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  1. Re:Leukemia on New Stem Cell Source - Your Bone Marrow · · Score: 1
    One of the uses of stem cell transplants for treating various types of cancers is to do very high dose chemotherapy to get the patient into remission, but this will also destroy the patients bone marrow. Stem cells are reintroduced after the high dose chemotherapy to re-establish the patient's bone marrow. The stem cells for this process can be obtained from the patient or from someone else that is a good enough match, and the stem cells are harvested from the donor's blood.


    My information is from my doctor and various sources that I encounted while fighting Hodgkin's Disease (now in remission), but I luckily didn't have to go through the high dose chemo, so I'm sure there are more details that many others could add.

  2. use some aliases on I Want Names for my Servers! · · Score: 1

    As the article mentioned, there are two goals behind a name. One goal is that you want to give your server some life and personality, and the other is that you want people to be able to find the services that they are looking for. One way to do both effectively is to use DNS aliases liberally.

    Set up your server with whatever name you want, but create an alias for each important service that you have. Creating an alias is cheap and it can also end up preventing the problems that happen when a service is moved from one server to another.

    As an example, I have a server named roland, but not many people call it that. To most people it is either ns, pop, imap, mail, mailhost or smtp. If I ever have to move mail service to another system I don't have to worry about notifying everyone that ywain now handles mail, as they're most likely using mail as the name already (and I just change where the alias points).