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Data mining with Rattle and R .... http://rattle.togaware.com/

Most librarians were probably not math majors, and are unlikely to be expert in statistics. But if you can work your way through the book, you may get enough insight into your data to ask good questions from a local Math department. No doubt some graduate student(s) can get a paper out of it, or at least some applied class project credit.

But if you don't understand what it is you are looking for, you probably won't coax them into figuring out what questions you ought to be asking. So start with the book.

While a free version is on the site, support the work by buying a hardcopy for the library ;>

I am actually curious as to how many librarians have math degrees. I have only met 2 so far; myself and my former professor back in grad school.

Data mining with Rattle and R .... http://rattle.togaware.com/

Most librarians were probably not math majors, and are unlikely to be expert in statistics. But if you can work your way through the book, you may get enough insight into your data to ask good questions from a local Math department. No doubt some graduate student(s) can get a paper out of it, or at least some applied class project credit.

But if you don't understand what it is you are looking for, you probably won't coax them into figuring out what questions you ought to be asking. So start with the book.

While a free version is on the site, support the work by buying a hardcopy for the library ;>

Often reason people get involved in statistical analysis is there is a body of data, and no clue where to start ... as inhabitants of the information age, and cheap storage ... there's lots of material and often little clue or thought to what the stored data might mean.

http://rattle.togaware.com/ is a website dedicated to "rattle" which is an R package (and togaware has a PDF book that's a great introduction) to a GUI based datamining tool.

Very handy, and the book is very lucid.

That's the doc-linux-text package in debian which install the HOWTOs in /usr/share/doc/doc-linux-text/HOWTO/.

By the way, debian also links to a desktop user/administrator guide on its web page http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/. And the debian documentation page has a lot of information http://www.debian.org/doc/

I don't know on other distributions, but it seems that the documentation in mandriva (linked from http://www2.mandriva.com/support/ ) is pretty good as well. Especially the advanced guide http://doc.mandriva.com/en/2009/Mastering-Manual/Mastering-Manual.html/.

I believe people never thought aout going to the main page of the distribution and click on the suport/documentation link.

At last, a phone from Linux fanatics! You can dial from the command line. Just type:

/etc/init.d/gsmd stop
echo 0 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/gta01-pm-gsm.0/power_on
echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/gta01-pm-gsm.0/power_on
cu -l /dev/ttySAC0

AT+CFUN=1
AT+CPIN="<pin>"
AT+COPS
ATD<number>

You are now connected. See how easy it is!

Nonsense. There are companies that install and maintain Debian specifically for Government like http://togaware.com/

I've used both - and once I realized that the wajig command makes apt-get user friendly, there is no comparrison (I tried Suse first, but now I use Debian).

See http://togaware.com/wajig/

and for a GUI tool - (sort of a "Add/or Remove programs" on steriods) look at synaptic.

Apt-get has been GPL from the start once again showing that Debian is the heart and soul of Linux/OSS/GPL/GNU.

Oh, I had the exact same idea as you! Except the year was 1996 and the site was Altavista. Couldn't live without it. Thank Goodness the government didn't nationalize and subsidize them making the emergence of Google as a successful, profitable, private, limited liability corporation next to impossible. But now that we have Google maybe we should reconsider your plan, I mean, nothing could ever get better than this, right?

Sure, Google may have come from nowhere to become profitable while providing a huge amount of value not only to the people who risked piles of time and money on the enterprise, but also to the public at large and their customers. But of course mutual benefit through voluntary association and private property just usually isn't possible in a capitalist system, this is an anomaly and it must be protected.

I also rely on Debian daily for job related activities; I know a lot of people who do. Maybe final decision making power for Debian should be removed from the technical committee and developers and transfered to an appropriations committee of the US Dept of Commerce. I mean, can we really risk such an important piece of technology to a bunch of private individuals. I even heard that one of the former DPLs played a major role at a major corporation in the motion picture industry, while he was involved with Debian!. We all know how greedy and untrustworthy that type is; there is no way of telling how he may have subverted Debian when he had control of it.

Ok now that I've pulled my tongue out of my cheek, could I ask you to put down the Adbusters and spend time every day really thinking about these wonderful things that we rely on and where they came from? Also think about the real freedom to innovate and how that could start to be lost.

And if you do the honourable thing and keep your emigration pact with Alec Baldwin, please don't come to Canada.