Penguins Unbound (the web site for the Monthly Meeting of Linux Enthusiasts) announces the Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party and Install Fest for October 30th, 2010 at 10:00am to 4:00pm at TIES on Snelling Avenue in Falcon Heights (which you may know of as Saint Paul), Minnesota.
Monthly Archives: October 2010
This is our future if the teabaggers take over
Richard will dissipate
Former hurricane Richard will dissipate in the southern Gulf of Mexico. At the moment, the satellite view of the storm is interesting, because it looks like a well organized and properly shaped skeleton of a hurricane:
Rand Paul Thuggery
In light of this recent story of Rand Paul reporters wrestling a woman to the ground and stepping on her head, I decided to post this political campaign note from Jack Conway’s campaign, because it contains parallel (and rather disturbing) information:
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Paul is dead.
And I’m not talking about what you hear when you play the album backwards …
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The most important human adaptation: The Podcast
The Ration of Reason is a new science nature and skeptics podcast in which podcaster Matt Johnson and sometimes Samantha Johnson read selected science, nature, or skeptic related blog posts.
Today’s installment includes one of mine (“The most important human adaptation“): Ep. 4: Ostriches Don’t… Most Important Human Adaptation and One-Way Mars Missions.
Check it out!
“If I had a gun, I’d come after you, you SOB.”
That’s what one of my fellow Minnesotans, a gun-nut proto-teabagger, said to Paul Wellstone after he was elected to the Senate, and was busy opposing Gulf War I. There were many other threats as well, once again demonstrating that right wingers are often rude, sometimes violent, and always obnoxious.
This comes up now because Paul Wellstone’s FBI file is suddenly in the public eye.
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Homeland Security Oversteps Bounds
Alaska Teabagger uses US Military Guards to Detain, Threaten Journalists
And in this case, the teabagger is an actual tea party candidate, in the sense that the Republican Party is the Tea Party and Joe Miller is the Republican Nominee for the Senate.
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Richard in the Belize
Hurricane Richard is now Tropical Storm Richard, and is weakening rapidly. When this storm passes over the Gulf of Mexico, it is not expected to gain strength, but rather, will be torn asunder by the forces of nature and stuff and will dissipate.
Richard knocked out power and messed up a bunch of roofs, but the news from Belize seems to indicate that the storm was not a disaster.
Will there be a Shary (that’s the next name on the list of hurricane names for this season in the Atlantic). Maybe. There’s a stormy area in the middle of the Atlantic that may develop, but not for a least a few days.
Whitman vs. Brown
Art Robinson vs. Rachel Maddow. Advantage, Maddow.
This guy is not interested in anything but hearing is own voice. Obviously he knows exactly where the money is coming from.
Windows vs. Linux: Boot Time Test
It should not really matter how long it takes to boot your OS. Why? Because a good OS will start up once after a major system upgrade, then stay on forever after unless there is a power failure. If you want to shut down the computer you can hibernate the state to keep all your apps ‘running’ and files ‘open.’ You never really need to reboot, so why worry if a boot takes one minute, two, or three?
Unless, of course, your operating system is Windows. In this case, it matters a LOT how long it takes to reboot because you have to reboot the damn thing every time somebody’s hat falls off. So, Windows booting time is important.
JH at Linux in Exile has done a number of Windows/Linux boot comparisons. His results to date have always shown Windows to be slower. Many people insist that there are data that show that Windows is always faster. I personally know that Windows is slower because my wife and I have fairly similar laptops, but mine runs Linux and hers is a managed Windows system. When we both turn our computers on at about the same time, mine boots up, I do my stuff, I hand her my laptop and she does whatever web-based things she can do on my laptop, we make dinner, feed the baby and put him to sleep, maybe paint the living room, etc., then her laptop is maybe booted up, almost.
OK, I exaggerate but that’s what it feels like.
Anyway, JH has a new test that is slightly biased towards letting one of the two operating systems win the race to boot, and the results shocked me. Have a look.
Happy Birthday Genie Scott!!!
Today is Genie Scott’s birthday. Genie is loved by all in the community of biological scientists because of her central role, as director of the National Center for Science Education, in fighting the good fight against irrational efforts to teach creationism in our public schools and elsewhere. Genie is the author of several books, articles, and book chapters, including Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction and Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools.