The mainstream press, that is.

MSNBC has an article about how regulations are more of a barrier than technology for opening up space. They talked to the right people (other than the fact that they didn’t talk to me, of course), and if we can get more articles like this, we may see more progress in getting the FAA and the government in general in synch with the reality needed to open up the frontier. Burt Rutan, prickly a character as he is, is doing a great service to the private space industry, by forcing issues.

The mainstream press, that is.

MSNBC has an article about how regulations are more of a barrier than technology for opening up space. They talked to the right people (other than the fact that they didn’t talk to me, of course), and if we can get more articles like this, we may see more progress in getting the FAA and the government in general in synch with the reality needed to open up the frontier. Burt Rutan, prickly a character as he is, is doing a great service to the private space industry, by forcing issues.

The mainstream press, that is.

MSNBC has an article about how regulations are more of a barrier than technology for opening up space. They talked to the right people (other than the fact that they didn’t talk to me, of course), and if we can get more articles like this, we may see more progress in getting the FAA and the government in general in synch with the reality needed to open up the frontier. Burt Rutan, prickly a character as he is, is doing a great service to the private space industry, by forcing issues.

Saddam-defending UK MP George Galloway was reportedly in the pay of Saddam Hussein. He was skimming funds from the oil for palaces program, and allegedly wanted an even bigger cut.

I’d be interested to see if similar connections can be found to Scott Ritter.

Saddam-defending UK MP George Galloway was reportedly in the pay of Saddam Hussein. He was skimming funds from the oil for palaces program, and allegedly wanted an even bigger cut.

I’d be interested to see if similar connections can be found to Scott Ritter.

Saddam-defending UK MP George Galloway was reportedly in the pay of Saddam Hussein. He was skimming funds from the oil for palaces program, and allegedly wanted an even bigger cut.

I’d be interested to see if similar connections can be found to Scott Ritter.

Check out the cover of the current issue of The Nation.

[Via Jim Oberg]

Liberal MPs say that strained US-Canadian relations are the fault of some Alliance MPs, because they’ve been writing and distributing articles pointing out anti-American positions and statements by Ottawa.

Did they think that absent such articles, we wouldn’t have noticed? Don’t they understand that they’re now insulting our collective intelligence, and not just that of the President?

Amazing.

The help would be from the computer types, the cry for it is from me.

One of the reasons I haven’t been posting much is because I’m taking care of some things that have been neglected for a while, one of which is putting a floppy back into my server that hasn’t had one for a while.

I’ve got two drives and two cables to play with. The connectors are keyed and will only go on one way (presumably, the right one, and it’s consistent with the IDE cables in terms of pin one).

I cannot get the light to go off on the drive. It comes on when powered up, and I get a floppy failure at POST. I know that this is usually a symptom of reversed cables, but there’s no way to get it wrong. I’ve tried it with both drives and both cables, and both connectors on both cables, with always the same result. The only common factor is the MB. Would a FD controller problem display this symptom? I hate to replace a MB without knowing for sure, but I can’t imagine where else the problem could be.

Nina Simone has sung her last note.