OK, I’ve copied /var, but I can’t kill X so that I can unmount it–I’ve knocked off all the other processes, but gdmgreeter, etc. keep coming back like zombies.
How do I put a stake through its heart (at least long enough to umount /var), without a reboot at a lower sysinit level (because I’m still afraid to reboot given the partial update of yum)?
The Mugabe (mis)government has come up with a novel solution to inflation:
Official sources said the recent 150 percent pay rise for soldiers, teachers, policemen and nurses had put a strain on money supply.
Reserve Bank officials told IRIN that plans to print about Zim$60 trillion (about US$592.9 million) were briefly delayed after the government failed to secure foreign currency to buy ink and special paper for printing money.
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “not worth the paper it’s printed on.”
This whole article almost reads like something from the Onion, it seems so absurd, but it seems to be a real story. Has any nation in recent history declined so far as the current Zimbabwe has from the Rhodesia of the sixties, then one of the richest nations on the African continent?
Franklin Chang-Diaz wants to build magneto-plasma rockets. In Central America.
Doing the jobs Americans won’t do, I guess.
Glenn notes an article about how the obesity wars have moved into the schools.
…like other misguided public health campaigns (remember “Just Say No”?), putting children on de facto diets at school just doesn’t work. In a 2003 experiment involving 41 schools, more than 1,700 children
…springs to life in England:
Single Paul, of St Leonards, East Sussex, told how he yelled that he would report the railman
The Simpsons as philosophy.
[Via Geek Press]
Apparently, our ancestors and chimps just couldn’t keep their hands off each other:
The researchers, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, propose that humans and chimpanzees first split up about 10 million years ago. Then, after evolving in different directions for about 4 million years, they got back together for a brief fling that produced a third, hybrid population with characteristics of both lines.
That genetic collaboration then gave rise to two separate branches, one leading to humans and the other to chimps.
This will no doubt drive the creationists ape.
[Via The Speculist]
Australian model Michelle Leslie explains why she wore a burqa. Unfortunately, even wearing one isn’t sufficient to prevent abuse of women, since it’s endemic. But hey, it’s just another culture, right? And cultures are good.
I just noticed the MediaBistro poster’s name: Patrick Gavin. A man. I guess we all look alike to him.
Lileks reviews the Da Vinci Code (book, not movie). He’s less than impressed. One suspects that he’ll leave the money in his wallet, and save himself the time out of his life that seeing the movie would involve.