Finally, don't take anything I'm saying to mean you're an idiot. This is just how things work when you're working in a field where knowledge and information are important. You get new information and then you're wrong. Oh well. It's not that big of a deal.

For high availability clusers: "DRBD can be understood as network based raid-1."

neat backup system using tar... cheap too.

good general advice on bridging

create a VPN over internet with simple tool

Localhost packets don't pass through the regular network stack, so they're invisible to an ethernet sniffer. The only recourse is a local HTTP proxy, such as Fiddler

Keith Ferrazzi feature

Proxy tool

Windows 2000 PC at work, use laptop in addition