Raspberry Pi, the "$25 computer" running Linux, is finally being manufactured and the first units will be available at the end of January. I've used "$25 computer" in quotes because most of you know it by that name, however, the $35 computer known as Model B is the one is being manufactured. Model A ($25) will follow later on:

Many of us get caught up in our work on the computer and forget to take breaks. This can cause Repetitive Strain Injury. But Workrave comes to the rescue!

Workrave is a program for Linux and Windows that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). Workrave pops up and prompts you for a "micro break" or a longer exercise break at time intervals you determine. The app will even suggest anti-RSI exercises for your eyes, back and shoulders to help prevent backaches, headaches and carpal tunnel and comes with some nice statistics so you can see how long you have been working in the past days, etc.:

Year 2038 will see a problem with the computer dates, similar to the one of year 2000, but this time it's not as easy to fix the bug.

The problem in question arises on systems that use dates based on the POSIX system - someone came up with a way of representing the date as an integer, based on the number of seconds since January, 1, 1970 at 00:00:00.

In order to save this value you have to use an unsigned 32 bit integer, which means that the highest value obtainable is 2,147,483,647 - which will turn up to be in January, 19, 2038, time 03:14:07.