Just heard today that some doctors think the DMR of Vitamin D should be raised from 400 IUs to 1000. Cite reduced risk of colorectal cancer and type II diabetes.

If I were a real geek I'd post a link but I heard it on NPR.

A Duke University study disputes the statistic that China is graduating 600,000 Engineers a year. It also concluded that the US is actually graduating twice as many per year as previously thought (150,000 up from 70,000). The original 600,000 number seems to have come directly from the Chinese government and was parroted to the US Congress by a group of Nobel Prize winners. I don't know if the point of this is that we shouldn't trust governments or the people who make their living on government funding. Without government funding we wouldn't have a lot of things that we have right now. But really, to stoop so low.

The one about how difficult it is to upgrade a Linux system?

I think I understand! I tried to classify it as Mandriva - well someone got some drivel!

I was finally able to compile my Mandrake 8.2 kernel source last Sunday. Had to install gcc 3.0.4 to do it. gcc 2.95.14? would not work.

Mandrake 8.2 shipped two compilers one of which won't compile the kernel.