac guy which I have always been. Used to be the longest you could stay up was maybe a week. It's nice to see the finese of the mac interface on top of a true modern operating system. I suppose I should also mention my system was up for 8 months before I moved into this apartment. So that would put me at almost a year on Mac.
Thanks for the ideas though, and keep them coming guys.
-daniel
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