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Perhaps there was a "fountain pen" pen option for IBM's Crosspad

File sharing in general doesn't really work at all anymore, except within the university. Really high speeds (~5MB/s), but very low diversity.

I thought it was jesus

Dractula for Intellivision

Is your goal to hunt down and put an end Dracula's reign of terror? Hell no!

YOU are Dracula walking down the street of a suburban neighborhood. If you see eyes peeking out of a window, go up and knock on the door. If the person is dumb enough to come out, chase them around and bite them. Bite x number of people and get back to your coffin before sunrise.

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Dractula for Intellivision

Is your goal to hunt down and put an end Dracula's reign of terror? Hell no!

YOU are Dracula walking down the street of a suburban neighborhood. If you see eyes peeking out of a window, go up and knock on the door. If the person is dumb enough to come out, chase them around and bite them. Bite x number of people and get back to your coffin before sunrise.

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I've driven through Love Canal, all the deserted houses looking like people just stepped out, the lawns still mowed, the bright green grass over the clay containment facility, and new tract housing not to far away. Eerie.

75% have below-average IQs, and only about 5-10 percent are significantly above average (i.e. more than 105). Check the facts here. You can find more information on the common symptoms of autism here, here, and here.

Autism is a spectrum disorder, so your case is not out of the question, but would be exceptionally exceptionally rare. Nevermind that an IQ of 170 is approximately the top .05% of the population, so that's rare enough, but as you can see from the statistics quoted above, it is even rarer for someone autistic to be of that intelligence. Anyway, I hope you get a chance to read about the truth of autism, instead of the myths that you hold to be true.

blah, blah, blah, blah.

The U.S. post-secondary system is the best in the world without question. Not only by quality (9/10 of the worlds best institutions in any subject area will be in the U.S.) but by quantity. In the state I live in no student is more than 20 miles from a college, university, or branch location. This makes it easy for anyone who wants to get an eduction to get one. As a good example of how the worlds best come here one of our state schools that I wouldn't have even considered as a backup school has students from 157 nations!!!! Our secondary eduction may be lacking in some regards but we make up for it. Besides most comparisons are not on level grounds, a large percentage of the nations we are compared against do not have universally guarenteed secondary eduction. For instance both Japan and Germany have a system where only the top percentage of students will enter the college track eduction, these are the students that take the standardized tests, not the entirity of the population where in the U.S. every student who has not dropped out takes them.

Finally I would point out that the U.S. has largest percentage of the population in postsecondary education:
Per 100K population:
Korea 4,955
Japan 3,139
U.S. 5,398
U.K 3,126
France 3,617
Source
In fact the U.S. has nearly as many students in postsecondary education as the rest of the first world combined at over 15 million!

The QWERTY keyboard, which was actually designed to slow folks down (and to make typing "typewriter" fast!) is long overdue for death. If you want a speed boost or to give your wrists a break, try Dvorak. Check out Jared Diamond's "The Curse of QWERTY" on the matter.

Of course, I just started, which is why the above is written in zealot mode, and though I can attest to the comfort I haven't seen a speed boost yet. But I'll give it time...

The problem with ready-made solutions like TiVO is the lack of privacy and the lack of control. I don't want someone out there knowing what I watch, or being able to arbitrarily change the software running in my entertainment system.

I'm building a MythTV-based box to do PVR, watch DVDs, etc. Yes, it winds up being more expensive than running out and buying a commercial PVR. But it offers the same capabilities without giving up control.

(By "I am building" I mean that I have all of the software and supporting hardware installed on my desktop PC, and once I've gotten everything tweaked to my satisfaction I'll get a mini-ITX box and "deploy" it).

Actually, the curse was on BladeRunner:

Q: What is this "Blade Runner Curse"?

A: Someone once noticed that a number of the companies whose logos appeared in BR had financial difficulties after the film was released. Atari had 70% of the home console market in 1982, but faced losses of over $2 million in the first quarter of 1991. Bell lost it's monopoly in 1982. Pan-Am filed for bankruptcy protection in 1991. Soon after Blade Runner was released, Coca-Cola released their "new formula", resulting in losses of millions of dollars. It is interesting to note that since then, the Coca-Cola company has seen the biggest growth of any American company in history. Cusinart filed for bankruptcy protection in July 1989.

