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Right - Moving the hands off the keyboard is what kills me. I had a quite acute back pain. It went away during a couple of weeks I worked at my laptop - So, I said, why not? I shopped and bought a desktop keyboard with a trackpad. Mind you, I got a quite bad one (Adesso), but it still helped me tremendously. Many years later, I got a Thinkpad as my main laptop. Loved the keyboard. And, when time came to retire the Adesso, I got a Thinkpad keyboard (with trackpad) for my desktop (I wrote about the experience, you can go to https://gwolf.org/node/4127 and https://gwolf.org/node/4130 for further details).
I just love them.

Right - Moving the hands off the keyboard is what kills me. I had a quite acute back pain. It went away during a couple of weeks I worked at my laptop - So, I said, why not? I shopped and bought a desktop keyboard with a trackpad. Mind you, I got a quite bad one (Adesso), but it still helped me tremendously. Many years later, I got a Thinkpad as my main laptop. Loved the keyboard. And, when time came to retire the Adesso, I got a Thinkpad keyboard (with trackpad) for my desktop (I wrote about the experience, you can go to https://gwolf.org/node/4127 and https://gwolf.org/node/4130 for further details).
I just love them.

A couple of months ago, I went through a fairly decent search through the keyboardspace to find a replacement one for my desktop. After a decent search for a desktop keyboard with a trackpad, I went for the Lenovo Thinkpad SK-8845 keyboard. I love it — Even though my mind still has to adjust every now and then to some not-so-minor layout changes (since the X230 I carry with me to everywhere-that's-not-my-desktop has the newer Thinkpad layout, while the SK-8845 has the classical one).
I just love Thinkpad keyboards :-)

A couple of months ago, I went through a fairly decent search through the keyboardspace to find a replacement one for my desktop. After a decent search for a desktop keyboard with a trackpad, I went for the Lenovo Thinkpad SK-8845 keyboard. I love it — Even though my mind still has to adjust every now and then to some not-so-minor layout changes (since the X230 I carry with me to everywhere-that's-not-my-desktop has the newer Thinkpad layout, while the SK-8845 has the classical one).
I just love Thinkpad keyboards :-)

The good thing about this is that you have been proven wrong already. The content industries (WTF?) report that illegal copying has grown to previously unimagined levels in the last two decades, but new published creations have grown also beyond predictions.

Authors do not necessarily get any prejudice from this — Part of this new creations are published using novel retribution schemes, such as direct payments, micropayments, etc. Many authors have embraced Creative Commons-like licensing.

If you understand Spanish, I invite you to listen to an interview with Rogerio Azcárraga, the owner of Orfeón, which basically manages all popular music distribution in Mexico. I found it really interesting — And chilling, how he speaks proudly about his business, but basically equates the work of the artists that work with him to selling... boxes of tomatos. And he also makes it clear how benefits for works recorded 50, 70 years ago (and still under copyright for many decades to come) are of benefit for him and his family, not for the creators (i.e. he speaks about Consuelito Velázquez, the author of many songs including world-hit "Bésame mucho", who died in 2005 — "My great-grandchildren will still live off her work")

I read something recently on this, it's (apparently) a French convention, presumably to make it clear which name is the surname. I don't know much about it, just something I saw on the Planet Debian RSS:

http://gwolf.org/blog/internationalizing-your-local-customs

As I understand it, Microsoft has deliberately restricted the systems that can be licensed with OEM WinXP by mandating that devices having screens smaller than something like 10" or 11", and no more than 1GB of RAM, a HDD no larger than 80GB, and a processor slower than 1.8GHz. (Someone feel free to correct me on the exact WinXP OEM Netbook licensing hardware restrictions, but I have read about there somewhere recently...)

I just bought an Acer Aspire One. Around US$420 (in Mexico, I understand it's cheaper in the US). It came with a 120GB HD, 1GB RAM, 1.6GHz Atom 270 CPU, and WinXP.

Now, with that said, I prefer working in /etc. It is very easy to work with and understand. But, when I try to explain to my father why he wants squid AND how to configure it, it is impossible. I simply do not put him on squid (really a shame). Now, if somebody could explain HOW to properly update windows via their KV DB ....

Webmin can administer squid.

On OSX you can use SquidMan.

WPM claims to administer Squid.

I'm currently installing a new program (March 1 '07) called Internet Cache Setup that claims to configure squid with a wizard. I guess I have to restart firefox, so I'll come back and let y'all know how it worked...

There's TEPATCHE for binary updates.http://www.gwolf.org/soft/tepatche/
I don't see Theo and all supporting binary updates. And this, I think, because of the security goal. But I may be wrong. For instance, remember when Debian's servers were cracked (about 1 1/2 year ago, AFAIK)? What if you installed a binary with malicious code?

But in fact, why don't they officially support binary updates? What's the "official" answer on this issue?

At least, that seems like a reasonable motivation. OTOH, system administrators probably will automate their own process of applying patches. There's the XML for vulnerabilities for non-base software (http://www.vuxml.org/openbsd/index.html, also.