Someone explained Genetic Algorithms to me a few months ago as they were being considered by one of the groups at work.
There are times when I think that another interesting approach would be to just leave a machine on the net that I cuold use when I needed it. I really don't mind an 8-pound laptop though lately I've been buying more desktop equipment. Even thought about buying a desktop for the office though it would have to be cheap. I could just toss in another vid card into my office machine but I'd still like a machine to put my own stuff on.
Is she going to run Win64 on it?
One other thing was that I was considering dumping Kanotix on my machine (I never use it) and using VMWare. I'm just a bit worried that dumping the partition will mess up GRUB and my ability to boot Windows.