Still I'm wondering if it's really worth learning Esperanto.
Yes, but maybe not for the reasons you initially think. There have been studies that have shown that people who learn Esperanto as their second language can pickup other human languages (like French) suprisingly faster than people who only know their native language. Learning Esperanto can thus help accelerate and improve your ability to learn other languages.
I heard about that film for nearly twenty years before it was released. Drove me crazy. Finally saw a copy and am disappointed that it's subtitled. Harumph!
Yeah, but did you compare the subtitles to the actual spoken words? While the pronunciation was terrible, there were some funny "errors".
The most memorable for me was the subtitle that claimed Mr. Shatners character said "I love you", when in actual fact he literally said "I want to have your babies".
I'm a bit rusty, having not paid much attention to my Esperanto studies for the last little while, but one of these days I'm going to start up again. I have several Esperanto books, including a copy of "The Diary of Anne Frank" I bought at Anne Frank house in Amsterdam last time I was there. It was rather funny purchasing it -- the people in the bookstore thought I had brought it with me, even though I plucked it off their shelf (presumably the people at the till had never sold a copy before, and thus didn't even know they had it in stock!:) ).
It's an excellent language -- makes english look crude and low-tech by comparison. It's a highly constructive language. Take, for example, the word for hospital: malsanulejo. It's actuall a "constructed" word, with the following breakdown:
"san-": prefix denoting the concep of "health"; sana == "healthy", sane == heathily,
"mal-": prefix that causes the appended root to become it's opposite; malsana == "unhealthy",
"-ul-": suffix denoting a person who exhibits this quality; malsanulo == "unhealthy person",
"-ej-": suffix denoting a place where you'd expect the find this item,
"-o": denotes an obect noun. Thus malsanulejo == "place where you'd expect to find unhealthy people".
Sheer beauty. One of these days I should get back to the books.
Woah, looks like JFS performs really well!
Anyone has good/bad experience using JFS?
I'm using JFS on three partitions on my OS/2 box. It's fast, recovers exceedingly quickly, and seems to be as solid as a rock. Using IBM's LVM, its valumes can be quickly and easily expanded across new partitions. Very slick indeed.
I haven't got around to converting any of my Linux boxes over to JFS, however, so I haven't tested it there. The Linux JFS driver is based off the OS/2 driver, however, so I'd expect similar performance.
Many people think that scroll lock is now useless, except in Microsoft Excel, but it does have a much more useful purpose, at least in Linux and perhaps BSD.
It's also used in Lotus Notes for its original purpose. The last company I worked for used Notes as its groupware client, and it once took me 5 minutes to figure out why I couldn't scroll through my list of inbox e-mail messages without the entire list moving up and down, not having noticed that the "Scroll Lock" light was on:).
For those interested in joining the "Be more like Yaz" gang, drop by your local military surplus store.
I actually found mine at a local electronics surplus store -- for some reason, they had two of them sitting on the floor next to some bins of assorted electric motors. I happened to be there buying a bunch of parts for a robotics project I was working on, and decided to buy the ammo case to carry and hold the components during construction. After the components caught on fire during a test, I abandoned the project, but continued to carry around the ammo box with other things it in (first as a lunch box, then later as my general "carry-all" case).
How do you prevent things from rattling around? I have something similar and it's noisy and things get dinged up.
To be honest, I've never padded it, and it's never been a problem. I simply don't shake it around, and generally keep it upright. There is enough stuff in it (including little things I didn't bother to list) that it's never been an issue.
It's worth noting here that there are different sizes of cartridge cases (just as there are different sizes of cartridges). Mine is roughly 27 x 18 x 9 (cm), so it's not huge. I usually try to ensure that items are organized/packed along the horizontal plain, so while it's rarely ever full to the top, the items in it aren't going to roll around much when it's being carried around.
Yup, that's what I carry my gear in -- an old M67 cartridge case. It usually has my Palm, car MP3 player faceplate, portable MP3 player, Zippo lighter, swiss army knife (mechanic style), toothbrush (hey, you never know...), and various other items (several of which vary from day-to-day, frequently including a can of Coke;) ).
