Is, according to NASA Watch, Bob Bigelow. Makes sense to me, but I don’t know how influential he is with the administration.
This Might Make Me Reassess Rumsfeld
If I gave a damn what John McCain thinks. I’m as mystified at the press’ worship of Senator McCain as I am by worship of Bill Clinton. I really don’t get it.
In Linux Hell
My Red Hat server has not had X running on it for months. Whenever I would upgrade, it would be unable to start the X server, and would give indications of a hardware problem. I bought a new video card for it, with no joy.
I recently decided to upgrade to Fedora. It stopped as it was trying to load the X upgrades, with a fatal error, telling me that it was either bad media (the CD passed a media check), inadequate disk space (it’s an almost-empty eighty gig drive), or a hardware problem. I replaced the motherboard with a different kind, thinking that the problem might be in the AGP section. Same result.
The worst thing is that since it only did a partial install, I can’t boot it any more, except in rescue mode from the CD. All of my data is still there when I mount the partition, so I’m trying to figure out how to back it up and just do a clean install, in hopes that this will finally get me around whatever the problem is. Does anyone have any thoughts as to other options, or just what the issue might be?
[Update a few minutes later]
Is there some way to get it to bypass the X installation, so I can at least complete the Fedora upgrade, and then try to fix X separately? For instance, if I do an install instead of an upgrade, is there some way I could deselect those packages, but still preserve the data in /home?
And Now For Something Completely Different
Bursting bras.
Now these guys (and Glenn) will know what to get her for Christmas.
Weeding The Garden
I’ve started cleaning up my blogroll, and you’ll see some subtle changes over to the left. I updated stale URLs, and promoted NASA Watch and Hobby Space from the outskirts of transterrestriality up into the “Space” section. I’ve also demoted some of the space bloggers for lack of posts. I’ve left Laughing Wolf there for now, even though there’s been little space-related content from him as of late, because I’m too lazy to figure out where else to put him. I’ve also set up an “AWOL” section for bloggers who have claim to have thrown in the towel, or simply disappeared, in hopes that some or all of them may reappear in the future.
I’ve also belatedly added Iowahawk to the humor section, though most of his stuff is about as funny as a screen door in an airlock. By the way, he’s celebrating his first blogiversary, so go over and read his annual report. I’ve also added Treacher and Frank J.
More to come, perhaps when I get time over the holidays.
What A Shame
The idiotic fashion fad of dressing like a gangbanger is (finally) dying.
Another Death On Bush’s Head
Another Death On Bush’s Head
Another Death On Bush’s Head
Go Watch A Shower
Sorry for the short notice–I should have said something sooner, but if you can get out of town, and the sky is clear, the best meteor shower of the year is tonight.
Jay Manifold has more, and actually had it over a week ago.
Again, sorry.