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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ is the new link to the Metalab archive.

Uh well. For one, most of the Amish live on some of the most fertile soil in the United States.

Fertile soil is created, by nature and by good husbandry, and destroyed by bad farming practices. The world has lost half of its topsoil in the last 50 years. This is a result of technology being applied intensively to the land for the purposes of making money.

Technology is a tool, like a hammer or an explosive, what counts is how it's used. This planet could support a population of 12,000,000,000, using essentially 19th century technology. The changes would have to be social and political.

Though I sincerely doubt the indians were able to support high population densities given their primitive agricultural skills.

I know little of Kansas (sorry, Toto), but in the Australian outback one family often struggles to make a living (grow enough to feed themselves and earn enough to pay for other necessities), on land that once supported more than 200 Aboriganal Australians. As for the American Indians "primitive agricultural skills", we are talking about a people who lived in harmony with their land for thousands of years. When you can support yourself in a truly sustainable way, perhaps then you can indulge in looking down on other people. It still won't be a nice thing to do though.
- Derwen

There are Solaris package archives available, such as the Solaris Package Archive and Freeware4Sun, and Freeware for Solaris. And if you really want to get something compiled and running, you can do it. But overall, my Linux software install experience has been much more convenient.

On the other hand, if I were in the high-end-server market rather than the geek market, there would probably be many apps I could run better, more conveniently, or only on Solaris. And I guess that's the market Sun is mostly going after.

Another issue is that Solaris is more bloated (in terms of disk usage) than other free Unixes, in my experience.

as you can see on our collection page, we chose the dewey system over the LC one

yeah, this guy and his elite team of hackers, who keep metalab up and running.

and, oh yeah, moderators, mod this one up.

I did some digging on google, and managed to find (amidst all the alt.science conspiracy theories) a few interesting things:

• a summary of various experiments around the world, with widely differing reported results
• a paper from one such experiment
• a paper describing (in lots of geeky detail) the theory behind cold fusion

For all the noise and fury around CF, the one thing that seems really clear is that a) no one really understands what's supposedly going on, and b) the results are not reproducible in any kind of reliable fashion.

I did some digging on google, and managed to find (amidst all the alt.science conspiracy theories) a few interesting things:

• a summary of various experiments around the world, with widely differing reported results
• a paper from one such experiment
• a paper describing (in lots of geeky detail) the theory behind cold fusion

For all the noise and fury around CF, the one thing that seems really clear is that a) no one really understands what's supposedly going on, and b) the results are not reproducible in any kind of reliable fashion.

I did some digging on google, and managed to find (amidst all the alt.science conspiracy theories) a few interesting things:

• a summary of various experiments around the world, with widely differing reported results
• a paper from one such experiment
• a paper describing (in lots of geeky detail) the theory behind cold fusion

For all the noise and fury around CF, the one thing that seems really clear is that a) no one really understands what's supposedly going on, and b) the results are not reproducible in any kind of reliable fashion.