It has the following advantages:
Being of all-metal construction, it's tough. You can give it a real pounding, and it will still stay in one piece. I could probably run it over with my car, and the contents would be intact (not that I'm about to try it or anything...:) ),
It has a rubber seal on the lid, so when you clamp it down it's completely water tight. It also floats (yes, I've tested both. I once even weighted it and lowered it off the side of a boat to a depth of about 3m, and it still didn't let any water in),
It keeps people on the subway from hassling you:). If a thug has a choice of a guy with a bat-belt of electronics, and one carrying a heavy-looking metal box painted Army green, they're going to go after bat-belt boy. I wouldn't want to get hit in the head with an ammo case full of stuff!
It makes a great footrest, or even a seat.
I've carried my ammo case around everywhere for more than 4 years now. People often assume that I'd be getting stopped by security guards or the police often, but in all my time carrying it around, I've only been stopped twice (and once was because the guard wanted to tell me that he tought _he_ was the only one who carried all his stuff in one!:) ). I've never been asked to leave anywhere because I've had it in my possession.
Mind you, I don't take it into airports. And I've never crossed a border with it. And I do live in Canada, which tends to be less paranoid about such things than the US is (which is one reason why I've never taken it across a border...). But in general, everywhere I go, my ammo case of stuff follows.
Let's see they could get with lexmark and make a P2 Printer.
It's already been done -- at least in Japan. An inkjet printer called the "Pop Egg" was released there some time ago. As well, there are several photo printers for the PS2 on the market:
And you make money how? Not to be rude in any way, because I am totally up for never working again, but I have been unemployed for like a year, and selling things on eBay worked great until my camera got jacked. So now it's real job time. Just curious that's all.
Two words: extensive savings:). I squirrelled away quite a bit of cash over the years, and along with my severance amount, I've been able to survive, and should continue to be able to do so for at least another 6 months or so, by which time I'm hoping that one of two good looking job prospects I've applied for will have worked out.
Hey -- are you the one spying on me from the adjacent building?:).
I lost my job (with a company often associated with the properties "blue" and "big", not necessarily in that order) nearly two years ago, back in January 2002. Since then, I've Open Sourced my PalmOS data synchronization project (v3.0 final is due out in the next two weeks, so go download it!!!), run about 20km per week, and do about 60 push-ups, 80 sit-ups, and 12 chin-ups a day. I completely kicked the caffiene habbit (switched from regular Coca Cola to caffiene free Coca Cola...:) ), and am eating quite a bit better (and a whole lot cheaper!).
The only things in your list I haven't done is any volunteering (unless you consider administrating and leading development on a large Open Source project every day to be volunteer work;) ), or going to the library (I already have three bookshelves of books here, so I've been re-reading them all).
Oh, and I haven't kicked the beer habit -- having never picked it up in the first place, I haven't really seen the point of starting, just so I can quit.
Yup -- unemployment is the best thing that ever happened to me. More time to work on important projects, read, eat right, and get more excercise. If only I had an un-exhaustible source of money, things would be perfect (or, barring that, a decent job would do...).
How much more serious of an issue would this have been if a shelf of the same size broke off in Antarctica (where the ice is anchored to land) than in the Arctic (where it was floating before and thus won't raise sea levels)?
This ice wasn't just floating before -- it was indeed anchored to land. Ellismere Island, where it was located, is indeed a true island.
W32.Swen is really aggrevating me over here. In the past few days I've received over 1000 copies. And I'm not terribly happy about it. I'm probably averaging at least 100 per hour during the day, and about 300 at night (when my primary e-mail system is offline).
The really irritating part? My _entire_ network consists of one OS/2 box (the e-mail client machine), and three Linux boxes. Not a single one can be infected by this virus, and not a single one could propogate it (unless I explicitly wanted to do so, which I don't).
Now thankfully I'm on a pretty decent cable modem service here (really good speed), bogofilter was quickly trained to detect and toss these messages into a SPAM folder (where they quickly get deleted), and my mail client (PMMail/2) has a remote control feature that allows me to scan message titles on the server and delete the messages without downloading them.
But still -- imagine if this weren't an immune OS/2 machine, but one of the Windows machines that could be infected. I could very well be propogating these as well. But because of my good choices in OS's, I don't.
