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Good points. But there is good evidence that infection with influenza does predisponse one to getting other infections due to the changes in mucocilliary clearance at least. And each year's influenza vaccine is actually a trivalent vaccine, though often two of the three are the same as the...

Well, hopefully Zone Alarm will at least restrict some programs from sending out my data. I get the point that when using wireless it makes good sense to use VPN. But what about when sitting at home or at work and on a regular LAN? Is there any point then, other than to prove that I can make...

hey all - so I was reading up on my university's wireless access and the VPN they suggest you use. This makes sense, as you don't want all your info floating about in the air unencrypted. Just for fun I downloaded the software (Cisco's) and it seems to run just fine. But should I bother...

Thanks. But why would I punch? So, can I just start emailing you stuff for you to edit and post? That would be great. Two years ago I wrote this 40 page paper on vaccines...think you could read it over and post it here for PW? ;)

Please explain how I'm being so naive? So far I've only tried to debunk your idea that somehow the pharmaceutical industry is behind the winter influenza epidemics and the coincidence of the appearance of each year's vaccine right before the epidemic hits, in addition to a few of your comments...

Agreed. And from what I've seen, the vast majority of people who study this topic believe the evidence that antibiotic resistance is a problem and is being made worse by the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, this topic is a staple topic in infectious disease courses in schools of public health...

I don't care if you're the secretary general of the World Health Organization. I believe Time had some great points here, and I seem to remember him not having any formal training in the health sciences (forgive me if I'm wrong Time). Disease eradication requires a number of key points...

make that www.tc.umn.edu/~calv0016/flu.html Don't know why the .html part is important, but i guess it is. Speaking of which, where's the edit botton?

Aight, I figured out how to FTP stuff up to my webpage. In case anybody is interested, I've got some goodies for ya'all. Adcadet's regular webpage: www.tc.umn.edu/~calv0016 Flu paper: www.tc.umn.edu/~calv0016/flu Paper on Kinin-induced secretion in the gut: www.tc.umn.edu/~calv0016/kinin.pdf...

For the record, sinusitis is simply inflammation of the sinuses. But usually when people refer to sinusitis they are refering to an infection. When refering to an allergy some people make a point of saying "allergic xxxx-itis (i.e.-allergic rhinitis)." Time is exactly right about the...

Sorry for the length. I was actually going for the greatest number of consecutive posts in a thread. What's the relation between influenza and other infections? I actually looked this up about a year ago, when it seemed I got influenza followed by a sinus infection (sinusitis) and was working...

And another one! Perhaps her potassium is nice and high, yet she's got the smushed bananas off her hands so she can actually type.

Hey everybody, look! No typos!

oh, sorry. One last thing: yes, I absolutely agree that drug companies try to make as much profit as they can get away with. I also think they often use slimy methods that range from normal business practices, to questionable, to outright immoral.

sorry that came out so messy. If you want a cleaner version, with nifty pictures, let me know and I can email it to ya. Adcadet acalvin@mmrf.org

Introduction In the winter of 1918-1919, a disease killed 21 million people worldwide. Despite the continued morbidity of this disease, today most people don’t understand the true public health impact of the “common cold.” Influenza virus, the cause of “the flu,” is an infectious virus that...

Ok, the last part there I *do* think happens with many drugs. Take hypertensive medications over the last few years. More and more docs have shifted away from using diuretics (cheap) and to ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers (expenstive) to manage hypertension. It can be argued that...

Ya lost me. Mid-winter flu. Not sure about the seasonal variation in influenza in Europe, but in the US winter influenza epidemics have been a fact of life for as long as anybody can remember. At least since 1918. How on earth is a pharmaceutical company going to alter flu patters, unless...

Knowing what I know now about this laptop, I would still buy it today. Sure, I would have loved to get the IBM version, but I don't have that kind of money laying around.

PW - what are you saying about pharmaceutical companies? I know they can be pretty sleazy, but are you suggesting that they create disease intentionally?

I'm sorry, the AES becomes pretty non-linear at that level of evil. When the scale was designed back in 1981 that level of evil was just not thought possible.

Aside from spreading evil, what do the marketing people claim it does? What does it really do (other than annoying people)?

Using the patented Adcadet Evil Scale (AES; where the evilness of the act (evil points)*frequency=AES value), I figure that automatically installing a monopolist's product (50 evil points) onto 95% of PCs is worth 47.5 AES's. The monkey's secret install is really evil (99 evil points), but it...

