Cost in terms of monitary cost, user freedom, ultimatly open source freedom.

Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”.

Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system instability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost.

These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry...This document analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry

Read Peter Gutmann's "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" and learn of these tactics which will effectivly lock out the open PC architecture to all but the biggest industry players.

The LittleTux.Com web server runs a client from Stanford's Folding@Home distributed computing project.
When the server isn't serving browser requests, the client applies unused CPU cycles to protein folding computations.
Proteins are biology's workhorses, and understaning how proteins work gives reseachers data needed for disease research.

You too can contribute to disease research by participating in the project.

Simply install the client on your Windows, Linux, or BSD box, and put idle CPU time to good use.

Visit the Folding@Home webpage at Stanford to get started.

Connecting your PC to your home theater system using the standard 'Line Out' jack on the PC can be a dissapointing experience.
By using TOSLink (digital optical cable, HD audio cable ) or SPDIF ( the non-optical version), you can enjoy your digital music files with audiophile sonic quality.