Thus, I think I'm doing a public service by _not_ running Windows and propogating these viruses, but instead act as a sink to prevent them from propogating. My machine is the end-of-the-line for these viruses -- even though getting thousands of e-mail is highly annoying, my machine (in effect) "kills" the ones I receive, causing their propogation lines to end.
I think Windows users on the Internet owe those of us who run other operating systems, and they owe us big. They can start paying up by PROPERLY PATCHING THEIR SYSTEMS!!! (Stopping sending me $^&*%^&!! hundreds of copies of W32.Swen would be really helpful as well).
It was the Quake I port that was leaked, not doom. And the OS/2 version kicked the shit out of the windows version, loading in only a second or two.
Sorry, but you're quite incorrect -- I have the leaked Doom for OS/2 client sitting here in front of me, complete with all the copyright statements to back up my story.
There was a version of Quake 1 that was released for OS/2, but that was compiled by some OS/2 users based off Quake source code that was accidentially leaked to the web. It was never an official product or project of anyone, but was instead the product of some hackers taking advantage of a situation.
I do agree however -- it did play better on OS/2 than it did anywhere else, for its time.
Reminds me of the Doom for OS/2 debacle back in the early-mid 90s. IBM contracted a developer to port Doom to OS/2. IBM demoed the game in action at some trade shows. A private beta version was eventually leaked to the Internet, but the finished game never saw the light of day.
Similar situation happened with Lemmings for OS/2. A developer was contracted by Sony/Psygnosis to do the port. The developer became active on comp.os.os2.games recruiting beta testers. Public betas were made available. The game worked perfectly with the 5 or 6 demo levels that were in the beta, and then suddenly everything disappeared.
I sometimes think that Linux users have forgotten that, for many of us, this sort of situation isn't new. I swore off Windows completely back in 1993, and saw this same sort of thing over, and over, and over, and over again. I'm seeing the same thing now with Linux (and, as you point out, it's often been an issue for Mac users as well).
I wish I had a solution (I wish I had a solution 8 years ago for that matter). I don't like the situation anymore than anyone else here does, but, as they say, it is what it is.
This has been an issue in computing for the last decade: PC game companies write games for Windows. That's the way it was, that's the way it is, and unless something drastic happens, that's the way it's always going to be. Gamers use Windows because it's the platform the majority of PC games are on, and PC game companies target Windows because that's where the vast majority of their audience is.
This isn't a Linux-specific issue either. As an OS/2 user for the last 12 years (and Linux user for the past 4 or 5), I've seen it first hand. The only thing that will potientiall change the situation is if the game companies either see a huge decrease in the sales of their Windows titles, or feel there is sufficiently pent-up demand for Linux-based titles.
Personally, I don't see that happening anytime soon. My advice to you is to do what I did -- leave your PC for serious work, and go out and buy a PlayStation 2, a good TV, and a surround sound system. Add in the network adapter and the PS2 Linux kit, and you have a kick-ass game system, DVD player, and Linux box all in one nice black box, leaving your PCs available for more serious computing tasks.
But in all seriousness, Dvorak, of the alternat two handed keyboard fame, also developed keboards for one handed use, both right hand and left hand. Unfortunatly, on quick googling around I can only find reference to this as a component of the Dvorak history - no pages where you can purchase one.
There is no need to purchase one -- you can easily re-map an existing keyboard to the task.
All major OS's have Dvorak, Dvorak-left and Dvorak-right layouts built in. This includes Linux, Windows, and OS/2 (and probably all the rest). Just pick the one you want to use.
Assuming you're new to the layout, the only other task is to physically modify your keycaps to the correct layout. If you have a non-chiclet keyboard with removable, orthogonal keys, you can simply remove the caps and move them around. My old Honeywell WN-101 keyboard was remapped to two-handed Dvorak in this manner.
I used to be in posession of a pile of old IBM "clicky" keyboards. These (and their soft-touch cousins) are the nicest keyboards for remapping, as the keycaps are easily removed and swapped. I used to have a few Dvorak, Dvorak-left and Dvorak-right keyboards from performing such remappings.
This is why you won't ever find one for sale -- there really isn't any need, as any keyboard with moveable keys can easily be made into one.