I hate Roxio. I suffered with their 3.5/4.0 (I think) releases that worked if heavily patched/but didn't really work in WinXP. I was pretty pissed at them until I discovered Nero. Now I'm all better, and Roxio free.

I went to MS, perhaps only because they have such ability to be so evil. Sure, the talking monkey may be evil, but he doesn't come pre-installed on >95% of PCs.l

My first laptop was a Toshiba (got it in 1998). My second laptop was an IBM (got it in 2000). My third laptop is a Dell (got it late 2002). I found the construction of my IBM to appear (superficially at least) superior to the Toshiba or Dell. In fact, I think some spots on the Dell's case...

I'm looking for an email client that will also brush my teeth. Will Mozilla Mail do that, or is that a feature coming out in the next release?

I'm sorry. I should have at least included an "other" category.

just wondering what everybody uses for a mail client. I mostly use my laptop (WinXP) for mail stuff, and I use Outlook. I decided to go with Outlook since it lets me sync my Palm Pilot with it's callendar, and it supports my multiple accounts, including IMAP. BUT, I prefer to use Evolution on...

as of late I've made it a point to spend a decent amount of time doing my browsing with all the major browsers - IE 6, Mozilla, Phoenix, Opera 7. I'm waiting to updrade to KDE3.1 to try out Konqueror with tabs, but that computer isn't in Linux much. Lately I've appreciated the IMAP mail client...

Sorry, no physiology. Just pure anatomy. I'll take medical school physiology in a year.

well, this is sortof happening already, but I really like the idea of *fast* wireless networking. I really want to be able to sit in ANY classroom at my university (not just some) and be able to surf the web. How else do my profs think I'll be able to tolerate things like 3 staight hours of...

I really like Opera so far - especially having the mail client built in. Yeah, I know, Mozilla does too, but I never really liked Mozilla's mail client. I'm just sick of how slow Outlook can be - even with my laptop's 5400 RPM HD, the disk swapping is very tiresome. Perhaps it's time to buy...

I'm getting a similar do-hicky, only with a red light at work to do my midnight vaginal smears. Nothing like blasting some poor rat with a ton of white light in the middle of the night right before poking her privates.

I haven't noticed any DRM issues. But then again, I haven't paid much attention.

has anybody tried the latest and greatest Windows Media Player from Redmond? I downloaded it thinking that I could just format my main HD and reinstall the OS if I didn't like it so much. So far it seems kindof nice, actually.

JTR - why not just watch the shows on your computer monitor?

I do like the idea of a video review. Isn't there someplace out on the web that does video reviews? I seem to remember the host being the person who writes them, so he actually knows what he's talking about. I find it irritating when people, even nearly naked women, stumble over computer...

Yes. Hence why I posted this AFTER I was accepted. Granted, I'm not physically there yet, but there's a spot waiting for me.

But did they have a forum and Reliability Survey results still?

if we decide to reduce down to the desktop and laptop, the laptop will definitely be mine. If she needs to use a computer, she gets the desktop. All my school/research stuff is and will continue to be on the laptop, so this should work fine. No pots and pans for Christmas? Well, my mother...

hey all - my fiance and I have been talking some more, and it seems we might want to turn my current desktop (Dual Athlon 1.2GHz, 512MB, two 19" monitors, etc) into a sortof media station. My fiance really likes cable TV, and she tends to record many shows for me (don't ask which ones...

...and certain other storage websites seem totally oblivious to this. :x

nice article LiamC! This is what we need to see more of.

ug. Yeah, I feel like a total computer ignoramous now. Oh well. See my sig.

AHHHH! Stupid mistake. OK, Evolution puts each mail account's email into it's own inbox. For some reaon the default inbox was set to my other account, and I didn't have the folder view option visible....so I've had a bunch of email in my university account, but just wasn't seeing it.

ok, I configured my mail account for my ISP which I rarely use. I can receive that mail. Must be something about my school's IMAP account.

Help...? Anyone...? Please....?

well, I'm not too keen on OCing my fiances computer, so the Celery 700 is out. The Celeron 800 is currently listed on Pricewatch for $50, and the faster ones actually get cheaper. At what point are the Celerons P4-based? Is it 1GHz? Will the board (440BX I'm pretty sure) support a Coppermine...