I think I'm in a similar situation and I have a question:
how does one switch careers to Lean, ITIL or CMMI without necessary experience under his belt?
I read somewhere that at least 30% of all jobs ads in UK is fake ... I don't know if it's true or not ...
How do you tell the difference between fake job ad and real thing?
I second netbook OS suggestion. They should port Haiku to popular netbooks e.g. acer aspire one, asus eeepc, MSI wind, so that anyone could run it without any problems.
This way there is no hardware hell(at least not that big) and you get usable system for the masses.