Daily Archives: April 29, 2008
Installing Ubuntu vs Installing Microsoft Vista
I recommend partitioning your hard drive so that you have a small partition for the system and a large partition for the /home directory.Now, for a point of comparison, how to install Windows Vista… … how well this goes will depend on the machine you want to install Vista in: Continue reading Installing Ubuntu vs Installing Microsoft Vista
Orangutans Are Amazing
This is a photograph of a male orangutan attempting to spear a fish. Continue reading Orangutans Are Amazing
Carnival
The Dessert Course of the (second) Soup To Nuts Progressive Dinner Blog Carnival is Here at Fear and Loathing…
Francisco Ayala Proflied in NYT
An evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, he speaks often at universities, in churches, for social groups and elsewhere, usually in defense of the theory of evolution and against the arguments of creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design.Usually he preaches to the converted. But not always. …
Read the rest at: Roving Defender of Evolution …
Hans Reiser Convicted of First Degree Murder
Hans Reiser, who developed the Reiser File System, was convicted yesterday of First Degree Murder. He was accused of killing his wife, who’s body was never recovered.The Reiser Filesystem is thought to be one of the best journaling file systems available for Linux computers. However, since Reiser’s incarceration under suspicion of murder, the usual maintenance and development of the file system that may have otherwise occurred has not happened, so relatively few people have deployed it and major distributions tend to shun it as a default. Continue reading Hans Reiser Convicted of First Degree Murder
Louisiana Moves Towards Creationism Law
Florida House Academic”Freedom”Bill
The Florida House yesterday voted to require teachers to criticize evolution when teaching the subject in Florida public schools. The house version of the bill will now, most likely, travel back to the Senate (where a similar bill, was recently passed). Governor Charlie Crist is not talking about whether or not he will sign the bill.
“What this bill does is tell the teacher, go ahead and teach the theory of evolution and make sure your students have a complete view of that theory and they know that it is only a theory, it is not gospel law,” said Rep. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla. “There’s no proof that any species has transitioned from one thing to another.”
You can read about it here, and add your comments to the news web site.