Encrypted pdf? IBC 2006 on CD is pretty nice. Single pdf file, no difficulty opening it, printing, copy/pasting snippets out, or saving a backup copy or anything like that. I miss not having a paper copy to annotate, but the ease of searching... man, that's nice.
I'm still waiting for mine but the buzz I am getting on alt.electrical engineering newsgroup is the CD sux big time. One guy said his, new out of the box disk, had a hacked serial number and it would not authorize. He had to jump through hoops with NFPA to get it going. As much as I change hardware I don't want something I have to screw with every time I do something to my PC. That is why I won't load XP (even though I still have one sitting on my desk). I hear the DRM on Vista was so onerous Microshaft had to back off a bit. It was doorstopping perfectly legal machines.
Microsoft backed off on the doorstopping of XP and- just this week- Vista, too. At worst, you'll be blocked from automatic updates. XP with service pack 2 is an extremely nice operating system
