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cinorhc writes "An article at Space Flight Now reports on a study of some Stanford researchers that say the universe will collapse in on itself in a mere 10-20 billion years, resulting in "the Big Crunch". That puts us in the middle of the uni's life cycle. The generally accepted theory as of now is the universe will expand forever, leaving isolated galaxies all alone in a nearly infinite sea of darkness. If these guys are right, we should see galaxies blue shift any day now. I personally prefer a universe that will collapse in on itself and then re-Big Bang so to speak, circle of life on a grand scale."

Torey asks: "I recently acquired a Fujitsu 985TX laptop which I was informed was very Linux compatible. Well, so far it appears to be only 90% compatible. The built in modem appears to be a PCI modem (lspci reports it is a Lucent Microelectronics modem), which I have experienced to be highly unsupported in the kernel. Has anyone been successful in getting one of these to work? The PnP tools didn't notice it either. Any help would be greatly appreciated." What other PCI modems are problematic with Linux? Which ones do you all recommend?