This is an urban myth. Pacemakers are generally unaffected by cellphones, microwaves, etc.
I *think* you're half right. The newer pacemakers are not affected IIRC but some of the very first models were.
To quote from Kumar and Clark: Clinical Medicine 4th Edition (Page 657):
"Complications are few but include the following:
<snip> Electromagnetic interference: This is not common with modern pacemakers. High-tension cables, high-energy radars, arc-welding equipment and some medical quipment, such as MRI machines and lithtripters, may transiently inhibit the output of a pacemaker or convert it to intereference mode (continous pacing despite and adequate underlying rhythm). Digital cellular telephones may cause similar problems, but only when the telephone is help within 30cm of the pacemaker"
This is not medical advice; I am not a Doctor (or for the Americans, I am not a Physician)
Any spelling mistakes in the above quote are due to my inability to type.
Two quite nice features of Hydro's service are the fact that they don't charge a connection fee and their minimum service term is only ONE MONTH!! That's as opposed to the minimum one year all of the cable and ADSL providers insist upon.
That's not quite true. With the wires-only products quite a few ISPs in the UK do a 3 month minimum contract now.
> So, in a while, you might get a growing colony on Mars of humans
> that are developed differently (due to the gravity), with radically
> different life experiences and are also unable to interact directly with humans from Earth.
And really, really inbred.
Er.../me looks at the British Royal Family, then the above post, then back again.
If this really bothers you then use the USA mirror (distrowatch.linuxfromscratch.org). I can definately confirm that this server runs Linux (LinuxFromScratch, not surprisingly).
That's nice to hear;-) The guys on #lfs (irc.linuxfromscratch.org) were pleased to hear that said as well!
Strangely, we actually host a distrowatch.com mirror on the linuxfromscratch.org server. (distrowatch.linuxfromscratch.org). Nice to hear the positive comments about LFS - thanks all.
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We have a copy of this pinned up in the lab at University: http://danny.oz.au/danny/humour/phd_lotr.html
Personally I especially like the part about supervisors disappearing (and being presumed dead)...
Two spring immediately to mind:
http://www.mutopiaproject.org and http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/music.
The latter is part of PG itself.I *think* you're half right. The newer pacemakers are not affected IIRC but some of the very first models were. To quote from Kumar and Clark: Clinical Medicine 4th Edition (Page 657):
This is not medical advice; I am not a Doctor (or for the Americans, I am not a Physician)
Any spelling mistakes in the above quote are due to my inability to type.
Two quite nice features of Hydro's service are the fact that they don't charge a connection fee and their minimum service term is only ONE MONTH!! That's as opposed to the minimum one year all of the cable and ADSL providers insist upon.
That's not quite true. With the wires-only products quite a few ISPs in the UK do a 3 month minimum contract now.
If it moves, it's Biology.
If it smells, it's Chemistry,
If it doesn't work, it's Physics.
(I first heard this from my A-Level Physics teacher...)
Er. Not quite correct:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/testinSo the latest release candidate for 2.0.40 was only released back in June. Doesn't look dead to me.
> So, in a while, you might get a growing colony on Mars of humans
> that are developed differently (due to the gravity), with radically
> different life experiences and are also unable to interact directly with humans from Earth.
And really, really inbred.
Er... /me looks at the British Royal Family, then the above post, then back again.
If this really bothers you then use the USA mirror (distrowatch.linuxfromscratch.org). I can definately confirm that this server runs Linux (LinuxFromScratch, not surprisingly).
Mark
> never met a more helpfull bunch of people
;-) The guys on #lfs (irc.linuxfromscratch.org) were pleased to hear that said as well!
That's nice to hear
Strangely, we actually host a distrowatch.com mirror on the linuxfromscratch.org server. (distrowatch.linuxfromscratch.org). Nice to hear the positive comments about LFS - thanks all.
Mark (BLFS Editor)