Bigelow Aerospace seems to be making good progress in developing private orbital facilities (a key component of a spacefaring infrastructure). Alan Boyle has more.
Fedora Update Update (Part N)
For those few of you who are fascinated/horrified by my computer travails, here’s the current status.
After removing Open Office and a Fortran compiler to resolve some otherwise unresolvable (at least by me) dependency issues, I finished the upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to Core 4 via yum update (at least I think I did–how do I know?). I rebooted, and it rebooted. I haven’t attempted to reinstall Open Office yet, so I don’t know if that will work, but flush with seeming victory over the machine, I decided to push my luck and go from Core 4 to Core 5.
Fight! Fight!
Scott Burgess dismantles Johann Hari on the subject of Bjorn Lomborg and global warming. I share Scott’s take on both issues. And it’s another demonstration of scientific ignorance, innumeracy and illogic, and agendas over reality, on the part of some (too many) members of the press.
Keeping Up To Date
The new New Space News is out.
Big Fat Law Suit
I hope you’re sitting down, so you won’t fall down in amazement when I tell you that Michael Moore has been accused of using an interview out of context. The interviewee is unhappy to the tune of eighty five megabucks. It should be an entertaining trial. Unless, of course, it’s settled out of court.
Revisit
On the occasion of Peter Diamandis winning the Heinlein Prize, I thought some of my readers might want to reacquaint (or introduce, if they haven’t had the pleasure) themselves with some of the great man’s books
And yes, if you’re wondering, I do get a cut (assuming that enough people purchase some to get me to the minimum). Think of it as an alternative means of tipping me, while getting in some good SF.
Missing Dependencies
Latest update on the Fedora upgrade saga:
Error: missing dep: libebook.so.8 for pkg openoffice.org
Error: missing dep: libedataserver.so.3 for pkg openoffice.org
Error: missing dep: libdb_cxx-4.2.so for pkg openoffice.org-libs
Error: missing dep: /lib/security/pam_loginuid.so for pkg openssh-server
Error: missing dep: gcc for pkg gcc-g77
Why is yum telling me this? Why doesn’t it just go out get the packages and fix it?
[Update about 11:15 AM EDT]
The Morality Of Human Enhancement
Ron Bailey has a report on a conference this past weekend.
New Fedora Update Problem
OK, I got through the update, but got the following error messages at the end:
Disturbing
I’m number three on a Google search for “wife s3x gropies.”
No, I didn’t find this by searching on those terms. It was in my referrer logs.