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Pupils on a visit to a farm confessed to staff they had never seen or eaten a carrot before.

Despite it being one of the most common vegetables in Britain, the children seemed bemused by the strange, orange object.

As a bunny and a carrot lover, I'm simply speechless (full article at sky.com).

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I'm just this close to getting my new computer. No compromises: fast CPU with 64-bit support, plenty of RAM and hard disk space. Gone will be the age of compile times in the order of hours, gone will be the age of unbearable thrashing when running VMware, gone the compromises when choosing which tools not to install because of insufficient disk space! HEAR THE BUNNY ROARRR!

Ahem.

For anyone wondering, and for anyone not giving a damn, here are the specs:

• MidiTower ATX case with 12 V 400 W power supply

• VIAK8T800 motherboard with integrated audio, Ethernet and SATA RAID

• AMD Athlon64 3000 MHz, socket 754 (yay!)

• 1 GB DDR RAM module, 400 MHz

• Samsung SP1614N ATA hard disk, 160 GB space, 8 MB cache

• Sapphire Ati Radeon 7000 64 Mb (did I say no compromises? OK, I know probably even an Etch-a-Sketch has more processing power than this thing, but I had to bring the price below the 550 EUR mark somehow)

• NEC ND3540 DVD±RW (I really really wanted a DVD-RAM drive, but… no compromises indeed)

• loudspeakers, monitor, mouse and keyboard cannibalized from my old computer, which will remain headless (hoping the BIOS won't complain)

The old computer will live on as a headless server, quietly humming in the dark. Pentium 2 350 MHz with 192 MB RAM should be quite enough for a Windows Server 2003, especially for mainly HTTP and CVS. For my main workstation I'll probably use Windows XP and run Windows Server 2003 in a virtual machine for testing… unless anyone has compelling reasons to do otherwise (do you?). And God bless MSDNAA for the free cool toys

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Getting some Work done at the moment (capital W as in paid), so I can rake up the money to buy a new computer after the Great Hard Disk Disaster, and hopefully get some work done before the testing session at school. Planned projects in descending order of priority:

1. ROX-U, a port of ReactOS to a fictional user-mode architecture. Basically, imagine being able to build and debug ReactOS from Visual Studio. Owes a lot, in concept and design, to the Linux equivalent, User-mode Linux.

   Will hopefully project ReactOS development into a new era. Or at least make for a cool Slashdot headline.

2. X/Plus, which I like to think as the ultimate UNIX® layer for ReactOS and Windows. Will mostly be a kernel hack, geared towards scalability and raw performance and loosely patterned after QNX.

   Strong design points will be interoperability with Win32 and compatibility with Cygwin, Microsoft Interix and Linux.

3. Porting Samba or Samba TNG, to finally give ReactOS a chance to internetwork with Windows machines.

4. Finalization of the mysterious codename: Cone project.

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