Hearing that they’re extending it to tomorrow. Which means, as I noted on Twitter, that they’ll have to extend to Thursday, otherwise people will think that whatever they come up with is an April Fools joke.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
An Israeli Cancer Vaccine
…may prevent or cure 90% of cancer types.
Funny how you never hear about stuff like this coming from Islamic countries.
My USA Today Piece
A truncated version of this will be in the print edition tomorrow. Hope it boosts book sales.
Google Contacts
A new annoyance. I can’t just right-click to copy the email address, and I can’t even copy and paste — the only option I have is to send a mail from Gmail (which I only use in emergencies).
Climate Change And The Precautionary Principle
Judith Curry wonders if it is a “ruin” problem.
I continue to think it cries out for a serious regret analysis.
Climate Change
Here’s the original piece, on why the propaganda effort is (fortunately) failing.
Vandenberg
Bob Zimmerman was there recently, and took some pictures.
Space Access
I’ve put up an ad for the conference in my left sidebar. It’s probably the space conference with the most bang for the buck you can go to this year. I’ll be speaking there, but don’t let that keep you away.
Old-School Gearboxes
The lost art.
Brings back memories of my youth, and rebuilding MGs.
VirtualBox Problem
OK, I took previous advice and installed VirtualBox. It seems to work, but I want to mount a physical drive to it. It’s NTFS, and when I try to load the vmdk file for it, I get a permissions problem.
Failed to open the hard disk file /home/pat/VirtualBox VMs/Windows 8.1/VirtualBox\ VMs\ Windows\ 8.1.vmdk.
Permission problem accessing the file for the medium ‘/home/pat/VirtualBox VMs/Windows 8.1/VirtualBox\ VMs\ Windows\ 8.1.vmdk’ (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
Component: Medium
Interface: IMedium {05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac}
Callee: IVirtualBox {fafa4e17-1ee2-4905-a10e-fe7c18bf5554}
Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)
I’m running VB as a user, but a user doesn’t have permission to do a disk mount (also, the drive itself, when I mount it as admin, shows it owned and grouped as root, probably because it’s NTFS). The file itself is owned and grouped by the user. Any suggestions?