Sexy little (well medium i guess) device. As a software developer though I cannot see it replacing my laptop (currently a msi u123). I don’t see writing code on a ipad.
Also, it would not be replacing my phone. I guess we will be able to use skype (or skype-like services) on the 3G models. But still, the form factor of the iPad does not make for a convenient phone.

I do see the iPad as the dream machine for bloggers (though I’m surprised there is no camera) and makes an excellent “couch computer”. I believe in many people’s minds, it competes in the iPod touch market.

Do we see Ubuntu or Android ever being ported to this device? That could make things interesting.

I recently found myself considering moving one of our servers to the Rackspace Cloud. I needed to get an estimate of the cost for bandwidth usage.
I remembered I had installed vnstat on that server when it was deployed.  This made the bandwidth calculation completely simple:

Just have vnstat give me the bandwidth sliced by Month:
$ vnstat -m

eth0 / monthly

month rx | tx | total
————————-+————–+————————————–
Aug ‘09 7.00 GB | 8.48 GB | 15.48 GB %::
Sep ‘09 14.98 GB | 15.75 GB | 30.72 GB %%%::::
Oct ‘09 31.70 GB | 14.79 GB | 46.50 GB %%%%%%%%:::
Nov ‘09 45.46 GB | 14.64 GB | 60.10 GB %%%%%%%%%%%:::
Dec ‘09 73.71 GB | 15.40 GB | 89.11 GB %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%::::
Jan ‘10 66.25 GB | 16.89 GB | 83.14 GB %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%::::
————————-+————–+————————————–
estimated 94.97 GB | 24.21 GB | 119.18 GB
The install of vnstat on Ubuntu can be done with apt-get:
sudo apt-get install vnstat
Remember, once installed to initiate you vnstat DB.  Just execute vnstat and it will tell you how.   vnstat -u -i eth0 in my case

Then check the man page for the command to see all the different ways you will be able to slice and dice your network data