Cathy Seipp has some words for Cindy Sheehan. And Howard Zinn.
Linux Problems
I’m trying to upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to Core 5. Unfortunately, my installation of Firefox seems to have a bug in it, in that I can’t download a file without crashing it. This means that I also can’t download Opera, or anything else. I’ve attempted getting the *.iso files via Bittorrent on my Windows machine, then dragging them over on the network, but I can’t get the sha1sum to match on them. The most shocking thing is that I don’t even have lynx installed, so I have no way to download files at all from the web.
I don’t know what to do at this point, except try FTP.
[Update a few minutes later]
Weirder and weirder. Every time I do a sha1sum on the disk1 iso, I get a different result. What is that all about?
[Update about 10:30 AM EDT]
OK, I seem to have wget. But what is the explanation for my sha1sum problem? If sha1sum isn’t giving reliable results, how can I know if I got a clean download?
[Update about 11:16]
Well, I’m wgetting the first two discs, and I’ll see if they work. Sha1sum is now giving consistent results (have no idea what was going on earlier), but consistently wrong, so I know the one I got yesterday is fubar (I burned a disk with it, and it failed testing). I’ll see what happens with these new versions I get via wget.
[Update about quarter till twelve noon]
OK, the wget downloads for discs 1 and 2 seemed to work, and I’m getting consistent sha1sums now (don’t match on yesterday’s, do match on today’s). I guess I’ll chance burning the disks with these. What concerns me is that I originally downloaded them a couple months ago, when Core 5 came out, and they checked out fine at that time (I just hadn’t gotten around to burning the disks). I am afraid that I’m having hard disk problems that corrupted them in the interim.
[Update at 2:30]
Uh oh.
When I checked the downloads they were all fine, and consistently showed the right sha1sum. I burned the disks, and rebooted. Once again, they all had errors on them. When I rebooted, and rechecked the sha1sums in today’s downloads, they’re coming up inconsistent–no same result twice.
I guess I’d better take the machine down and check all the drive connections. I’m also backing it up to another drive that I keep in the machine, but is usually unmounted. I may have to switch over to that one, and do a clean install.
Another “Historic Victory”
For Kyoto:
Translated: the developed countries realize they aren
Another “Historic Victory”
For Kyoto:
Translated: the developed countries realize they aren
Another “Historic Victory”
For Kyoto:
Translated: the developed countries realize they aren
Just A Few Shopping Days Left
Jon Goff says that we need to step up to the plate and comment on the latest NPRM from FAA-AST on experimental rocket licenses. Well, we don’t need moonbat comments, and it’s possible that the proposed rules are sufficiently reasonable that there is no need for further input from the industry (presumably there was a lot of industry input into their drafting). But there are just a few days left, so go read them, and comment, or forever hold your peace.
The Next Time Someone Says That Bush Is Inarticulate
…show them this rambling, incoherent interview by the leader of the House Democrats. I think that it would be a very effective campaign ad to show video of John Conyers, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid at their worst (and their worst is pretty bad), saying “Do you really want these people running your country”? It might even make a lot of donkeys think twice.
Iowahawk
…has been on a roll lately. First, he has the true-lie confessions of a special forces impersonator. And now, he provides us with the inevitable response of the “reality-based community” (I can never type that phrase without cracking up) to the fact that “Hot-Air America” (to use Ralph Nader’s wonderful phrase) is swirling down the bowl. Go read about 1-900-REALITY:
BREATHY FEMALE ANNOUNCER
1-900-REALITY
Is There A More Loathsome Politician?
…in the western world than George Galloway?
Fascists
What part of “Congress shall make no law” do the these morons not understand? It’s right up there, in the first words of Amendment Numero Uno.
Allen “co-sponsored legislation in March that would bring political Web sites under campaign finance rules if they spend $5,000 or more on their operations,” the paper wrote. “He said he would watch how blogs factor into the 2006 races under the FEC rules before deciding whether to press the issue.”