…while human spaceflight burns. My latest thoughts on our Congressional space-policy follies, over at PJMedia.
[Afternoon update]
As usual with space pieces, the comments over there are painfully ignorant.
OK, Different Computer Question
I’ve got her machine set up as Windows native, installed on SSD. Her old Windows drive, with her old files, is hooked up to it. She can see it fine from Windows. But while she was using Linux, she’d been writing to an LVM drive, which was originally a backup, but now has some changes on it from the old drive.
I’m running Fedora as a virtual machine, and it seems to be running fine (so far). I’ve attached the old Windows drive to the physical machine, and it shows up in Nautilus and other file managers. But when I try to access it, I get a message that it’s an NTFS drive with problems, and I can only mount it read-only. It suggests I repair.
So, is this caused by the fact that its already mounted and in use by Windows? Seems a little strange, since the virtual machine probably wouldn’t know that. Windows doesn’t have a problem with it. Bigger question: Can/should I try to repair it as an unmounted drive from the virtual machine using e2fsck? That is, does e2fsck repair NTFS drives? And what is the risk if I don’t attempt to back it up first?
D-Day
It’s not an anniversary ending in 0 or 5, but it’s worth remembering that generation, and what they gave us. And what some of their children have partially destroyed.
Bloomberg
Could he take on Hillary? Probably. THe question is whether he’d win, or if it would open up the field. Not that the Dems have much of a bench.
Potatoes
It won’t be perfect until they can reduce the glycemic issues. Via @Instapundit.
OS Follies
Sound works fine in Fedora. Sounds works fine in Virtual Windows machine running in Fedora. Boot native into Windows 8.1, and no sound. Windows troubleshooter says there’s no problem. I’ve updated the Realtek drivers. Everything looks great on Windows, except no sound out of the speakers. And of course, Fedora running virtual on Windows doesn’t have sound, either, because it only sees what Windows sees.
She wasn’t happy running Windows as virtual in Fedora, but that seems to be the only way to get sound.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Well, I’ve sort of solved the problem, but it’s still not right. I unplugged from the rear, and re-plugged into the front jack, and RealTek sees it now. For some reason, it’s not seeing line out in the rear, even though it works fine in Linux. So we have sound, but it’s sort of a PITA to have to use the front jack, and keep the door open.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
Well, this is apparently not an uncommon problem.
Went to the MSI web site to download the latest RealTek driver, and it doesn’t recognize the hardware. So current MS driver may be the best I can do until they update.
Paul Ehrlich
Razid Khan has a defense of him. But not a very robust one. As I noted to Razid on Twitter, while we are certainly capable of extincting ourselves, it won’t be from resource depletion.
We’re In The Midst Of A College Revolution
…and the “liberals” are leading it:
At this point I have to ask: Where has Schlosser been the past year? He talks about the erosion of professors’ abilities to teach their students topics that may challenge their worldview. But how has he missed that liberal politicians have already adopted the position that an accusation is all the evidence one needs?
California passed “yes means yes” last year, a law that makes it far easier to accuse someone of sexual assault and provides no due process rights to those accused. States across the country have introduced similar bills. U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill are pushing for a national law that also erodes due process rights.
And the same people pushing for trigger warnings and safe spaces are pushing the “terrifying” policy that accusations equal guilt.
It’s great that Schlosser and others have finally realized the problems on college campuses, but they still have a lot to learn.
Yes, they don’t realize that they created this monster.
[Update a few minutes later]
The lowest-paid and least secure in the system are adjuncts.
[Update a few minutes later]
Jonathan Chait: The liberal backlash against campus PC is in full swing.
Josh Marshall is unimpressed, too:
In other words, Kipnis wrote a sharp-tongued, one-dimensional caricature of university sexual assault and trigger warning activists at Northwestern. And they turned around and proved her one-dimensional caricature 100% right.
Yup.
The Power Of Instapundit
His link to the Kickstarter today (plus his generous contribution) put me almost a third of the way to the goal.
OK, well, not sure that Jeff Garzik’s $1000 contribution was a result of that link, but thanks! I’ll try to give money’s worth.
[Friday-morning update]
Got my first $500 contributors overnight, and almost halfway to the goal.
[Afternoon update]
Past the halfway mark, with eleven days to go.
But Will They Do The Dishes?
Chimpanzees would cook if given the chance.