Regardless of land size and population, who do you think is going to win a fight; a country with 34 ships, and 4 subs, or one with over 800% more than that?
That depends on who you think would win this fight: Superman, or Mighty Mouse?
Come on -- it's a dumb question, as chances are it's never going to happen. Nobody expects aa country with Canada's population to be able to rival a country the size of the US in military might -- it's simply not reasonably possible.
Kind of strange that there are so few from US that emmigrate to Canada given that Canada is objectively a better place to live.
That depends on what your family background is. There are a few shelters in the Buffalo area that would deign to disagree with you, as there has in the last two years been a rash of naturalized US citizens of middle-east decent who have packed their bags and are at the border awaiting their meetings with Immigration Canada representatives:
...there are 34 ships in the Canadian Naval Fleet. There are a dozen ships in each of the Halifax and Kingston classes alone. That count also includes 4 submarines.
...the US Navy has 297 deployable ships. Considering the US has roughly 10 times Canada's population, the ships-per-capita probably works out to be close to even. The US only has 12 deployable submarines (according to the above website) -- only 3 times as many as Canada, with 1/10th the population (and tax base) has.
While we're on the subject of correcting misconceptions about Canada...
...but since pot is legal, we can just pump the smoke into the ??AA HQ here, and they won't care what's traded, as long as they get lunch;)
"Pot" is NOT legal in Canada. The federal government is simply de-criminalizing posession; that is, changing the rules so that if you're caught posessing some, you won't be thrown in jail, and won't wind up with a criminal record.
You can, however, still be fined. Cannibis is still a controlled substance in Canada, and not legal for sale. The penalties for illegal grow operations are still quite stiff (there are, of course, a few legal grow operations to service the needs of the experimental "medical marijuana" system).
Thus, "pot" isn't legal here in Canada -- they've just removed the criminal aspect of simple posession.
Given the methodology of Gentoo's packaging system, I'm not surprised that it's the first mainstream Linux distribution that's making it over to the PS2.
It's not the first mainstream Linux distro ported to the PS2. If we ignore Sony's Linux for a second, BlackRhino was released for the PS2 last March, and it's completely Debian based.
Yaz.
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You already own a PS2 as "Joe Homeguy". You could go out and buy a new computer, but the guy at the store says "Well, just buy this Hard Drive upgrade for $200 for your PS2, and stick in this CD with Linux on it, and off you go".
Linux for the PS2 also extends the useful lifetime of the console hardware.
I own the PS2 Linux kit. Admittedly, I don't boot up into it terribly often (I have two other Linux boxes here to work on as well), but it's all installed and setup.
However, as we all know, consoles eventually hit an "end-of-life" after 4 or 5 years, when Sony releases their next console and everyone starts developing for it instead. How many old PS1's are there out there sitting in closets and garages because the gamer of the house now owns a PS2 and no longer needs it?
Linux extends this useful lifetime. When the PS3 does come out, I don't have to relegate my PS2 to the closet. It's already running Linux. I can simply put it into a closet and let it run a mail server, a file server, a media server (having the digital optical audio out on it makes it a lovely Ogg Vorbis/MP3 jukebox), or any one of a number of other useful tasks.
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Yes, but maybe not for the reasons you initially think. There have been studies that have shown that people who learn Esperanto as their second language can pickup other human languages (like French) suprisingly faster than people who only know their native language. Learning Esperanto can thus help accelerate and improve your ability to learn other languages.
Yaz.
Yeah, but did you compare the subtitles to the actual spoken words? While the pronunciation was terrible, there were some funny "errors".
The most memorable for me was the subtitle that claimed Mr. Shatners character said "I love you", when in actual fact he literally said "I want to have your babies".
Sheer comedy!
Yaz
Mi malbone parolas g^in. Mi lernis hejme.
I'm a bit rusty, having not paid much attention to my Esperanto studies for the last little while, but one of these days I'm going to start up again. I have several Esperanto books, including a copy of "The Diary of Anne Frank" I bought at Anne Frank house in Amsterdam last time I was there. It was rather funny purchasing it -- the people in the bookstore thought I had brought it with me, even though I plucked it off their shelf (presumably the people at the till had never sold a copy before, and thus didn't even know they had it in stock! :) ).
