Just found this out when I tried to burn a CD using xcdroast under the 32.6.9 linux kernel: 2.6.8 requires you to run as root (as others have noted). I have been unable to create any cd at all since 2.6.7 (as root or otherwise) so there is also some other bug hidden in there […]
This afternoon, I recklessly did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my desktop system. Something I should have previously learned not to do, since it’s broken a few things on me before. This time, after rebooting, the X server wouldn’t load. This has happened before, somehow the binary Nvidia kernel module would get hosed and I’d simply
It’s not a good week for New York teams in playoffs. Despite tying for the worst road record this season, DC United went to the Meadowlands today and beat the rival Metrostars 2 goals to nothing. The return game is at RFK next Saturday, where United enjoy one of the best home records in MLS.
Apparently not so good to have the Supreme Court naked in your book if you want Walmart stores to sell it. USATODAY.com – Behind the robes, Stewart finds controversy The book also has cutouts of the justices’ robes and urges readers to “restore their dignity by matching each justice with his or her respective robe.”
On the Sports Economist:Is the Fox Soccer Channel in our future? seen on Soccer TV Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation has filed trademark applications 78444142 and 78485747 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register the names “FOX Soccer Channel” and “The Soccer Channel”. Multiple sources indicate that FOX is planning to convert
Posted on slashdot is a story about how Students Design A Satellite Via Internet, sharing a news server and having weekly chat sessions. Besides the inherent complexity of designing a working satellite, what stands out is the fact that they did it using relatively old Internet technologies. That just emphasizes for me the fact that
Dungeons and Dragons turned 30 this past Saturday, just 6 months older than me. What better way to celebrate than by watching the Dungeon Majesty teaser! first seen here: Boing Boing: Live-action women’s Dungeons and Dragons show
If you haven’t watched John Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire yet, you can watch it on ifilm. It’s being discussed in a lot of places including Slashdot, Lisa Rein’s Radar, and on Jason’s blog. BEGALA: And that CROSSFIRE reduces everything, as I said in the intro, to left, right, black, white. STEWART: Yes. BEGALA: Well, it’s
Not since the turn of the 20th century has the US plowed through Panama the way it did tonight. Needing a win to advance to the final regional round, the US team romped to a 6-0 win at RFK Stadium tonight. Wearing the captain’s armband, San Jose midfielder Landon Donovan scored the first two goals.
Nothing spectacularly insightful and I missed the first hour of the debate because we were watching the US-Panama World Cup Qualifier, but here are some observations: In his answer to the no child left behind question, Kerry spoke about Hispanics and the president seemed to refer to them as “children whose parents don’t speak English.”