I’m sorry, but I just got tired of the idiotic creature’s flooding the zone with imbecility. I could not take it any more.
Category Archives: Administrative
Off The Air
I’m heading up to Alaska for a couple days, but I’ll take a laptop, so probably check in tonight.
[Update a while later, somewhere over northern California]
OK, they have wireless on the flight. So I may do some updates.
The Douchenozzle
I’ve kind of gotten tired of its moronic trolling. I haven’t banned many people from this site, but does anyone think that the creature contributes anything of value, other than demonstrating how moronic leftists are? Which needs little demonstration?
Google Play
Has anyone out there purchased an ebook of the book there?
Incommunicado
We went up to the the California central coast for the weekend. Likely light blogging until Sunday night or Monday.
The “Mark Fergusson” Troll
OK, since the creature has nothing but ad hominem, and has been using multiple email addresses (152.130.15.12, 66.44.31.203), I’ve decided to take the rare action of banning the troll.
Off To Mordor On The Potomac
On a plane heading to Reagan Airport, and the Space Transportation Conference. I’ll check in later.
[Afternoon update]
Arrived at my hotel on upper Connecticut Avenue.
Books
My radio silence today was due to the fact that I spent most of it getting books in the mail. Almost everyone who gets a signed book, who has given me shipping information, should be getting one soon. Still have to get out unsigned ones, but that will be easier, and will probably happen Monday, as will the furriners (including Canucks). Any stragglers are local people (e.g., Mojave) who will be getting theirs in person next week some time.
My Book
For those wondering, no, I don’t know why a print-on-demand book is showing as unavailable at Amazon. I called them about it yesterday, and they’re supposed to be looking into it, but they haven’t gotten back to me. I suspect it may not be resolved until after Christmas, at this point.
Weird Linux Problem
After a reboot, I was trying to save a file to a subdirectory of my $HOME directory, and getting an error that it was a read-only drive. When I look at permissions, I’m seeing something like this:
drwxrwxr-x. 2 simberg simberg 4096 May 29 2013 Alaska
drwxrwxr-x. 5 simberg simberg 4096 Apr 26 2012 Blog
drwxrwxr-x. 2 simberg simberg 4096 Jun 19 2012 CA_Enterprise_Zones
drwxrwxr-x. 7 simberg simberg 4096 Jun 19 2012 Conservative_Space
drwxrwxr-x. 2 simberg simberg 4096 Aug 9 2012 Depots
drwxr-x—. 6 simberg simberg 4096 Dec 21 14:49 Interglobal
drwxrwxr-x. 3 simberg simberg 4096 Dec 3 2010 LaunchSpace
drwxrwxr-x. 2 simberg simberg 4096 Nov 5 2012 LEO_Adventure
drwxrwxr-x. 2 simberg simberg 4096 Jun 19 2012 Liberty
I’ve never seen that dot after the permissions before, and it seems to be an ACL-related thing. Does anyone know how this happened, and how to undo it?
[Update a couple minutes later]
Also, could this be related to an inability to print? It thinks it’s sending something to the printer (which it sees), but it never actually happens.
[Update a while later]
Well, whatever the problem was, a reboot fixed it, as well as the printing problem.