It's an excellent language -- makes english look crude and low-tech by comparison. It's a highly constructive language. Take, for example, the word for hospital: malsanulejo. It's actuall a "constructed" word, with the following breakdown:
Sheer beauty. One of these days I should get back to the books.
Yaz.
Of course. "Please send for the porter, there appears to be a frog in my bidet!".
(Sorry, couldn't help myself :) ).
Yaz.
I'm using JFS on three partitions on my OS/2 box. It's fast, recovers exceedingly quickly, and seems to be as solid as a rock. Using IBM's LVM, its valumes can be quickly and easily expanded across new partitions. Very slick indeed.
I haven't got around to converting any of my Linux boxes over to JFS, however, so I haven't tested it there. The Linux JFS driver is based off the OS/2 driver, however, so I'd expect similar performance.
Yaz.
It's also used in Lotus Notes for its original purpose. The last company I worked for used Notes as its groupware client, and it once took me 5 minutes to figure out why I couldn't scroll through my list of inbox e-mail messages without the entire list moving up and down, not having noticed that the "Scroll Lock" light was on :).
Yaz.
For those interested in joining the "Be more like Yaz" gang, drop by your local military surplus store.
I actually found mine at a local electronics surplus store -- for some reason, they had two of them sitting on the floor next to some bins of assorted electric motors. I happened to be there buying a bunch of parts for a robotics project I was working on, and decided to buy the ammo case to carry and hold the components during construction. After the components caught on fire during a test, I abandoned the project, but continued to carry around the ammo box with other things it in (first as a lunch box, then later as my general "carry-all" case).
HTH!
Yaz.
To be honest, I've never padded it, and it's never been a problem. I simply don't shake it around, and generally keep it upright. There is enough stuff in it (including little things I didn't bother to list) that it's never been an issue.
It's worth noting here that there are different sizes of cartridge cases (just as there are different sizes of cartridges). Mine is roughly 27 x 18 x 9 (cm), so it's not huge. I usually try to ensure that items are organized/packed along the horizontal plain, so while it's rarely ever full to the top, the items in it aren't going to roll around much when it's being carried around.
Yaz.
Yup, that's what I carry my gear in -- an old M67 cartridge case. It usually has my Palm, car MP3 player faceplate, portable MP3 player, Zippo lighter, swiss army knife (mechanic style), toothbrush (hey, you never know...), and various other items (several of which vary from day-to-day, frequently including a can of Coke ;) ).
It has the following advantages:
I've carried my ammo case around everywhere for more than 4 years now. People often assume that I'd be getting stopped by security guards or the police often, but in all my time carrying it around, I've only been stopped twice (and once was because the guard wanted to tell me that he tought _he_ was the only one who carried all his stuff in one! :) ). I've never been asked to leave anywhere because I've had it in my possession.
Mind you, I don't take it into airports. And I've never crossed a border with it. And I do live in Canada, which tends to be less paranoid about such things than the US is (which is one reason why I've never taken it across a border...). But in general, everywhere I go, my ammo case of stuff follows.
Yaz.
It's already been done -- at least in Japan. An inkjet printer called the "Pop Egg" was released there some time ago. As well, there are several photo printers for the PS2 on the market:
There's some pretty weird PS2 software out in Japan to take adavantage of these printers :P.
Yaz.
Two words: extensive savings :). I squirrelled away quite a bit of cash over the years, and along with my severance amount, I've been able to survive, and should continue to be able to do so for at least another 6 months or so, by which time I'm hoping that one of two good looking job prospects I've applied for will have worked out.
Yaz.
Hey -- are you the one spying on me from the adjacent building? :).
I lost my job (with a company often associated with the properties "blue" and "big", not necessarily in that order) nearly two years ago, back in January 2002. Since then, I've Open Sourced my PalmOS data synchronization project (v3.0 final is due out in the next two weeks, so go download it!!!), run about 20km per week, and do about 60 push-ups, 80 sit-ups, and 12 chin-ups a day. I completely kicked the caffiene habbit (switched from regular Coca Cola to caffiene free Coca Cola... :) ), and am eating quite a bit better (and a whole lot cheaper!).