The full dope [PDF] on the importance of spreadability and pressure vs conductivity. Plain old lampblack and PEG.

Actually this lady blew all the thermal pastes out of the water! Better than copper,silver,gold,diamond, or carbon-nanotubes!

Hmm... shoulda Googles before making that post. Anyways, here's the #1 hit for "ISS Leak" on Google. Fairly on-topic stuff.

It was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA and GAT into law (after Clinton promised not to during his run for pres).

Thanks for giving the wealthiest 5% huge tax cuts so they'll never know near-poverty, like I do.

Everyone got tax cuts and that wealthiest 5% of Americans still pay nearly half or the US tax base. Also for someone who came close to six figures a couple of years ago to be near poverty now does not say allot about how you managed your money.

WTF is $1700 going to do towards tuition? nuttin

Its a good chunk of tuition at an Undergrad school you don't have a right to college money for school take the money which covers the fees and be glad. if you flip burgers 40hrs a week in the summer you can earn most of the years tuition and if you work 10-15 hrs a week in tuition like I did you'll get the rest and beer money to boot.

e first American president to START a war. The first American president who detained American citizens, in the United States

Lincoln did not start a war?, LBJ did not start a war?, Clinton did not drag the US into Kosovo? BTW Lincoln also detained without charging people, and without due process but why let history interfere with your rant.

Do you know that we are holding over 660 men at Camp X-Ray, in cages, like dogs?

Really being allowed to practice, your religion, 3 squares a day, seeing an imam is being treated like a dog? I am against camp x-ray but moronic exaggeration is not going to help.

So, thanks to the 49% of the country that did vote for Bush, and those who still support him, we have a hitler in office.

Its called the constitution, and the Electorial college system, gets over it. Its designed to make urban and rural area equally politically important if Gore had managed to win his own state it would not have mattered. That's it compare Bush to Hitler, its so clear to me now Gross use of slander for those you politically disagree with has shown me the light..

My job in IT, and countless like them are disappearing - and whats most disturbing is that our industry is only 35 years old! Only 10 of which did our industry emerge from specialized functions to become an sizable group, and already we are sent out. So thank you, America, for sitting back, watching your reality TV and 4 hours of sportscenter every night and allowing all this to happen. It's the fault of both parties and both wings, Republicans wrote NAFTA/GAT and Bill Clinton Signed it. Bill Clinton allowed the Chinese to get computer and rocket technology that should have stayed secret. And finally its your fault for bitching about it on slashdot and not registering voters, and pumping for a third party candidate who cares about the US (this excludes the Greens).

Calculators are why students can't do math by themselves anymore. Whoever had the idea that in my sophomore year of high school, I should be required to purchase a TI-89 calculator should be shot.

In my senior year of high school, I took calc 1 and 2 from a decent state school. This course also integrated the TI-89.

Once I got to college, I entered the land of multi-variable calculus. Since the school I'm going to is a high-end private institution, of course they don't allow us to use calculators at all in Calc 3. Silly me. I haven't taken an integral since we first learned about each method of integration. Why? "here's how you can take an integral on your TI-89" were the first words out of the teacher's mouth as soon as we'd learned the basic concepts.

So I spent the first two weeks of school here cramming calculus 1 and 2 into my head *again*. 2-3 hours a night just to get caught up with the rest of the students (often sophomores), who had learned it right.

Now I shun the calculator for all purposes except straight calculations (in a physics course, for example). For mathematics either you can do it with your head/on paper, or it's a big enough task that you need a full fledged CAS. There's really no place for a calculator in math.

Brian

If you ever get a tour there, it's like walking through a programmer's playground.

Come on, everybody knows that like several other companies, PanAM fell to the BladeRunner curse:

Someone once noticed that a number of the companies whose logos appeared in BR had financial difficulties after the film was released. Atari had 70% of the home console market in 1982, but faced losses of over $2 million in the first quarter of 1991. Bell lost it's monopoly in 1982. Pan-Am filed for bankruptcy protection in 1991. Soon after Blade Runner was released, Coca-Cola released their "new formula", resulting in losses of millions of dollars. It is interesting to note that since then, the Coca-Cola company has seen the biggest growth of any American company in history. Cusinart filed for bankruptcy protection in July 1989.

From the BladeRunner Faq (one of many copies)

Grab my instructions , and the patch .

