A possible answer to my earlier question about grouping buttons on the task bar is to use a terminal emulator that supports tabbed shells. It would free up a few 'button spaces' on my taskbar.

Does anyone use a terminal emulator that supports this, or can you recommend one?

The 2600 mailing list suggested I open a single session to a UNIX box with putty, and then use screen to open several virtual terminals. I can then detatch from the one session, come home (or go to the office) and reattach a single session, and have my dozen windows open.

And no, I can't install KDE to use Konsole. Or OSX to use iTerm.

Does anyone know, is it possible on Windows XP to have your open windows grouped together (much like the option "Group similar taskbar buttons" does), but specifically tell it not to stack the buttons if space becomes an issue?

I like having all my browsers together (if I'm using IE for compatability testing, otherwise I only have Firefox open once with tabs), my shells together and other similar windows all bunched together, but being a (busy) nerd, I never have just one or two windows open, but rather normally 9 or 10.

When installing Photoshop CS, be sure to use the installer found in the root directory. The key: 1131-1118-1023-7953-8858-7003 is for the entire CS range, not just Photoshop, so you can't just use the single Photoshop installer.

I think this is a good reason to not want to stick with Toyota!

I know Jack is looking for a Porsche 928, which again is clearly not a Japanese car (though it was popular iwth Japanese business men, and as a result they are shipping them out of the country about now). Ian has a nice looking ST185 Celica GT-Four on the way, and with his latest Supra acquisition, he is only wanting to keep one. I figured with enough pressure, he'd stick with the Supra, and I could snaffle his shiny Celica when it comes off hte boat, but now I'm not so sure that's the best way to go.

This beast has done 84,000kms (though the gauges are all in miles) and has a huge 5.7 litre V8 engine. Those of you that know me very well will be thinking "what - when did Matt become a V8-petrol-head?" and I think the truth is I'm not; I'll never touch your Commonwhore or Falcoon, but something like this is a little different.

It's the kind of car you raced in Need for Speed when you were a kid.

Prestige Motorsport estimate it will cost $13,300 to ship it to my door.

Where's that piggy bank of mine gone?

This year I'll be going to the Diggers 'n' Dealers Mining Forum. I went last year with Peter Christie (when I worked with PACC as a Field Agent) and we managed the IT needs of the conference.

The Forum runs from the 26th to the 28th of July (a Monday through to the Wednesday), which means I'll leave on the Saturday morning at 6:00AM and get back on Thursday morning at about 7:30AM.

We'll be setting up internet access (probably with ADSL and satellite backup), a LAN to the booths, the media room and the computer room/internet cafe and a wireless network to cover the whole campus. I'll also setup monitoring of the managed switches and IP accounting, so we know just how popular the network is, who's using it and what they're doing. Cacti will be used to graph the SNMP data that I'll extract from the switches, wireless access points and the servers.

I'll also take a few USB webcams with me, and we can do some streaming to the website (last year I wrote a script that would securely copy (scp) an image file every twenty seconds or so up to the Diggers 'n' Dealers web site. Also this year I'd like to see a 'portal' secup and running for the duration of the conference. On here we could have up-to-the-minute network and conference information, a photo gallery and most importantly, the presentations for download. I'm thinking something like PHP-Nuke would be a good idea, as it has all these features and then some.

Last year was a blast, and it the kind of envorionment where I work really well: there's pressure to perform, and when you do you're appreciated.

If you were attending a conference, what kind of technical features and facilities would you like to see delivered?