From Dave Barry.
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Climate Alarmism
…is behind Christmas energy shortages.
And energy shortages in general.
Merry Christmas To All
To all of my faithful readers.
And if you don’t want a merry Christmas, don’t have one. No one’s holding a gun to your head.
New Linux Problem
When I did the latest Fedora install, it created a home directory for me called “randsimberg.” I always name my directory “simberg,” so I did a ‘mv randsimberg simberg’. Now I can’t launch a terminal, because the bash script is looking for the “randsimberg” directory.
Fun.
A Good Start
Utah has eliminated the degree requirement for 98% of its civil-service jobs. Now let’s see other states follow suit, and fully pop that higher-ed bubble.
The Ideological Capture Of Our Scientific Institutions
At the end of this road lies Lysenkoism. It’s what happens when the government is the primary funder of scientific research.
Linux Problem
I’m trying to install on a new machine with Windows, and the LiveCD boots, but it doesn’t seem to see the keyboard or mouse. I can boot from Windows and another Linux drive, but when I boot from the LiveCD to do an installation, it just ignores me. Any ideas?
[Saturday-morning update]
OK, buy jiggering with the BIOS and UEFI settings, I managed to get it to boot. It says it installed Fedora on the drive that I shrunk the Windows partition. But when I reboot it without the USB key, I don’t get grub; it just boots into Windows. Now what?
[Update a while later]
OK, I don’t know why the BIOS wasn’t seeing it, or why I couldn’t add it, but Windows was seeing it. I forced Windows to load it on boot by editing the boot manager, so it seems to be working now.
[Update a while later]
OK, new problem. Grub is coming up now that I played around in Windows, but it’s making Fedora the default, which is a problem because I’m the only one who will be using it, and only a few times a year. I’ve read through all the instruction about changing it in Fedora, but they don’t show the Windows bootloader, and when I look at it in Windows, I don’t see anything except Windows, so I can’t change the order there, either.
[Update a few minutes later]
Success! I used this program to reconfigure grub, and although Linux is still at the top of the order, Windows now has an asterisk, and is the new default.
Just What We Needed
If you die in the game, you die in real life.
This seems quite Darwinian.
What A Shame
Rogozin was wounded in a visit to Ukraine.
The FBI’s Response
The KGB would be proud.
And the purge begins.