Grab my instructions , and the patch .

Here at the University at Buffalo, our Student Association has created their own Book Exchange system in what appears to be ASP. This is probably the best solution, as each college can customize their own system to their specific needs. (I'm not too sure I'm big on ASP, being a PHP fan myself, but it seems to work out well.)

The TiVo Client Device is of necessity a closed system. As a service provider, we must prevent theft of service, so TiVo pays a great deal of attention to security of the device and resistance to hacking. Additionally, we sell the TCD at a price that provides a net margin to retailers, but no profit to us. Our profits come from providing service to each device over time, rather than from up-front costs.

I think it is interesting that TiVo says they pay a lot of attention to the security of the device. That is true now, but with the first TiVo devices, getting a BASH prompt on the device turned out to be relatively easy. On boot a menu was available on the serial port with a hardcoded password. Using that password you could make all kinds of changes to the way the machine started up.

He also metions talks about people getting around using the service. For years, the TiVo hacking community has known how to partially emulate the service by creating slice files and manually loading them onto the device. Recently hackers have figured out how to get an unmodified TiVo to use a service emulator. What's interesting about these development efforts is that they are not putting TiVo out of business.

In the article, he makes no mention of the goodwill that TiVo has fostered with their users, even their hackers. Soon after TiVo was created, Richard Bullwinkle, their former "Chief Evangelist" started talking to people on bulletin boards. He was always very helpful and forthcoming, with only minor exceptions. He wouldn't talk about bypassing the TiVo service and he wouldn't talk about extracting video from the device. If you didn't talk about those things, he was perfectly happy to help out. Although TiVo was in business to make money through their service, they didn't screw over people who didn't want to subscribe. That's such a treat from a for-profit company. Imagine Microsoft, who also sells their set-top device at a loss, treating customers who don't want to use theirs for gaming without hostility.

When Andrew Tridgell, (the same guy who created Samba and rsync) figured out how to create TiVo slice files so he could use the machine in Australia, it was probably this goodwill which made him choose to not release the info to the general public. Instead, it remained a closely guarded secret.

Today, years later, the people who have followed in Tridge's footsteps, have refused to destroy TiVo's revenue stream. They have been very careful to try to make sure that only people who can't get TiVo service in their area are allowed to get around it.

I think the goodwill that TiVo has is partly because of their general attitude towards their customers (and towards the hacker community) and partly the fact they used open-source software, and followed the license requirements. And, it is this, not their security measures, which have ensured that they've maintained a revenue stream -- despite using the "razor and razor blades" pricing model.

I just wish Mr. Barton hadn't used a loaded term "service theft" to describe people who are using their TiVos without subscribing to the service. That term would be appropriate if people were downloading TiVo data without having a subscription, but not people who are simply choosing not to subscribe and are finding alternatives.

Chuckle.

Just the other day I saw a gift someone sent my mother. A package of Dead Sea Mineral Mud. You can buy it here, $22.50 for an 8.5 ounce package, plus shipping.

Or you can get it here for $6.25, plus shipping. Chuckle.

I started laughing hystericly when I saw it. It's a freaking bag of MUD! And the Dead Sea is called the DEAD sea for a reason. Nothing can live in it.

It makes me think I should go into bussiness selling Love Canal Mineral Mud. (For those who aren't familiar with Love Canal, it is the most famous toxic waste dump in the United States. Homes and an elementry school were built on a top of a toxic dump.)

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Perhaps the slyest bit of slight-of-hand was the claim that the cost of supporting Linux users would not be significantly less than for Windows users. As support, the author quotes somebody saying that Linux required about as much support staff as Unix -- then just guesses (ignoring contrary reports) that the same would obtain vs. supporting Windows desktops.

Another is the suggestion that working well on older hardware actually counts against Free software. The author says, for instance, "After warranty support is over, many enterprises choose not to repair broken PCs, but to replace them with new ones." This is in large part because the repaired PC would not be able to run current MS software versions anyhow.

Similarly, the author suggests that keeping older hardware means managing many more varieties of hardware. Yet, it is not old, well-understood hardware that is hard to manage, but the forced influx of new hardware needed to run new versions of software. Absent that forced turnover, an enterprise may reasonably stick with substantially the same hardware configuration (with optional upgrades in clock speed and storage capacity) until there are compelling, objective reasons to switch.