The only things in your list I haven't done is any volunteering (unless you consider administrating and leading development on a large Open Source project every day to be volunteer work ;) ), or going to the library (I already have three bookshelves of books here, so I've been re-reading them all).
Oh, and I haven't kicked the beer habit -- having never picked it up in the first place, I haven't really seen the point of starting, just so I can quit.
Yup -- unemployment is the best thing that ever happened to me. More time to work on important projects, read, eat right, and get more excercise. If only I had an un-exhaustible source of money, things would be perfect (or, barring that, a decent job would do...).
Yaz.
This ice wasn't just floating before -- it was indeed anchored to land. Ellismere Island, where it was located, is indeed a true island.
Yaz.
W32.Swen is really aggrevating me over here. In the past few days I've received over 1000 copies. And I'm not terribly happy about it. I'm probably averaging at least 100 per hour during the day, and about 300 at night (when my primary e-mail system is offline).
The really irritating part? My _entire_ network consists of one OS/2 box (the e-mail client machine), and three Linux boxes. Not a single one can be infected by this virus, and not a single one could propogate it (unless I explicitly wanted to do so, which I don't).
Now thankfully I'm on a pretty decent cable modem service here (really good speed), bogofilter was quickly trained to detect and toss these messages into a SPAM folder (where they quickly get deleted), and my mail client (PMMail/2) has a remote control feature that allows me to scan message titles on the server and delete the messages without downloading them.
But still -- imagine if this weren't an immune OS/2 machine, but one of the Windows machines that could be infected. I could very well be propogating these as well. But because of my good choices in OS's, I don't.
Thus, I think I'm doing a public service by _not_ running Windows and propogating these viruses, but instead act as a sink to prevent them from propogating. My machine is the end-of-the-line for these viruses -- even though getting thousands of e-mail is highly annoying, my machine (in effect) "kills" the ones I receive, causing their propogation lines to end.
I think Windows users on the Internet owe those of us who run other operating systems, and they owe us big. They can start paying up by PROPERLY PATCHING THEIR SYSTEMS!!! (Stopping sending me $^&*%^&!! hundreds of copies of W32.Swen would be really helpful as well).
Yaz.
Sorry, but you're quite incorrect -- I have the leaked Doom for OS/2 client sitting here in front of me, complete with all the copyright statements to back up my story.
There was a version of Quake 1 that was released for OS/2, but that was compiled by some OS/2 users based off Quake source code that was accidentially leaked to the web. It was never an official product or project of anyone, but was instead the product of some hackers taking advantage of a situation.
I do agree however -- it did play better on OS/2 than it did anywhere else, for its time.
Yaz.
When do companies ever release a press release on a Sunday?
And trust me -- no reasonable company anywhere ever makes a press release on April 1st. They'll date it March 21st or April 2nd instead.
Yaz.
Reminds me of the Doom for OS/2 debacle back in the early-mid 90s. IBM contracted a developer to port Doom to OS/2. IBM demoed the game in action at some trade shows. A private beta version was eventually leaked to the Internet, but the finished game never saw the light of day.
Similar situation happened with Lemmings for OS/2. A developer was contracted by Sony/Psygnosis to do the port. The developer became active on comp.os.os2.games recruiting beta testers. Public betas were made available. The game worked perfectly with the 5 or 6 demo levels that were in the beta, and then suddenly everything disappeared.
I sometimes think that Linux users have forgotten that, for many of us, this sort of situation isn't new. I swore off Windows completely back in 1993, and saw this same sort of thing over, and over, and over, and over again. I'm seeing the same thing now with Linux (and, as you point out, it's often been an issue for Mac users as well).
I wish I had a solution (I wish I had a solution 8 years ago for that matter). I don't like the situation anymore than anyone else here does, but, as they say, it is what it is.
Yaz.
Welcome to earth. Nice to have you here.
This has been an issue in computing for the last decade: PC game companies write games for Windows. That's the way it was, that's the way it is, and unless something drastic happens, that's the way it's always going to be. Gamers use Windows because it's the platform the majority of PC games are on, and PC game companies target Windows because that's where the vast majority of their audience is.
This isn't a Linux-specific issue either. As an OS/2 user for the last 12 years (and Linux user for the past 4 or 5), I've seen it first hand. The only thing that will potientiall change the situation is if the game companies either see a huge decrease in the sales of their Windows titles, or feel there is sufficiently pent-up demand for Linux-based titles.
