Too many of these suggestions are impelling you to try different gadgets to fix what is a bio problem.

You need to work out.

Over a year ago, I was starting to get the beginning stages of RSI. I smoke and was really overweight. I had never been to a gym.

The thing that fixed my wrists was pushing weights. Putting aside the other workout stuff I do (biking, rowing, and moderate running) because they don't pertain to this discussion, moderate weight lifting is key.

The muscles and tendons in your wrist are weak. Mine certainly were. Adding to that the 8-10 hours a day of keyboard typing, you develop RSI.

When I started using weight machines, my wrists were numb and I had flexibility problems. Simply using upper-body weight machines for several months quickly helped to increase my upper body strength, but more importantly let my wrists develop strength they didn't have before. Ever since my wrist problems have completely vanished.

So yes, ergonomic keyboards are definitely useful, even though I don't personally use one. The text editor you're using has absolutely to fucking do with problems with your wrists. Get an ergo keyboard if you feel like it. It won't hurt and will probably help.

However, if you absolutely want to solve your pain you need to work out. Pushups and upper-body workouts are what you need. No body-building crazy shit, just moderate strength training 2-4 times a week for a half an hour at a time.

On the broader workout subject, weight lifting is the fun part of the workout for me. The biking/rowing bit are just tedious calorie burners. When you lift the weights, you're immediately releasing endorphins into your system. So after a good session, you actually feel good.

Because it only offers a marginal improvement of XP. It is the same thing as DVD vs Blu Ray. To a videophile, the difference is obvious. To a normal person, the difference is noticeable, but irrelevant.

Vista is blu ray and I suspect that windows 7 will be as well. I honestly think we've reached a point in desktop OS development where the average user simply does not care anymore. Things are moving onto the web now. People care about facebook doing a redesign, they do not really care what their desktop looks like beyond "does it work?".

I have dealt with qmail for ten years. It is a complete joy once you have it up and running. You literally can stop thinking about it because it always works. However, getting it up and running requires adding in antispam, antivirus, virtual mailboxes, some additional protective and administrative patches, some extra stuff for SMTP-AUTH, SSL/TLS, reporting, and perhaps a few more patches for fun.

Patches, you say? Well, I'm glad you really like source code, because that's exactly what you'll be dealing with to get all of this up and running. I've done it many times before manually and it takes around ten hours to do it.

While Aaron's point is that djb's code, vision and discipline are possibly unmatched (I concur on all counts), the software (principally qmail) is antiquated in the sense that nobody needs just that one part in order to run a semi-modern email system.

So, as you start downloading the .tgz for qmail and begin studying it like good campers, remember that this wonderful code is, by itself, not up to the job that it purports to serve.

-- Lots of love,

Someone who currently runs two qmail systems and will never go to the trouble of setting one up again