Equally damning are the omissions. The author carefully avoids mentioning lock-in, and never mentions the possibility of obtaining support from independent (and possibly local, and competing) third parties, or from the in-house expertise that can only develop with Free software. For a good comparison, consider the SUNY Faculty Senate resolution published at http://orange.math.buffalo.edu/csc/resolution2_apr il2003_approved.html.

I could go on and on, but the point is that the opposition has become more sophisticated. This is more clever than "Free software is a cancer that threatens the American Way", but the intent and the conclusion are the same. Now the strategy is "make minor concessions, but sow seeds of fear, doubt, and confusion." The falsehoods reveal the true intent.

Try to guess which Gartner customer wrote this report.

ERm.. ok from now on we preview!

Here is the mirror.

I posted the whole thing on my school space, for anyone who wants a great read:

My Fake Job

For a website that I manage, the numbers with this methodology are: 89% visitors running MSIE, and 93.91% visitors running Windows (and 3% running Macs, and 0.5% using Linux).

YMMV.

Elbereth - your tirade does not become you. If you don't grok unix/linux/bsd, or don't care for our inside jokes, kindly keep it to yourself.

Xerithane - Linux is Posix compliant, just as BSD and the original AT&T System V. Per http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~smgallo/SEpaper/node14. html: "In 1968, AT&T's Bell Labs began development on the Unix operating system. Shortly thereafter, many hardware vendors had developed their own flavor of Unix for their particular machines, which made porting software between platforms difficult. Recognizing the need for a standard to make porting applications between operating systems simpler, the IEEE developed POSIX in 1988 and in 1990 it became International Standard ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 [14]. The United States Government has adopted POSIX as a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS 151) inspiring system vendors to do the same. The list of vendors that have announced support for POSIX includes AT&T, Control Data Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Grumman Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.

POSIX defines a standard way for an application program to obtain basic services from the operating system. It describes a set of functions derived from AT&T UNIX (System V) and Berkeley Standard Distribution UNIX (BSD). All POSIX-conforming systems must implement these functions, and programs that follow the POSIX standard use only these functions to obtain services from the operating system and the underlying hardware [14].

Although POSIX is based on AT&T and BSD UNIX, it is not an operating system itself. It simply defines an interface between software and their libraries. This allows non-UNIX operating systems to conform to the POSIX standard."

And from http://search390.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid 10_gci214309,00.html more details: "Informally, each standard in the POSIX set is defined by a decimal following the POSIX. Thus, POSIX.1 is the standard for an application program interface in the C language. POSIX.2 is the standard shell and utility interface (that is to say, the user's command interface with the operating system). These are the main two interfaces, but additional interfaces, such as POSIX.4 for thread management, have been developed or are being developed. The POSIX interfaces were developed under the auspices of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

POSIX.1 and POSIX.2 interfaces are included in a somewhat larger interface known as the X/Open Programming Guide 4.2 (also known as the "Single UNIX Specification" and "UNIX 95"). The Open Group, an industry standards group, owns the UNIX trademark and can thus "brand" operating systems that conform to the interface as "UNIX" systems. IBM's OS/390 is an example of an operating system that includes a branded UNIX interface."

So, you are showing your ignorance by grousing over nil null's comment.

At SUNY Buffalo, to get anything off the campus network, we have to authenticate to the firewall using our unique IT account. The firewall, in turn, keeps a log of all the authetications. This way, we can track usage by user, rather than ip or mac address - no matter what machine the user was using, or in what building. When we find a machine spreading klez, it's a relatively simple task to look up the user that was on that machine at that time, and email that user directly.

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Doing a quick look on the web, I incidentally came upon quite a few astronomy sites about projecting stereo images, but the results always came out about the same: The cost of a "low cost" VR system runs around $20 grand. Cheap glasses that use a shutter effect seem to run at about $200. But, well, use your own judgement. This is just about a half hour of research:

1. One VR system developed as a college project
2. Very informative, astronomy-centric discussion on building a VR system
3. List of current VR product supplier

I don't think it's unreasonable that foreign students be restricted from participating. After all, it's my tax dollars paying for this, and I would expect my government to provide for their own citizens before some foreigners who presumably will take their knowledge back to their home countries.

