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whoever is serving reverse DNS for you, has a funny named implementation, actually performing reverse lookup (i.e. not failing it), but sending the silly name. I'd bet the forward DNS query will not work for this silly name you ended up with.

This is weird; you should not have been able to kill init, unless you did that as root. Are you/were you running as root at that time? if not, this is very much a locally exploitable security hole (standalone mode gives root privileges to person at the console).

Static discharge, most probably. I get that all the time, especially when I'm wearing shoes with rubber soles on the synthetic carpet (i.e. everyday at work :)

terminal emulator (Terminal) may be able to display non VT-100 characters OK, but it would not be VT100 compatible any more. Furhtermore, you will have to find an ls and shell replacement which actually would use the extended capabilities of the Japanese version of VT100 you seem to need...

The plural of spouse is quite probably alimony. Or bankruptcy, whichever comes first.

2001 ML 270 CDI, with manual 6-speed transmission. Some AMG crap to get Xenon headlights.

In the order asked: Yes. No. Buy (off eBay, I guess) Network Computer server; it is basically a PC with FreeBSD 2.8 (or, maybe, 3.2) and Oracle on it. x86 binaries, of course.

Deskjets are not PostScript printers (as you could see from the actual printout, which is PostScript, but printer did nothing with it). It is a deskjet, though, and there is a possibility of installing Ghostscript to render the PostScript page(s) into whatever it is that is supported by...

He's Windows addict, but is not using ASP (MS technology). Instead, he is using PHP (UNIX technology, at home with Apache httpd). That is the significance. OK, there is a port of Apache to Windows, probably also with PHP. Still...

or the lack of it is very true. Microsoft Word is abysmal word processor. The upside is that LyX is available, for the cost of X11 installation :) The part about slow processor is also true; for most business applications (i.e. integer processing and byte string addressing) x86 and PPC...

It is an interesting site for a windows addicted person to run. Using PHP.

as opposed to keyboard font for programs... Well, the one on the keyboard sure looks like Helvetica Narrow Light Italic, at 16 point (letters) and 14 point (numbers). But, it could be constructed especially for Apple keyboards, as well.

Final Cut (listened to during an enemy air-raid, 1991). Nothing else comes even close.

or reduce the color depth/resolution so that you don't run out of video RAM. You get the funny message (unsupported configuration) otherwise. It could be more informative (e.g. insufficient video memory: reduce color depth) instead.

Nokia already did solve all of these; they even use StrongARM/EPOC combo. 9210 is the name; it actually works, albeit lacks a hard disc.

Yep, your pushbutton seems to be broken; mine is straight, without any chipped-off corners.

PhysMem: 57.8M wired, 46.7M active, 502M inactive, 606M used, 33.8M free Wired memory is non-pageable kernel memory; it consists of the kernel text and, most probably, network buffers and VM page tables. Active memory is the mapped pageable memory the contents of which is in use by...

Better than groups is the id command. groups gives you the list of all groups you are a member of, but /etc/group file (or the equivalent netinfo directory) contains only the secondary group membership: the primary group id is in the third field of /etc/passwd (netinfo equivalent). As far as...

there is -print0 command to find, and -0 option to xargs to deal with spaces; spaces have been a problem on unixen as well (but nobody sane uses them, because they break all file globbing in shell scripts; old habits die slowly) the correct efficient method would have been (the O-like...

Agree. Even though I would consider killing for a port of systat. I found it more useful than Glance or BMC Patrol. Hint to Apple (jkh, are you listening?)