Most universities have full-duplex 100Mbit+, and at those speeds it's not your connection that's the bottleneck, it's the latency of getting your request to the server and the server's available bandwidth. I imagine most routers are smart enough not to completely saturate the pipe with a single user's connection.
> Avoiding the Microsoft tax[...]
For me, it is the multidesktop support and great terminal emulators (like terminator) which make linux a very good OS, supporting me to get things done.
[edit: OK - Missed the line about this topic in the original text. coffee.]
The one I mean is called gnome-terminator and is written in python: http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html https://launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator
2) He's got the money to pay for it.
3) It would be incredibly stupid of him to flagrantry violate copyright and commit a crime. Rick is many things, but stupid is not one of them.