Well, except for one teeny itty bit of fact: most of american brains come from abroad

If the U.S. start barring foreign students from high profile/risk projects, they will go elsewhere and the brain drain will crawl to a stop.

Then, maybe, we can count on the fine US school system to pick up the slack :)

A big thank you to the tautologous microbob!

And a special holiday message just for you.

It's here for you!

Check this shit out. Funny stuff.

Unfortunatly, there are idiots around who do cut corners. It's essential that whenever a dangerous substance is handled, it's almost impossible for it to be mishandled. Not just idiot proof, because idiots are so ingeious. This of course applies regardless if the dangerous substance is nuclear, or "just" chemically dangerous.

but to never let it dial home is important... see here for a detailed description of the hell people that do not subscribe deal with.. and the newest TiVO's now state boldy... "REQUIRES A SUBSCRIPTION" the text that talks about using it without is now gone.

Not to be rude, but this is hilarious.

FIrst no mention of single instance storage. The money you save in licensing you'll spend in increased storage costs.

Please tell me you're joking. How much space do you think the average email server saves using this? At any rate Cyrus supports this, see http://winnie.acsu.buffalo.edu/doc/overview.html#s ingleinstance . Now I really wish people would stop bringing up that stupid buzzword.

Second where is the server based mail storage? Again the money you save on licensing you'll spend backing up mail downloaded on users' computers or home folders.

Thats a basic function of IMAP . You really should research this stuff.

Third, I didn't read anything about a web interface to read your mail like Outlook Web Access.

Ever heard of IMP or squirrellmail? http://www.squirrelmail.org/ How did you get moded +5??

Backups are the same scenario. Actually with Cyrus, you can simpley change the ACL on the mailbox to admin only if you want to prevent access and not delete it. Cyrus has it's entire admin functionality exposed as a PERL module so that you can script the server directly to do what the hell you want when a employee is terminated.

OpenLDAP is just as easy to back up. A simple LDIF dump, or copy the db files.

Both these packages are rock solid. I mean months and months with absolutely *zero* downtime, except for upgrades, and even then with failover the users never notices a thing. I've managed several. Including Cyrus in an ISP environment.

+5 ??!! LOL

Aside from that, only the CIT (computing and information technology, that provides computing for the general public) are Windows. SENS (science and engineering node services) maintains a mix of Solaris (public) and SGI (engineering majors) boxen, and the CS servers run Solaris as well. But I get the impression that I wouldn't like Solaris nearly as much if I hadn't gotten a Linux box to play with back when I still went to the pure-Windows Jamestown Community College.

• Australia
  
• ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/iso/
• Austria
  
• ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Vienna)
• 
  Czech Republic
  
• ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/iso/
• http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Brno)
• 
  France
  
• ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Lyon)
• ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Nancy)
• 
  United States
  
• ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake /iso/ (California)
• ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/iso (NY)
• ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/iso/ (Illinois)

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/iso/

Austria

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Vienna)
Czech Republic

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/iso/

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Brno)
France

ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Lyon)

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Nancy)
United States

ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake /iso/ (California)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/iso (NY)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/iso/ (Illinois)

Where are some mirrors for users to d/l Mandrake 9.0 ISO's?

Hm. I wanted to do the obvious and point you to the mirror list at Mandrake. However, Mandrake seems to be slashdotted, which surprises me somewhat. Oh well. Instead, try downloading it from this place.

I built it overnight (takes a while on an iBook), and posted it up for all to enjoy. It's actually from CVS a little after the release, so it has some goodies like proxy settings in the GUI :)

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~dmorriso/phoenix/index .html

But in the short term youre probably right, now in the long term I think you will see far more good comeout of nano tech than bad. Many of the supercomputers we use today for medical study (like the one they just put in at UB would not exist if not for the military and its initial interest in computing for crypto/artillery calculation 50 years ago.

For the same reason I think money should be pured into NASA, somehting which may be developed and be way too expensive for people to use today will be the personal computers, velcro, felt tip pens of tommorow.

