Gandi.net are a sizable international registrar i first heard of back during the last 'elephant sized' Godaddy debacle.

They support a load of projects like Debian and the EFF, along with charities like the International Federation of Human Rights and the WWF.

They cost a tiny bit more than Godaddy but it's a pittance given the manner with which they conduct themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi

https://www.gandi.net/supports/

I like to read all the stories that get posted (and i'd wager i'm far from the only one) and would like a way of knowing what stories i've missed when i take a holiday, or am too busy to visit. This could be solved with a timeline that shows a condensed view of which days & stories made it to onto your screen compared with those days for which there's no visit recorded.

Just the other day i discovered Play On Linux which fits this need.

While games are a primary feature it includes support for many of the common apps as well.

In addition to apps with built in support you can find scripts in their forum for recent versions of Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and the like

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I went to Kinetica the other day and saw this and was definitely impressed. What i don't think is obvious from RTFA was that he was running Ubuntu! There were actually 3 individual arms setup, all communicating thru a wireless access point to a laptop he had in front of him. There were even mini postcards he was giving out with a rather dashing interpretation of Alan Turing on it :)

Would agree with the 1 Desktop Support to 100 Users figure for windows as well. Plus an optional employee in training to handle holidays, upcoming promotions to SA etc On experience would say that ratio should hold even in a company with only 100 or so non-tech related users. Never been in a company with 5000 desktops. At 1 to 50 you'd be expecting them to do a lot more than just help users, fix machines and write procedures.

I'd say no. Given the likely chance that they will open source only the gui code and not the protocol library, the program might as well be closed source. A program like Pidgin that wanted to include skype support would have to include a pre-compiled 'blackbox' file to actually communicate with anything, and since the source for this was not available, it could no longer be distributed as open source.

Even the second biggest one (12mb) is only 24kbps / 8000Hz and sounds like crap. And there's 8mb and 4mb versions below that! Surely a single 64kbps 220000Hz stream would of done? :s The large version is here - 96kpbs / 32000Hz.... http://cluebytwelve.net/anticipation/Stross-Krugman%202009-08-06hi.mp3

I would imagine the same principle might apply to those who in crowds who rush inbetween people or push past others.

While similar i'm not sure it fits 'the mob as a fluid' theory though:

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2009/01/physics-of-crowds.html

Itself somewhat dismissed (at least in passing) for disregarding irrationality here:

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13174313

In all probability it may be that a cross of all factors is at work. Perhaps some people see it as queuing while others always look for the alternative way through.