Pete Zaitcev asked for a screen shot. Here are two.
This is the screen where it hangs up for several minutes before going into install mode.
And this one is the cryptic message that I get. I have no idea what it’s looking for here.
One Less Thing To Worry About?
Is the Yellowstone caldera fizzling out?
This adds to suggestions that the plume has disconnected from its heat source in the Earth’s core. If this is true, it means the plume could be dying – and that the sequence of mega-eruptions could come to an end. “If it doesn’t have clear source, as it rises eventually the plume will die out,” says Schutt.
Let’s hope so. A Yellowstone explosion could be a civilization-ending event, and there’s not much we can do to prevent it, at least with current technology.
Perseids
It’s that time of year again. They peak tonight (or rather, early tomorrow morning). Be sure to get out of town, though. You won’t see any but the very brightest with city lights around.
Any Minute Now
James Lileks awaits the war protesters. In vain.
The anarchists aren’t up on it. Nothing from the central Green party. But it’s possible they’re just getting their blast emails out, alerting everyone to the upcoming World Can’t Wait / Protest Imperialistic Imperialism Protest, complete with giant mocking paper-mache puppets of Putin with black oil dripping from his fangs. Who here can do a Putin? C’mon people, I need a big Putin. This international cabal isn’t going to collapse on its own! It needs the sort of humiliating defeat only a large, three-dimensional effigy borne on the streets of a Western city in full view of bored policemen can bring.Yes, any day now: the streets will be filled with protestors.
Mao is denounced as well.
Curing Diabetes
…with lettuce? If this is true, it seems like a pretty big breakthrough.
New Fedora Laptop Issue
OK, when we last left our intrepid laptop, it couldn’t install Fedora. Following advice in comments there, I tried a live version of Ubuntu, and it had no problem, other than telling me that it didn’t have an open-source driver for the WLAN. Then I tried Fedora again. It hung up as it did before, but I went away and ignored it, and when I came back after a while, it had finally booted into the installer. Apparently I just hadn’t been patient enough the last time.
Now, after selecting languages, it gives me a message saying “No driver found” It tells me that there is no driver for this installation for the device, and asks me if I want to install manually, or if I have a disk. When I try installing manually, it gives me a drop-down list of every driver for every device known to Linus. The only problem is that it doesn’t tell me what device is causing the heartburn.
Any suggestions? I’m guessing that it might be the wireless, because of the message on Ubuntu, but who knows?
[Update a few minutes later]
The exact (cryptic) message is “Unable to find device type needed for this installation type.”
Huh?
Random Saturday Morning Thought
You know you’re an Internet troll when you get complaints from the moderator at /dev/null.
Back To The Sunshine State
I’m catching a plane back to Florida in a bit, so probably no more posting until tomorrow, since I don’t get in until late tonight. I get to go through DFW, so they get (at least) two chances to lose my suitcase this time. But they apparently only need one.
[Saturday morning update]
Arrived late last night, with suitcase. Now to catch up on all the things that didn’t happen while I was out of town.
Nearing The End?
Robert Block is wondering if the Stick is dying. I liked this bit:
In the face of the latest reports of trouble, sources say that NASA leaders are looking at a possible replacement design, including one that would use the shuttle’s two four-segment solid rocket boosters, and a liquid engine with four RS-68 engines and no upper stage. While it sounds similar to a rocket called the Jupiter 120 or the Direct 2.0 concept which is being proposed by moonlighting NASA engineers, the sources insist it is not the same.
Yes. I have a literary theory that the Iliad and the Odyssey weren’t written by Homer, but by another blind poet with the same name.
The New Brown Shirts
Glenn explains:
No doubt they all go around exchanging Obama Salutes and clicking their heels…
But don’t call them a cult!
I guess that it really is all about the “O.” Sabine Ehrenfeld is still a lot hotter, though. At this point, given the other choices on the menu, I’m ready to sign up for a Sabine/Paris ticket. Too bad she was born in Germany.
I suspect that Senator Obama’s fans may prove to be his worst enemies.
[Update a while later]
Ace has more.