Austria

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Vienna)
Czech Republic

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-iso/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake-iso/i586/ (Prague)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke-iso/i586/
France

ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Lyon)

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake-iso/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke-iso/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake-iso/i 586/ (bayreuth)
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake-iso/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake-iso/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake-iso/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Dalarma)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e-iso/i586/
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake-iso/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake-iso/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.software.umn.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mand rake-iso/i586/ (Minnesota)

ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandra ke-iso/i586/ (Tennessee)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake-iso/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke-iso/i586/

ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i5 86/ (Virgina)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke-iso/i586/ (Hawaii)

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
Austria

ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
Belgium

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Costa Rica

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Czech Republic

ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
Denmark

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Finland

ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
France

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
Greece

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
Hong Kong

ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Ireland

ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
Latvia

ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
Poland

ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
Portugal

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Singapore

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
Slovakia

ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
Spain

ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
Switzerland

ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Turkey

ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

I think you're quite wrong in this regard. I'm not a physician, but I am a software engineer. Like you, I am disappointed in "expert systems" and their usefulness in a professional environment. However, that only means we should spend more time tailoring the tools. In my experience, you have to spend time and energy, to earn time and efficiency later.

You think in too narrow a scope - diagnosis. A database has everything to show you. You can build reports, compare hospitals, doctors, overall weekly-results, patients, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, medical history, etc, etc. It's a completely new and automated way of gaining actual statistical data. From that you can advance medical science by adding new knowledge every day!

Have a few jobs run on the database in the background to look for anomalies. I think what we might find will thoroughly surprise you.

But just like in the days of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis doctors continue to have high egos and big barriers to change. Because you know it all, don't you?

A. The loads on the right and left hands are equalized.

B. The load on the home (middle) row is maximized.

C. The frequency of alternating hand sequences is maximized and the frequency of same-finger typing is minimized.

If you look at QWERTY, you'll see that A is not satisfied very well at all - many of the most commonly used letters such as A,S,D,F,E,R,T and C are in the left hand. (The article actually states that QWERTY fails at this - 57% to 43% balance between hands.) Condition B is certainly not satisfied either - look at the preponderance of vowels and common letters in the top row. The last condition is the only one that QWERTY comes close to satisfying, but even then try typing words like "exaggerated" or "monopoly" (thanks to Jared Diamond and his April 1997 Discover Magazine article). Dvorak's layout is, in fact, optimized for all three of these conditions, using careful analysis of letter frequency, finger movement, and letter combinations. Note the presence of all the vowels on the home row, and common consonants like "snthd" on the home row of the right hand. This makes it highly likely that after the typist uses a vowel he will be switching to the opposite hand (likely the home row) to type the next letter.

What I'm getting at is that Dvorak's advantage may be more in hand/wrist comfort than anything else. I'll admit that claims of increased speed using Dvorak are probably not persuasive enough to make the argument for superiority. The article's strongest point is showing that typing speed varies little as a function of the layout of the keys. I'm willing to buy that anyone can type about as fast on any layout using the modern "shift" style keyboard. But speed isn't the only consideration. I haven't read or heard about many studies making the claim for reduced RSI while using Dvorak, but I'd guess that it's true. Anyone who's used the layout can confirm that typing on it has a flow and continuity that QWERTY cannot match - every time I'm forced to use a QWERTY keyboard I'm struck by how much my fingers are stretching all around to find the letters (and yes, I can still touch-typed in QWERTY after a minute or two of warm-up and finger-conversion - it's kind of like being keyboard bilingual). With Dvorak typing is just more natural feeling, like a ball rolling down a smooth hill. QWERTY is like rolling that same ball down a flight of steps. And if you gain a little extra typing speed out of it, all the better! (For what it's worth, the world typing speed record has been held by Dvorak typists for many years now.)

This is not some evangelical manifesto urging everyone to change layouts - but if you do make the switch, I promise you won't be disappointed. Both Windows and Mac have built-in Dvorak capability, and switching between the two is just a simple key combination. I've found that Mac is a bit more cooperative in this regard, but Windows is passably good. It's easy to fall into the trap of "well, if most of the world uses it, it must be the best thing out there." Doesn't hold true for Windows, does it?

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• United States and Canada

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• Europe

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  ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME
  ftp://ftp.codefactory.se/pub/GNOME/
  ftp://ftp.dataplus.se/pub/GNOME/
  ftp://ftp.dit.upm.es/pub/GNOME/
  ftp://ftp.no.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/
  ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/X11/GNOME/
  ftp://ftp.tr.gnome.org/pub/GNOME

• South America

  ftp://linux.cem.itesm.mx/pub/mirrors/gnome.org