Any system that runs a Linux 2.4.x kernel works. Check out the documentation on the ext3 homepage. It's really very easy to patch a 2.4.10 kernel and compile it with ext3 support. After you're done, just add journal data to your existing ext2 partitions. I did this from a readonly root partition, but you could also use a boot floppy. Make sure your/etc/fstab has entries with updated filesystem types, and reboot. Done.
Yes, Dvorak has been around for a while, and while some subjectively feel it's more comfortable and / or faster, there aren't really any reports proving that this goes in general. It is, like many other things, an individual preference. Remember that Qwerty wasn't only made to work with mechanical typewriters, it was also made to be really fast.
The Kinesis keyboards -- the advanced contoured ones -- have had the option to switch sides with a foot pedal for a few years now. That way you can easily do this kind of one-handed typing with either your left or your right hand. They're also available with Dvorak keys printed on the keycaps, and you can switch between Dvorak and Qwerty with the foot pedal if you want. I myself have the non-programmable contoured one, so I haven't been able to try all this out, but it ought to work really well. If you were wondering, I really like it, and speed-wise it's almost exactly the same as a flat keyboard for me.
For what it's worth, in the novel "Richter 10" by Mike McQuay and Arthur C. Clarke, they try to use nukes in a large engineering project. One guy wants to stop earthquakes (!) by fusing the tectonic plates with nuclear explosions deep, deep down where the blast won't do any damage to life on the surface. Quite the idea.
This list -- minus nanotechnology and other modernities -- reads almost exactly like a synopsis of Isaac Asimov's 1979 book "A Choice of Catastrophes", found here or here. It's an excellent read. The good doctor especially emphasized the importance of trying to deal with "domestic" problems (environmental issues, society, economy, overpopulation, allocation of resources) first, since there's really not that much we can do about straying black holes and stuff anyway, except colonize more planets -- which we can't do well unless we become a more organized species first. Well, we can keep an eye open for doomsday meteorites, as described in Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" and "The Hammer of God" (or a certain, really disgusting Hollywood film I won't mention), so let's do that too.
By the way, I read this book first when I was 15, and I remember being amazed by how well his explanation of black holes worked for me. I thought the ones in charge should put some of Asimov's writing into school textbooks, instead of the stuff they fed us back then:-).
Yes, or if you've found your true self, realized that there is no spoon, that gravity is just another rule, and decided to reorient yourself to the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis.
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Looks like somebody just ripped off typing injury FAQ. They probably did it a while ago too, because tifaq has more current links.
PECK@home?
Any system that runs a Linux 2.4.x kernel works. Check out the documentation on the ext3 homepage. It's really very easy to patch a 2.4.10 kernel and compile it with ext3 support. After you're done, just add journal data to your existing ext2 partitions. I did this from a readonly root partition, but you could also use a boot floppy. Make sure your /etc/fstab has entries with updated filesystem types, and reboot. Done.
Yes, Dvorak has been around for a while, and while some subjectively feel it's more comfortable and / or faster, there aren't really any reports proving that this goes in general. It is, like many other things, an individual preference. Remember that Qwerty wasn't only made to work with mechanical typewriters, it was also made to be really fast.
The Kinesis keyboards -- the advanced contoured ones -- have had the option to switch sides with a foot pedal for a few years now. That way you can easily do this kind of one-handed typing with either your left or your right hand. They're also available with Dvorak keys printed on the keycaps, and you can switch between Dvorak and Qwerty with the foot pedal if you want. I myself have the non-programmable contoured one, so I haven't been able to try all this out, but it ought to work really well. If you were wondering, I really like it, and speed-wise it's almost exactly the same as a flat keyboard for me.
Aw, didn't anyone find the field of naughts and ones forming a perfect circle in base eleven yet?
Like they said in User Friendly:
... Oops, wait, that was M$, not AOL.
For what it's worth, in the novel "Richter 10" by Mike McQuay and Arthur C. Clarke, they try to use nukes in a large engineering project. One guy wants to stop earthquakes (!) by fusing the tectonic plates with nuclear explosions deep, deep down where the blast won't do any damage to life on the surface. Quite the idea.
This list -- minus nanotechnology and other modernities -- reads almost exactly like a synopsis of Isaac Asimov's 1979 book "A Choice of Catastrophes", found here or here. It's an excellent read. The good doctor especially emphasized the importance of trying to deal with "domestic" problems (environmental issues, society, economy, overpopulation, allocation of resources) first, since there's really not that much we can do about straying black holes and stuff anyway, except colonize more planets -- which we can't do well unless we become a more organized species first. Well, we can keep an eye open for doomsday meteorites, as described in Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" and "The Hammer of God" (or a certain, really disgusting Hollywood film I won't mention), so let's do that too.
By the way, I read this book first when I was 15, and I remember being amazed by how well his explanation of black holes worked for me. I thought the ones in charge should put some of Asimov's writing into school textbooks, instead of the stuff they fed us back then :-).
Why would it have to be? Not to gloat or anything, but us Licq 0.85+ users have enjoyed OpenSSL encrypted client to client messaging for weeks now :-).
Yes, or if you've found your true self, realized that there is no spoon, that gravity is just another rule, and decided to reorient yourself to the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis.
Why disable it? Change it to something cool instead! Add to your ~/.Xdefaults
! Replace "Shop" with something useful:
Netscape*strings.22495:http://slashdot.org
Netscape*myshopping.labelString:/.
Netscape*myshopping.documentationString:Go to Slashdot
Netscape*myshopping.tipString:Slashdot