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You may want to try a live Ubuntu Linux CD. Ubuntu Linux is based on Debian and with the live CD version you don't have to install it to your hard drive. If all your hardware works with the live CD, then its a good chance it'll work with Debian Sarge.Good luck!Goldinero

I recently ran across this site called Dynamic Masterpiece that is kinda like the milliondollarhomepage.com but with a twist. It pays you for referrals. Has anyone else seen it?

The Coral Castle is on the west coast of Florida state. A guy named Edward Leedskalnin built it several years ago. It's made out of huge stones carved, positioned, and balanced with incredible accuracy. Reportedly, Mr. Leedskalnin used no standard machinery, e.g., cranes, trucks, peumatic lifts, to create his castle. When questioned about how he had moved stones weighing several tons into place, he commented that he understood the secrets the Egyptians used to build the pyramids. More information here. Believe it or not.

Like the Windows vs. Mac debate, arguments over the "best" Linux distribution is futile as it is little more than a religious discussion. As Arigato noted, different people like different flavors of Linux. One thing most Linux users agree on, however, is that Linux is a much better OS technically than Windows. Plus, by using Linux, you don't have enslave yourself to a ridiculous End User License Agreement (EULA) or submit to a corporation gathering information about your computer or yourself that you'd rather not release.

Nothing is "always correct" in this world, much less a website. I have used PayPal myself on several occassions and believe that (for the most part) it is a fairly decent payment system. I personally trusted it more before ebay bought it. But, like other payment systems based on debt, it maintains a database of private information on everyone who uses it. And that database can be compromised. Aside from security, several people with legitimate businesses have had PayPal freeze their accounts. For more information on concerns about PayPal see http://www.paypalsucks.com/. I hope this reply helps someone understand PayPal a little better.

You might also give Nvu a try... also a free application.

I knew that the Wankel rotary engine could run on a variety of fuels, but I wasn't aware that the diesel could too. Question is, will this catch on.

Many live CDs are marketed as rescue CDs, which is what I think you mean by "saving computers." But Slax is not. It doesn't have the tools necessary to do rescue operations. But it does boot up as a nice workstation environment.

As a North American I tend to agree with the original poster. I don't think terrorists have changed the world any more than any other catastrophe in the world. The only thing that has changed is the amount of attention terrorists get from the general public in the form of fear thanks to our "benevolent" government that puts negative labels on disagreeable groups to rally up the lynch mob. Conveniently, all this focus on terrorists takes the public's attention away from the real threat to its way of life, i.e., nationwide surveillance, legislation that errodes personal freedom, and a Department of Homeland Security that is quickly becoming a secret police force to take care of Americans who oppose the US Government. The public, being like a herd of sheep, easily directed to believe things that in many cases don't even make sense, see the WTC fall and are willing to give up freedom to fight against not an enemy but a concept - terrorism. Instead, the public should understand that 10 times as many people die each year in the United States from firearms than died in the WTC collapse. And the government, if it could not protect us from the WTC attack or the hurricane Katrina deaths, is simply not capable of protecting the public from catastrophes, man-made or otherwise. Therefore, letting the government increase the policing of its own people is only inviting the inevitable collapse of liberty as we have known it in this country.

I'm totally with you on vent items #1 and #2. In fact, I have a lot of complaints about the government. But I'll have to open another vent topic just for that. The US goverment and State governments are totally messed up. They have become the very thing that our forefathers fought against in the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson summarizes my thoughts best in his statement,

If I were you, I'd download The GIMP for free (it's open source software) and try it. I just started using it recently and like it better than Paint Shop Pro. I'm using it on a Pentium II with only 128 MB RAM and it works fine.

At one time peopl believed the world was flat. Later, they believed that traveling at the speed of a locamotive would be dangerous to humans. Then they believed that human flight was impossible. Again they thought supersonic flight was unachievable. Of course, now we know they were all wrong. And it is only a matter of time before someone shows not with an equation, but with physical evidence, that E=mc^2 is does not define the upper speed limit of travel most places in the universe.

I believe they are referring to the potential hazard of this flu as a pandemic. I read something about a conceivable death toll of 250 million from this flu if it gets out of control.

Fiber optics for long-haul communications transmission is one thing, building an optical computer is quite another. The primary barrier to building an optical computer has been making electro-optical interfaces small enough and cheap enough that they can be put on a chip to be used for data transmission for short distances. Currently Intel (and other companies, I'm sure) is working on silicon-based light transmission. The technology is based on the concept of creating a light waveguide on a silicon chip over which the light can travel. Then using techniques similar to those used in Raman optical amplifiers, the light can be gated as ones and zeros using constructive and destructive interference.

Very well. Definition: bank loan - funds extended to a person called the borrower who signs a promissory note to pay the amount of funds (usually with interest) to the bank. A bank asset. Specific examples: 1) I called my credit union credit union and asked an accounts rep how I get free online bill pay. She told me I had to be a gold member. I asked how I become a gold member. She said I had to have a total of $10,000 in deposits and loans with the credit union. When I asked how loans were figured into the amount for gold membership, she replied that loans are assets to the credit union. 2) In Modern Money Mechanics published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, it states that 3) Mark Cella, in his article "Out of Credit Card Debt - Without Filing Bankrupcy" states Now that I have provided the definition AND specific examples to back up my definition, please put my post back where it belongs: in the What is.... section. Thank you, Goldinero