Maybe i’m one of those minorities, but just last year’s Surrogates movie showed the darker side of avatars. Think of the expectations you face when avatars integrate into your working life. Avatars interacting between two coworkers is one thing, but between the HR department or other organizations is another. Now I’ll have to worry about being mistreated or discriminated against if I don’t choose the proper look.

My new mobo has two gigE ports, so I figure why not trunk them together to work as one network device? This will work great for a Linux based network storage device (NAS). This will create a virtual interface named bond0 with the external ip address of 192.168.1.100. Anything else on my network will see this computer with this address. It doesn’t matter which interface is actually plugged in, one, the other, or both. As long as one is plugged in it will continue to function.