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Sysadmins - What's in Your MOTD?
permaculture asks: "This is a 'knowledge management' issue, on a University network. For many years we've had a network 'Message of the Day' that appears when any network user logs in. MOTD lists planned service outages for maintenance, progress on current issues, upcoming holidays, and other items that affect network users. Recently, this has been replaced by a page that announces general University business such as Open weeks, upcoming awards etc. There's a link on the page to the network MOTD that used to greet every user immediately after login. Does your network have a 'Message of the Day' that appears at login? Is it a Corporate business page, entirely related to network services, or something else entirely?" -
Modernizing the Save Icon?
floppy-less asks: "In nearly every modern GUI, the floppy disk icon is used to symbolize saving files. With the fate of floppy disks becoming apparent, what will become of the esteemed 'Save to Disk' icon? Will it become a CD-R? a hard drive? a portrait of Jesus?" -
If You Didn't Need Money, What Would You Do?
permaculture had this simple but philosophical query to run by you all, today: "I was once asked this question: 'If you didn't have to work for money, what would you do with your time?' I've put that question to many people since I first heard it, and got a lot of different answers. It seems to me that the answer to this question is what you should be aiming for even though you do have to spend most of your time earning a crust." -
Cell Phone Manufacturers acknowledge risk
Lisa writes " Cell phone manufacturers have admitted that cell phones pose a health threat. Usage has been linked to brain tumors, damage to immune systems and memory loss. This is really scary..." Update!: Just Testing sent us a link to a " (sadly degraded) image from a movie (he) produced using matlab. It shows the electric field from a mobile phone propagating through a simulated human head. The antenna is on the right. You can see the amplitude of the waves decreasing in the direction of propagation as energy is dissipated in the brain tissue." In related news, the new Iridium satellite phone service will badly affect radio-astronomy everywhere in the world.
