Posts by Chas E. Erath

Any second now...

Folks at Penn State University have (seemingly) been on the verge of a huge, H2 break thru for 15+ years:

https://news.psu.edu/story/210444/2005/04/22/microbial-fuel-cell-high-yield-hydrogen-source-wastewater-cleaner

https://news.psu.edu/story/173806/2009/09/29/renewable-hydrogen-production-becomes-reality-winery

and many more:

https://www.google.com/search?q=penn+state+university+bacteria+to+produce+hydrogen

A lame excuse

"While it is unlikely that the French Republic would part with the painting..."

Buy France then. Duh?

Thank God!

At least I'll have an excuse now - despite having GPS.

(i.e. https://tinyurl.com/yco9zkyv )

Something has changed

Let me start by saying that I was born and raised in the US. Also let me say that I'm not opposed to gun control - I don't own a gun, and have never shot a gun (go figure, I'm almost 50). Also, I don't understand how over-the-top some people get about the idea of gun control (drinking the NRA cool-aid, so to speak...?)

At any rate - since colonial times, guns have always been accessible in the US. And so - the availablity of guns hasn't changed, and can't be the issue, therefore. The lethality of guns has changed - which is an important point - but still, school shootings are a somewhat modern thing.

So I have to ask, what's changed? I don't believe it's video games, or movies - I mean, we all played shoot-em-ups as kids - whether it was a video game, a movie, or just pretend (out in the back yard with our friends).

So something has changed. But I dont' know what it is...blah, blah, blah... (That is to say, I don't have an answer.)

slower than molasses

I've been using this Firefox browser since the early Netscape days - I can't argue that it's slower than dirt (despite the rewrite). However - I don't trust google, so Opera is my next choice. (IE is not a contender (as I've been using linux for a very long time)).

And so now - on slow machines, I lean toward Opera.

Make Mars Great Again?

Why not? So far he's been wildly successful at making America grate again...

(Sorry. That was too easy - it must've been done a thousand times already.)

Ixnay on systemd-nay

Xfce running on compiz is the bomb (I mean, c'mon - wobbly windows, and flame?! What more do you need?!). What blows though, is systemd. Damn that init to the deepest pits of hell. Gentoo (I think) is the only release (and a rolling release, too) that offers something non-systemd, which is grand.

Speaking of web browsers,

How about a shoutout for Lynx, which will also be turning 25 soon... (and still great for covert slacking!)

:wq

Same as it ever was?

Hasn't it always (i.e. for the last 20 or more years) been 'normal' to lease time on big iron(s)? I mean, Cray never offered it (I don't think), but still - why and/or how is this a new and/or different thing? (Besides the word 'cloud', I mean...)

Almost deja vu

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/14/_microsoft_gentoo/

I understand...

Cygwin - perhaps overkill, but what the heck, eh?

http://www.cygwin.com/

O irony, irony, wherefore art thou irony?

"At the end of the day it's about people and trust,"

(from the hyper-paranoid US intelligence community....?)

If Rush says it is so...

...then Rush is right. After all is said and done - Rush is right, Rush is right, Rush is right. Always, always, always, right, right, right. When others say he's lying - even if he is - he is right. Always right. That's all that counts - that he is right. See?

Cygwin is supported

Cygwin is in their appdb list, thank god. I mean, what good is MSWindows without cygwin?

Chas.

To go, please.

MS: "Welcome to McRedmond's - what can we get you?"

Mark: "Uh, how about an XP-deluxe?"

MS: "We're sorry, we no longer offer the XP-deluxe. You will have the McVista instead."

Mark: "Thank you, no. They make me vomit."

MS: "Too bad. You eat it!"

Mark: "Maybe I'll try one of those other places down the street."

MS: "Oh wait. I think I saw one more XP-deluxe back there somewhere. You wait there."