The daily upgrade broke booting on the new kernel; it forced booting with the next older kernel and required a "yum reinstall kernel" command for the latest kernel, 3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64, to boot on my hardware - an AMD, Radeon, and Realtek equipped Toshiba T115D. Grubby reported a fatal error, no valid template found.
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Michael J. Burns
The firing of a cannon is not accidental. An engineer would be liable, I think off hand, if she had been asked to evaluate the failure modes and had not spotted this eventuality. Causality rules in this domain of physics. And a cannon ball in flight carries an indivisible and large amount of kinetic energy, the producers should have rated the precautions in proportion.
I understand now how Friedmann coordinates obscure thinking on cosmology. So an addition to my old meditation on superluminal philosophers is needed. Even though they are contemporary to us by definition, they actually are on the far side of the big bang. Before we imagine them at a suitable distance, we must think of evidence of the big bang being mathematically deducible at a closer distance. Reasoning that excludes communication with such philosophers is complemented by the argument that t
An upgrade to Fedora 16 on this machine was a bit of a bother. After the preupgrade command and a reboot followed by a "yum upgrade" command, both at a console, an additional wait was needed for the graphical login to work. Then a "yum distro-sync" command fixed firefox.
With today's update of Fedora 15, I no longer need to suspend my Toshiba 115D to enable the external sound output.
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Michael J. Burns
I am indebted to Professor Furton of GVSU for presenting the Carl Sagan Day Lecture in Grand Rapids. It was presented in a gentle and friendly spirit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/science/08fukuyama.html?pagewanted=all
“The Origin of Political Order”, by Professor Francis Fukuyama, seems (to me) to make fundamental points. It is an ongoing struggle to suppress older methods of government: personal vengeance, nepotism, gangs, tribal war gods, graft, bribery and patronage.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/a-history-of-americas-eleven-nations-20111006
It was necessary to delete the file in ~/.local/share/icc/ . AVC was not allowing read access to it for dbus. Now I can login. At the moment the Perl environment is not updating correctly.
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Michael J. Burns
My Fedora 16 upgrade only allows my Gnome 3 login twice in an hour of trying. It is a legacy home directory originally from Fedora 14 and earlier, then switched to a uid and gid of 1000 from 500 before the upgrade. My XFCE login reports a dbus error. A new test account is allowed.
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Michael J. Burns
This is not correct. In order to distribute software which once possessed a GPL license, distributors must continue to provide source code for the modified product. The GPL license is not the Berkeley license.
The new tight bunching of neutrinos, at 500 nanoseconds of separation, are a bit too close to be distinguished by uncalibrated Ethernet timers. The specification, as pointed out by AZSquib, is only plus or minus fifty parts per million. Before being reset by the master clock every six tenths of a second, these 100MHz timers could be off by 3000 ticks, or 30000 nanoseconds. Suppose that these timers are fifty times more accurate than the specification, then the maximum error could be 600 nanos
AZSquib found the problem - uncalibrated 100MHz timers. The master clock only served to obscure the drift of these ordinary Ethernet timers.
AZSquib discovered in the paper that the cesium standard was not actually used for timing, but only to periodically reset the 100 MHz Ethernet timers to cover the drift of those crystals. http://blog.vixra.org/2011/09/19/can-neutrinos-be-superluminal/#comment-11088
I studied the published graphs of supernovae Ia brightness versus redshift. So I came to accept that the comparison curve on what is expected in an empty universe is correct. This certainly makes interpretation on the deviations easier. (In Wikipedia the dimming due to redshift is stated incorrectly, so my doubts were not unfounded.) See http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~bfalck/SeminarPres.html#adeptsim
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
