That was my solution, too. Multiple monitors are a real productivity booster. I have one 21", one 24" and one 27" monitor - from years past - connected to two cheap video cards. If you do not play games you do not not tax your video cards very much. Both of the larger monitors are turned sideways so I can see longer code listings at a glance, and especially see how the if-else clauses line up.

Do *not* put the top of the monitors at eye height. That was great advice in the days of 16 inch monitors.

I made the height of each monitor such that looking straight into a monitor would have my eyes 1/3 the distance from the top. The eyes normally can look up slightly without neck strain. The head can tilt down well without strain.

If you don't want to build a special platform, just buy the right thickness of paper reams and/or wood, as suggested elsewhere.

Hitler's left wing nationalist movement, like that of North Korea today, was very dangerous.

The purpose of the original posting was to cast the Taliban as right wing. How can you not be opposed to such diabolical demonizing?

More from the link:

Hitler often used religious speech and symbolism to promote Nazism to those that he feared would be disposed to act against him.[107][108] He also called upon religion as a pretext in diplomacies.

Further down:

He feared the political power that the churches had, and did not want to openly antagonize that political base until he had securely gained control of the country.

In other words, he was not stupid about his beliefs. It would have been a PR nightmare to let the public know of his real beliefs. The historians on the link that say that Hitler "probably" was not an atheist quote mainly his public writings and speeches. I do know from separate sources that Hitler did believe in astrology - which is very much non-Christian - at least at one time, so there may have been times where he flirted with belief in a god.

In any case, labeling your party the National Socialist Party and pushing for government control of industries is not right-of-center, it is far left of center. Touting the millions dead as caused by Christians instead of socialists is a wicked distortion as well.

The misinformation is staggering.

Hitler was an avowed atheist. He went to Christian functions as a child, which most Christian parents have their children do.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler Many historians say that Hitler had a general covert plan, which some say existed even before the Nazis' rise to power, to destroy Christianity within the Reich, which was to be accomplished through control and subversion of the churches and to be completed after the war.

Further down on the same page:

Eighty per cent of the Catholic clergy and five bishops of Warthegau were sent to concentration camps in 1939; 108 of them are regarded as blessed martyrs (that means they were killed).

Mussolini, too, was an avowed atheist. See http://worldexaminer.com/2009/11/30/was-mussolini-christian/

The millions you write of were all atheist killings, yet you ascribe them to Christians? I cry at such distortions of history.

Neither Jesus nor the apostles were about forcibly compelling people to give. Getting the government to take from some people to give to other people is legalized thievery.

As I alluded to before, this article was not posted because of Islamic versus anything else issues. It was posted to frame the militant Islamists as right wing. I read once that this sort of thing goes on all over the place. I just never ran into it myself. This is incredible!

Your choice word for me, a complete stranger to you, shows hatred.

Your history, like your language, is distorted. The word NAZI means "National Socialist German Workers' Party". See the word "Socialist"? They were decidedly far left.

You brought in Jesus and the Bible to this conversation, and claimed Jesus was a socialist. I suspect your posts are really about promoting socialism.

For the record, the only thing recorded about Jesus and economics was the Parable of the Talents, in Matthew 25, verses 20 and 21. I will simply paste from http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25/

The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five.* He said, ‘Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.’ 21d His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’

If you mean the Spanish Inqusition, then yes, nearly 2500 people were killed, according to http://askville.amazon.com/people-killed-Inquisition/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=3878676

That is a proverbial drop in a buck of water compared to those killed by Islamists in Iraq alone, per year, for years, and recently.

If you mean the various crusades over the years, there were 15,000 to 25,000 men on both sides, over decades, according to the link below. Again, a drop in the bucket.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071221224301AAB7M3H

As head of the German Socialist Party (NAZI), Adolf was as left wing as they get. Except that the communists were even more socialist, so Adolf and the boys were considered right wing by comparison. After WWII communists began calling those who want less government "right wing" as a verbal engineering ploy to discredit them, and the current "right versus left" association stuck. All that being said, what on earth does Islamists murdering bloggers have to do with left versus right wing? Are you so left wing that you are using this issue to discredit those who want less government?

I did a search and found nothing. Boing is suspecting of helping the CIA (which would be a good), but not vice-versa.

On the other hand, Obama actually admitted the US was involved in the virus that hit the Uranian nuclear materials processing plant. I suspect it was a calculated admission, not and inadvertent one, but an admission nonetheless.

Application Number: 11/307259 Computer Backup Using Native Operating System Formatted File Versions

Okay. I have a Netgear WNR3500L.

If you examine the Netgear log, you should never get anything of the type below, as it is something that Negear would have allowed in whether you liked it or not. The example below is from Jinan, China.

[LAN access from remote] from 221.1.202.102:56024 to 192.168.1.4:32789 Sunday, Jul 22,2004 23:43:16

Log messages of the form below are things that your computer requested, such as when you clicked on a link, and the router allowed. The "192.168.1.2" was assigned to my laptop.

[Site allowed: web.mail.comcast.net] from source 192.168.1.2, Sunday, Jul 22,2004 19:12:08

Disable the Router's PIN!!! It has a brute force vulnerability. There are (now) numerous articles on it.

Use WPA2-PSK[AES] encryption.

Use a very long administrative password with capital and small letters, and numbers.

Use a long users' log on password with a good alphanumeric mix. You only have to type it into your laptop or computer once.

After you have done all this, log out of the router, then reboot it. Then log back in and change both the administrative and the user's passwords again. This is because an outside agent can monitor/gather info while you are doing the first set. Presumably you can change the passwords again before the outside agent has a chance to analyze that you changed it the first time, and hence has no chance to monitor the second change. Paranoid, yes, but, I NEVER get the "LAN access from remote" messages anymore.

That is good information.

I have to agree for the general case, and that may be what the case was with me. I should add that I had applied for a patent about a year before so it may have made sense for a state sponsored effort to hack my machine. It is hard not to be xenophobic when something like that happens to you.

Thanks

I was so excited when I got my first wireless router a number of years ago that I used to check the in/out listings daily. I did not care too much about unauthorized access (who would want to monitor me?) so I just chose the Netgear defaults. I quickly found out that a number of DAILY accesses were from somewhere in China. They were not from the same places in China, but they were from China nonetheless. I quickly made the security corrections. Fortunately they do not seem to get in now. Emphasis on the words "seem to".

This can all be avoided if we get rid of corporate taxes. Corporate taxes are like taking little bits of flesh from the goose that lays golden eggs. Take the tax eggs from the owners of the goose instead! Corporations are not people. They are bricks, steel, and paperwork. If we had no corporate taxes, big corporations like Eaton won't move to places like Ireland.

Perl and C are my primary languages, but I used Ada for years in times past.

In Ada you have to specify things like upper and lower bounds and floating point precision for nearly every such variable. That means you have to consult with the manual of the specific target board. It was a chore, but during run time Ada kept track behind-the-scenes and let you know if an out of bounds number was created, or if something was trying to access an array with an out of bounds index. There are other constructs that are no fun, and are foreign to other languages.

There is no other language that forces a programmer to do so many things. Ada will never be popular for fun programming. On the other hand, I would love to see the world turn to Ada for all mission critical ventures.