“The body is falling!”
Little kids who went to see the new release “Chicken Little” in a New York City theatre instead saw a movie of a young boy hanging himself.
He must have believed Chicken Little.
Sauce For The Gander
Steven Plaut says that France should offer “land for peace.”
First, until this plan is implemented in full, we must insist that the French government acknowledge that there is no military or police solution to the problems of violence in its suburbs, and only through recognizing the legitimacy of the demands of the murderers and rioters outside Paris can the problems be resolved.
Heh.
And not just to the rioters:
…we all agree that territory must not be annexed by force. Therefore, we can also agree that Germany has a moral right to demand the return of Alsace-Lorraine, for the French aggression in 1945 and its consequent occupation must not be rewarded. ”A full withdrawal for full peace” should operate here. Further, France must agree to the return and rehabilitation of all ethnic Germans expelled from Alsace-Lorraine after World Wars I and II, as well as all those they define as their descendents.
Wireless Problems
Is there a WPA expert in the house?
I can’t get my (new) Hawking PCI network adaptor to work with it. I’m using WPA-PSK, and I want to use a robust pass phrase, and I do in my D-Link DI-524 router (34 characters), but when I enter it into the client, it lops off everything after the first eight characters. And even when I shorten the phrase to eight characters on the router to get it to match, it still doesn’t work. The options that I have on the PCI adaptor are WPA2 and “Any WPA,” and I have the same problem with both of them. I’d really like to get a wireless network going here, but I don’t trust WEP. (Note, it works fine unencrypted.)
Does anyone have any thoughts?
The New Dark Ages
Mark Steyn says that the Eurabian war has started ahead of schedule, and that Charles Martel’s long-ago victory at Poitiers is in danger of being reversed:
”There’s a civil war under way in Clichy-sous-Bois at the moment,” said Michel Thooris of the gendarmes’ trade union Action Police CFTC. ”We can no longer withstand this situation on our own. My colleagues neither have the equipment nor the practical or theoretical training for street fighting.”
Vision
Blue Origin is moving and expanding its facilities in Seattle:
Blue Origin’s mission, according to a brief description on the company’s Web site, is developing reusable launch vehicles and technologies “that, over time, will help enable an enduring human presence in space…”
…During an interview that lasted a little over a half-hour, Bezos discussed his plans to develop reusable suborbital launch vehicles that could carry passengers nearly into space, the couple said.
Simpson said Bezos hoped to be able to begin offering commercial passenger flights within three to five years of the initial test launches, with the ultimate goal of helping humankind achieve space colonization “in his lifetime.”
Well, I’m glad to see that someone is working on this, since NASA obviously isn’t.
It’s Always Something
I’ve been spending the weekend getting stuff working after the hurricane.
I had to reaim the satellite dish, which turned out to be a major PITA, because the mast wasn’t (and has never been) vertical. So I had to shim up the base that it was attached to to get plumb, then reattach the dish, and reaim it. It was still tough, because the elevation indicator seemed to be miscalibrated, but if I’d had to do it with a cockeyed mast, it would have been much worse.
Then I started having computer problems. I have a brand new motheboard, Sempron CPU and gigabyte of DDR 4200 RAM in my main (Windows) machine, and it’s been fine until last night, when I got up this morning to find that it woke up dead. I rebooted, and it came up, sans mouse, and after it was on a while, I started to get strange patterns on the screen af which point it locked up again. After trying this several times, it eventually quit booting at all.
Anyone have any theories? The problem is that this is the first mobo of its generation that I’ve bought, so I’ve got no other processors or memory to swap out to see if they’re the problem. The only thing that I can hope is that the video card has died, which I can test with another.
I’m posting this from my Fedora box, if anyone is wondering. I also have a couple laptops, so it’s not urgent–just annoying.
[Update on Sunday]
I finally got around to playing with this. I swapped out the video card, and it booted right up…
It’s Always Something
I’ve been spending the weekend getting stuff working after the hurricane.
I had to reaim the satellite dish, which turned out to be a major PITA, because the mast wasn’t (and has never been) vertical. So I had to shim up the base that it was attached to to get plumb, then reattach the dish, and reaim it. It was still tough, because the elevation indicator seemed to be miscalibrated, but if I’d had to do it with a cockeyed mast, it would have been much worse.
Then I started having computer problems. I have a brand new motheboard, Sempron CPU and gigabyte of DDR 4200 RAM in my main (Windows) machine, and it’s been fine until last night, when I got up this morning to find that it woke up dead. I rebooted, and it came up, sans mouse, and after it was on a while, I started to get strange patterns on the screen af which point it locked up again. After trying this several times, it eventually quit booting at all.
Anyone have any theories? The problem is that this is the first mobo of its generation that I’ve bought, so I’ve got no other processors or memory to swap out to see if they’re the problem. The only thing that I can hope is that the video card has died, which I can test with another.
I’m posting this from my Fedora box, if anyone is wondering. I also have a couple laptops, so it’s not urgent–just annoying.
[Update on Sunday]
I finally got around to playing with this. I swapped out the video card, and it booted right up…
It’s Always Something
I’ve been spending the weekend getting stuff working after the hurricane.
I had to reaim the satellite dish, which turned out to be a major PITA, because the mast wasn’t (and has never been) vertical. So I had to shim up the base that it was attached to to get plumb, then reattach the dish, and reaim it. It was still tough, because the elevation indicator seemed to be miscalibrated, but if I’d had to do it with a cockeyed mast, it would have been much worse.
Then I started having computer problems. I have a brand new motheboard, Sempron CPU and gigabyte of DDR 4200 RAM in my main (Windows) machine, and it’s been fine until last night, when I got up this morning to find that it woke up dead. I rebooted, and it came up, sans mouse, and after it was on a while, I started to get strange patterns on the screen af which point it locked up again. After trying this several times, it eventually quit booting at all.
Anyone have any theories? The problem is that this is the first mobo of its generation that I’ve bought, so I’ve got no other processors or memory to swap out to see if they’re the problem. The only thing that I can hope is that the video card has died, which I can test with another.
I’m posting this from my Fedora box, if anyone is wondering. I also have a couple laptops, so it’s not urgent–just annoying.
[Update on Sunday]
I finally got around to playing with this. I swapped out the video card, and it booted right up…
Profound Historical Parallel
“Rusty” over at sci.space.history says:
The Chinese space program is similar to the early American space
program.Except, Tang is one of the astronauts.
Poetic Justice
This moron would have been better off if he’d stolen a belt.