yes please (for the rocket launcher & moron parts).

  - Hubert

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

www.totemo.ch - somewhat pricy, but very nice handling:

based upon a ruleset, it can send mails encrypted with PGP or S/MIME (if keys are known), as encrypted PDF (sender gets password for manual transmission) or store the message on a webserver and just give login/password to the recipient.
if no prior key exchange happened, the PDF-solution creates a PGP-key and a S/MIME cert and sends both public keys with the PDF, so the recipient can choose whatever they want.
when receiving mails with attached PGP/SMIME public keys/certs, totemo takes the certs and stores them for future communication in the opposite direction.

I've seen other solutions, but Totemo seems pretty mature and works very well for me with several companies.

  - Hubert

... www.gedenkseiten.de where you can make a profile for the late person, and visitors can light virtual candles.
YMMV if this is useful.

  - Hubert

because not everything is Linux & bash,
thank you very much.

  - Hubert

More than housing.

As the Unix does since ... 1969?
Seriously, WTF?!

  - Hubert

... by the Harvest Project, which installed several local data collectors, and which then added a search engine over all those collectors. The cache system added in between is still known today: Squid.

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

  - Hubert

I don't know for Ford, but German automotive manufacturers have dealt with human/machine interfacing for a very long time,
and in the process have not focussed on software/screen only, but also added many more interfacing methods like buttons, dials, cameras facing into the car and outside.
Names that come to mind are car manufacturers (Audi, BMW, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz) and their suppliers (Continental, Hella, Vector Informatik).

The whole topic has been covered not by computer science or engineers, but very much by information science.
So maybe you want to have a look there if you are into this topic.
Keywords: driver assistance, hmi, navigation systems

  - Hubert

nuff said! - try it!

... were just the next logical step beyond simple ASCII terminals,
and before a decent graphics protocol (X, etc.).
For some background/data on how those things fit together, see here:
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/ttys.html

Enjoy!

  - Hubert

just that.
There was enough time to fix this an several other updates were pushed out since this happened last,
so i'm not impressed by the job Apple does here.

  - Hubert

R is a very impressive, mature program that does a hell of a job.
I best liked connecting R data sets to a PostgreSQL database
for my PhD thesis, and then doing statistical data on SQL selections
without bothing about the SQL bits any more.

Also, I see lots of universities in Germany step up and teach R, which I think is good.

  - Hubert

I've wondered about what document management system to use in an ISO context the other day, and was recommended Agorum (www.agorum.com).
Does anyone have experiences with that? Good / no good?

  - Hubert

... what exactly is it? I've missed some striking reason to dig deeper on the webpage. Some showcase with examples, screenshots etc. may be in order to get people look into it. Also, an answer to the question how it relates to Nagios may be nice.

Keep up the good work!

  - Hubert