User: e**(i pi)-1

more crucial: good keyboard

On: Beyond Dvorak via Genetic Algorithm

The idea to have a program learn the best keyboard
layout is nice- I like the "evolve" program.

The optimal keyboard depends however on the chosen
language as well as the type of documents (running
"evolve" through latex, html, pure text docs gives
different results). Therefore, not only every user
will have a different optimal keyboard, the optimal
choice will also depend on the occasion. It might
be more efficient to add suitable shortcuts to the
editor vi or emacs and spend the time learning those.

I personally find it more crucial to have a good
keyboard (prefer the "happy hacking" keyboard), where
some keys like Esc, Ctr, Tab etc are at the correct places
and no unnecessary keys bother me.

I also have already quite a bit of trouble to type
on a European keyboard, where for example y and z
are replaced. Takes me always hours to adapt even
to such small changes.

open local files

On: Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here

Great release! I would switch completely
to mozilla if there were not an annoying issue
which had been in the bug list for years: in
linux, mozilla still does not open local
files like

mozilla help.html

(galeon does this correctly). While a little wrapper

#!/bin/sh
dir_name=`pwd`;
absolute_filename="file://$dir_name/$1"
mozilla $absolute_filename

can help, I hope this is soon no more necessary.

Re:Kill-ustrator ??

On: Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name

Why not name it Kill-Illustrator?