Why did you stop going?
We stopped going much years ago. We only do it for something that really needs a big screen. The only flick we saw this year for Top Gun: Maverick.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The New Normaling Of Blackouts
Don’t let them get away with this.
Frank Tipler
…still thinks we’re alone in the universe.
Job Hunting For Ex-Twitter Employees
Climate Alarmism
…is behind Christmas energy shortages.
And energy shortages in general.
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.
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.
Vega C
Arianespace has another failure.
I predicted years ago that Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it flew. I suspect that its executives are starting to figure that out now, and are going to have to stop denigrating, and instead start imitating, SpaceX.
Silicon-Valley Fraudsters
Are they today’s robber barons?
As Glenn notes, unlike the Carnegies, Rockefellers and J. P. Morgans, these robber barons haven’t given us much except toxic social media. The exception being, of course, Elon Musk.