I didn’t watch Dan’s last broadcast (following my pattern for the past twenty-plus years).
I thought that low ratings would be the fittest ending to his ignoble career.
Visualization
Jack Benny used to say about a fellow comedian that “nobody knew what a cramp looked like until Fred Allen was born.” Well, along those lines, Jeff Foust can now point at a physical instantiation of a budgetary earmark.
Heap Big Wampum
Apparently, copyright violation, academic fraud, resume padding, and vile mindless leftist rants calling for the overthrow of the US government are healthy activities for one’s bank account, at least if you’re employed by the University of Colorado:
CU’s buyout offer will be in the “$3-$5 million range – possibly higher”
Hmmmm…not a bad payoff for Chief Pants-On-Fire.
If CU is seeing their out-of-state admissions fall now, just wait until the news of this gets out. Not to mention what may happen to alumni donations.
The link also links to a story about a professor who they have managed to release, with no buyout. But that was different–it was apparently because he’s a (presumably untenured) Christian. Can’t have that.
[Update about 12:45 PM EST]
The Pirate Ballerina site seems to be down, for those wondering why the link was dead. But it was a link to a story at the Rockey Mountain News.
Gunga Dumb
Definitely Not Pro-Life
Virginia Postrel usefully points out (once again) the bifurcation of the anti-cloning activists’ agenda.
Mighty Mouse
Phil Bowermaster has some interesting thoughts about making mice smart.
Dominoes
A lot of nostalgic lefty anti-war types have been warning us for years that Iraq was going to be just like Vietnam. Claudia Rossett says that they may be right. But they won’t be as happy about it as they think they will.
It kind of reminds me of an old joke that a USC grad told me, back when their football program was in the doldrums in the eighties. He said that his nightly prayer had been that USC would have a basketball program as good as its football program. And he finally got his wish.
Heh.
The (Non) Case For Heavy Lift
Taylor Dinerman has a piece on heavy lifters in this week’s issue of The Space Review that I find a little frustrating, on several levels.
I get heartburn right out of the gate:
The consensus is that the Vision for Space Exploration requires a new heavy-lift launch vehicle
Samba Problems
Is there a Samba expert in the house?
I’ve got a machine running Fedora Core 3, and I can’t get Samba, or Swat to work properly. The Samba server seems to be running, and the machine shows up in my network neighborhood from the Windows client, but when I click on it, I get a “network path not found” message. The smbd and nmbd services seem to be running on the server.
When I try to log in to Swat from the server (even as root), I get a “connection refused” message.
I’m looking at the configuration. According to the troubleshooting guides, the xinetd.conf file should be looking for it in /usr/sbin/swat, but that file doesn’t seem to exist, even though I installed the full Samba package. When I do a “locate swat” the binary doesn’t show up anywhere–only the configuration file of that name in /etc/xinetd.d. The config file right now actually has this line (which I probably inserted as a result of some other troubleshooter):
swat stream tcp nowait.400 root simberg /usr/sbin/tcpd swat
Is that right? There is at least a program “tcpd” with that path.
The troubleshooting guides I’ve found all leave much to be desired. They will tell you to check if something is happening, but no guidance on what to do if it isn’t.
Anyone know what’s going on?
Oh, and yes, before anyone asks, this (among other reasons) is why posting is sparse.
[Update at 12:45 PM EST]
OK, thanks to help from the comments section, I’ve theoretically got swat installed. But still no joy–it refuses the connection. Now what?
I Can’t Help But Wonder
…why Harry Stonecipher was really fired.
He wasn’t popular, particularly with a lot of the former McDonnell Douglas people, and a lot of people think that he’s been doing with Boeing’s aircraft business the same thing that he did with theirs–running it into the ground, with Boeing now second place to Airbus. Certainly the Sonic Cruiser was a bad joke.
I’d like to know what the rest of the story is.