I got used to scrolling windows with the TrackPoint. So I wanted to get this functionality back. The trick is to put the following two lines in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "DevInputMice"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
        Option      "EmulateWheel"
        Option      "EmulateWheelbutton" "2"
EndSection

You may not want to enable this if you rely on the middle mouse button for pasting copied content in Linux.

A very good read of one person's opinion on how to end the war on terror.
How to win the war on terror

We keep reading every day about a new food that causes cancer, obesity or some other disease.  After reading this you will notice that simply any processed food is bad for you (Including Milk, fruit juice, soups, restaurant meals, all cereals) all in the name of profit.  The most interesting claim is that whole milk is better for you then low fat alternates, since the low fat alternates have powered milk added in as a filler, which contains Oxidized cholesterol (Bad).

WARNING: After reading you may want to move to Oklahoma and buy a farm and never enter a grocery store again:
http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/dirty-secrets.html

The Microsoft news these days regarding Vista, the next Office, and IE 7 is really boring me.  I do not ever recall feeling so little excitment for MS's OS releases before.  Well, I did not ever care for Windows ME but I was running Windows 2000 on my personal machines then.  I was looking for a Windows NT flavor built for the home user.  Windows XP has to be the best OS Microsoft has released, it merged the best parts of 95 with NT.  The boot time was the best seller of the product in my opinion.

Vista seems to be Microsoft's answer to a new release, but not a new OS.  Basically Vista is a UI overhawl that will just eat even more memory.

My goal is to never use another Microsoft OS after XP.  I will keep using XP and when I feel that I am forced to switch I will go to a flavor of Linux.  However, when the following apps are converted I will sooner:

Photoshop - Gimp doesn't have it all just yet.

Quicken - GnuCash is not at all a replacment.  I need online access to certain accounts, detailed budgets, a load of other features I use from Quicken.

Dreamweaver - I only use code editing in dreamweaver so I do not understand why I cannot find an app in Linux to do this.  However, I like Dreamweavers side bar's with all the files on a project level.

That's it!  I am already useing mostly open source/freeware tools in Windows, so other then the above a switch would be easy.

Finally the music industry is getting a taste of their own medicine!!

Arstechnica.com