This is also about to change. Anyone observing the business scene today knows that e-mail is gaining fast. When it reaches critical mass, you can pull the plug on your fax machine. Certainly, most won't right away, but hardly anyone will install new fax equipment when they change locations or start a new business, so the effect will be that the demand for dedicated fax numbers will slowly abate. Add it all up and we won't need all the area codes and phone numbers we will have in ten years.
Generals are famous for fighting the last war's battles.
Java Virtual Machine Sandbox Fix Java is an interesting platform. It's a 6.3 meg download. Win 98 speeded this up a bit and Win 98 SE speeds it up even more by shutting down all programs simultaneously. Then Windows can hang. If you are having the problem, there is a patch that fixes things.