Amusingly when "The Wright Report" (uk daytime TV show) reported this, the host Matthew Wright said "Scientology is a cult" straight to the camera just to provoke them.

Damm, I'm with Virgin, and was thinking of moving to Be. More that it's more convenient for the house I'm moving to. I hope that this puiblicity for them does increase the signup time :-)

What's even better than reading him, is to go to listen to the guy talk. He's got one of the most listenable voices around (..and I'm not talking about music). I went along when he did the release tour for his Modern Antiquarian book. He's just so full of enthusiasm and delight, that he could almost convince me that there is a god (hint of irony here).

With regard to the first comment, my HTPC (Mythtv) has a wireless keyboard with a trackball on the right and similar left/right mouse buttons on the left. These make is fairly easy to hold the keyboard and navigate with the mouse. Not sure what the benefit is for a laptop, but it does work.

One thing you might want to bear in mind is SSH is not enabled out of the box (for rsync over ssh) and you need to install a plugin for root ssh access. If you want SSH access at user level, then you do need a small amount of hacking.

Also the CPU of this machine is quite low (quite rightly so for a low power device). If you are using Rsync over SSH then the speed is pretty poor (I get around 1.5Mb/sec on a LAN). Still faster than your DSL connection I guess.

The box is a great little beasty. It is on the expensive side, but the user forums are excellent, and Netgear's acquisition seems not to have damaged this. I love mine.I can stream HD (720p) (well NFS mounted, not streamed) to my Mythtv box without issues.

Finally I wonder why news of this device has hit Slashdot recently. The device has been about for a year or so.