Personally, I don't see that happening anytime soon. My advice to you is to do what I did -- leave your PC for serious work, and go out and buy a PlayStation 2, a good TV, and a surround sound system. Add in the network adapter and the PS2 Linux kit, and you have a kick-ass game system, DVD player, and Linux box all in one nice black box, leaving your PCs available for more serious computing tasks.
Yaz.
There is no need to purchase one -- you can easily re-map an existing keyboard to the task.
All major OS's have Dvorak, Dvorak-left and Dvorak-right layouts built in. This includes Linux, Windows, and OS/2 (and probably all the rest). Just pick the one you want to use.
Assuming you're new to the layout, the only other task is to physically modify your keycaps to the correct layout. If you have a non-chiclet keyboard with removable, orthogonal keys, you can simply remove the caps and move them around. My old Honeywell WN-101 keyboard was remapped to two-handed Dvorak in this manner.
I used to be in posession of a pile of old IBM "clicky" keyboards. These (and their soft-touch cousins) are the nicest keyboards for remapping, as the keycaps are easily removed and swapped. I used to have a few Dvorak, Dvorak-left and Dvorak-right keyboards from performing such remappings.
This is why you won't ever find one for sale -- there really isn't any need, as any keyboard with moveable keys can easily be made into one.
Yaz.
That depends on who you think would win this fight: Superman, or Mighty Mouse?
Come on -- it's a dumb question, as chances are it's never going to happen. Nobody expects aa country with Canada's population to be able to rival a country the size of the US in military might -- it's simply not reasonably possible.
Yaz.
That depends on what your family background is. There are a few shelters in the Buffalo area that would deign to disagree with you, as there has in the last two years been a rash of naturalized US citizens of middle-east decent who have packed their bags and are at the border awaiting their meetings with Immigration Canada representatives:
http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filen ame=qc_border20030217
Yaz.
Post #2 in my series of "Canadian myth de-bunking"...
According to:
http://www.navy.dnd.ca/mspa_fleet/fleet_home_e.asp
...there are 34 ships in the Canadian Naval Fleet. There are a dozen ships in each of the Halifax and Kingston classes alone. That count also includes 4 submarines.
Now, according to:
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/.www/stat us.html
...the US Navy has 297 deployable ships. Considering the US has roughly 10 times Canada's population, the ships-per-capita probably works out to be close to even. The US only has 12 deployable submarines (according to the above website) -- only 3 times as many as Canada, with 1/10th the population (and tax base) has.
Yaz.
While we're on the subject of correcting misconceptions about Canada...
"Pot" is NOT legal in Canada. The federal government is simply de-criminalizing posession; that is, changing the rules so that if you're caught posessing some, you won't be thrown in jail, and won't wind up with a criminal record.
You can, however, still be fined. Cannibis is still a controlled substance in Canada, and not legal for sale. The penalties for illegal grow operations are still quite stiff (there are, of course, a few legal grow operations to service the needs of the experimental "medical marijuana" system).
Thus, "pot" isn't legal here in Canada -- they've just removed the criminal aspect of simple posession.
Yaz.
It's not the first mainstream Linux distro ported to the PS2. If we ignore Sony's Linux for a second, BlackRhino was released for the PS2 last March, and it's completely Debian based.
Yaz.
Linux for the PS2 also extends the useful lifetime of the console hardware.
I own the PS2 Linux kit. Admittedly, I don't boot up into it terribly often (I have two other Linux boxes here to work on as well), but it's all installed and setup.
However, as we all know, consoles eventually hit an "end-of-life" after 4 or 5 years, when Sony releases their next console and everyone starts developing for it instead. How many old PS1's are there out there sitting in closets and garages because the gamer of the house now owns a PS2 and no longer needs it?
Linux extends this useful lifetime. When the PS3 does come out, I don't have to relegate my PS2 to the closet. It's already running Linux. I can simply put it into a closet and let it run a mail server, a file server, a media server (having the digital optical audio out on it makes it a lovely Ogg Vorbis/MP3 jukebox), or any one of a number of other useful tasks.
Yaz.