For an exciting extremely low price?

Wouldn't that be nice...

But I doubt it.

Best Buy is selling the Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle, apparently.

Target.com is be selling the Mac Mini and iPods online. no word on the Mini in stores, tho.

I've checked out Minis at several online places, including Amazon. None seem to offer upgrades, such as Bluetooth and Airport, that must be installed by Apple or an Apple reseller or service place.

OK, here's a question that my boss just asked me....

Right now we have 32 static IP addresses with a DSL connection to the internet. Let's say we switch to a much-cheaper cable modem that would give us four IP addresses. We could use NAT so we could still connect all our computers to the internet, but there's one problem: when we log into our client's system via VPN, each of us needs to have a different IP address for it to work. So is it possible to have a router (or, say, a linux box acting as a router) using NAT set up so that, say, three of our computers would always have different IP addresses outside of our network?

Tom, you can map three specific static addresses on your network to three of the cable IPs through NAT, leaving the fourth for everyone else. I don't think you could do it dynamically, at least not with the router I have here. Other routers may have the software to do it.

This is so very much not Beep Me worthy, but I have 50 Gmail invites in my account. Anyone who wants one, just email my profile addy.

Crap! I just looked, and I have 50 too!

Yeah. Me, too. Well, 49, because I decided that I wanted an email address without this username, but still

And again, I have to ask -- will there be anyone LEFT to sign up once Gmail finally gets out of Beta? I remember when Gmail accounts were rare and hard to come by and we had to push our emails uphill by hand both ways in the snow. Now they can't give 'em away fast enough.

Me too. I'm thinking I may have to start giving them out to random passersby in the street. Like car wash ads, or religious tracts.