128882 signing off. :(

Real Slackware users use screen so they don't need to waste resources on a desktop.

Certainly. Which meter should we use? The one defined by the length of a pendulum whose period is 1 second? No that won't work, gravity is slightly different depending upon where you are on the earth.

Okay scratch that. How about the meter whose length is defined by one ten-millionth the length of the earth's meridian between a pole and the equator? Well no that won't work either because the Earth's surface isn't consistent; it gets flatter/slimmer what have you, like when that undersea earthquake occurred (the one that made the huge tsunami a few years ago). So that means the magical platinum bar (or is it platinum iridium?) from 1840 is actually .2 milimeters shorter than the definition would like you to believe.

Let's try again, maybe the measurement of the specific number of waves of a very precise wavelength from a krypton-89 atom? No too cumbersome; my super spy glasses that let me see wavelengths from atoms are at the repair shop.

Maybe the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458th of a second? That's certainly a circular definition. Why not make it 1/300,000,000th of a second so that it's a nice round number? Or sticking to the "metric" simplicity factor, why not 1/1,000,000,000th? Then everything's back to a power of 10 instead of a power of...30th?

WTF?

Why would we want to move to some system that arbitrarily decides we cannot be observant enough without magical tools to calculate some basic length? Or one that changes the definition of its basic measurement every few decades?

At least metric got it right for temperature, evenly distribute degrees across 0 to 100 where 0 is the temperature water freezes at 1 atmosphere and 100 is the temperature water boils, again at 1 atmosphere. Then again... doesn't it matter what impurities are in the water? I mean salt water doesn't freeze at 0...

Give me a rational system that doesn't require highly expensive tools to define and I'll be happy to switch to it.

I bought myself one of these a while ago to use for my laptop: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/keyboard/devices/190&cl=US,EN

The Logitech Alto. Basically it's a stand for your laptop with a keyboard and usb hub (powered, cord sold separately) for use with any laptop (provided you have USB ports).

When I first saw Eccleston in Dr. Who I was amused and entertained. He was a pretty good Doctor I thought (because I didn't remember seeing the older seasons).

Then when we got David Tennant in the series and watched him grow into the role more and more, he puts Eccleston to shame. After seeing Tenant and his jovial performance as the Doctor, going back to watch Eccleston's season just lets me see him as an angry pent-up Doctor.

At the end of the season finale when Rose goes back to the alternative universe and takes the human doctor with her, the real doctor says to her that the human one was born out of destruction and filled with rage, just like he was when he first met Rose. In that case, Eccleston did a wonderful job portraying the rage.

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear non-subjective view point, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey...stuff." -- The Tenth Doctor.

I think you mean loadlin, which is one of the boot loaders that linux can use. You boot into DOS and then run loadlin.exe to boot linux.

Or there was a method of installing Slackware into a FAT* filesystem using a UMSDOS kernel I think it was. This is the method that the supposed Tuxissa Virus used to download Slackware and install itself in the background before wiping out Windows. In fact here's another posting about the Tuxissa Virus that details its use of the UMSDOS filesystem.