Elon is starting to scout out sites.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Email Problems
I’ve got a problem, that my system administrator won’t help me with. My Trash folder on the server has grown to several gigabytes, and there is no way for me to empty it. It slows down getting and deleting mail, but Thunderbird crashes when I even try to load it. Here is the helpful email I got when I asked to simply delete it on the server (which I can’t do, because I don’t have root privileges–on my own hosted server).
“You’ll need to access your email accounts with a proper email client from your PC to clear them out. We can’t just delete the mail from the server, then the indexes are messed up. You need to be properly emptying your trash.
You have multiple Gigs of mail in the trash folders on the Simberg account. “
Note that this is nothing I don’t know, except I don’t understand why it would mess up indexes to delete the trash. Is that true?
[Update a while later]
OK, Tbird crashes, but I seem to be able to access it from Evolution. But there is no obvious way to empty it, other than to Expunge, which seems a little drastic, but maybe that’s what I have to do. And it doesn’t load all of the headers; it gets stuck at 99%.
[Update a while later]
Well, I hit “Empty Trash” in Evolution, and it seems to have done the job (even though Evolution says it’s still working on it).
OK, Evolution thinks it’s finished now. My next problem is that it’s not properly displaying my inbox. But now my web interface is much more manageable.
Privacy Tracking
If you don’t use a VPN, they know all about you. I’ve started using ExpressVPN. Now they think I’m wherever the server is (generally the Bay Area). I was looking at Home Depot, and it thought I was in San Jose.
Knots
This is useful info. I’ve never been great at it.
The New U.S. Space Command
…building a vision for the final frontier. It’s not yet a space force, but they’ll call it one to make Trump happy.
Anti-Aging Research
Breakthroughs will occur faster than you think.
I hope they occur faster than I hope, but at least I’m in good shape for my age.
Jessi Combs
This is sad, but she died doing what she loved.
[Update in the afternoon]
Here’s another story, but it says she was 39, not 36. Not that it matters.
The NASA IG
…has told Congress to butt out.
It will be interesting to see how they respond. Culberson isn’t there any more. I’m not sure that Shelby will care, as long as the money continues to flow to Huntsville.
[Update early afternoon]
Here’s the story from Space News.
Dorian
With the current track, the Cape is in the bulls eye. If it hits as a Cat 5, it could (finally) take out the VAB, which is only designed for a Cat 3. It might be a sign from God about SLS.
[Update a few minutes later]
I have to confess to being relieved, for the first time in a decade and a half, to not owning any property in Florida in hurricane season. Before we sold the house earlier this year, we did upgrade the siding, doors, and added a new window for impact, but the new owners will still have to decide if and how to shutter the old windows.
My Calcium Score
I had a scan done on Monday, and my score came out as a total of 17, most of it in my right coronary artery (my left was zero). This is in the bottom quartile, particularly for my age, but they still say I should get my cholesterol down to 200 (it’s currently about 240, with a good ratio and low tryglycerides, and has been for years) with medication, and cut out the saturated fat from my diet. What BS.