09.23.05
Posted in Religion/Philosophy, internet at 5:00 pm by site admin
Wow, a new study that saysPollution is bad and can cause a premature death. The asthma and childhood sickness are old news. Also another article that groups languages by structure. Its kinda interesting. Usually people go by the vocabularies of the languages. This article reminds me of my Sanskrit professor Douglas Mitchell at Rice. He is a heafty lingustic guru. He knows 32 languages (if i remember correctly). All indo-european. It is a commendable achievement. The scary part is that he said he taught himself. He says when he learns a language, he focus on the grammer and the phonetics. I reflect on his advice now and again, and I find it to be the Way.
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09.12.05
Posted in linux at 8:29 pm by James
I run debian unstable on my servers. I was trying to upgrade some of the packages, when I encountered the following message:
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs
Following the solution from Nick’s Personal Blog the following worked w/o any accidental snags.
apt-get - o APT::Force-LoopBreak=yes install e2fsprogs
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09.08.05
Posted in Religion/Philosophy at 10:44 am by James
I found this crazy article titled Supernova 1987A Decoded. It states that the current view that super novas occur when a star collapses is wrong. They state that evidence from Supernova 1987A provides evidence that supernovas may actually be massive electrical discharges.
Now the crazy part of the article is where it talks about 56- and 28-fold symmetry of high energy plasma discharges. They show the supernova exhibited the same pattern. They go own to say that many structures from antiquity (concentric petroglyphs, geoglyphs, megaliths, etc) exhibit a similiar 56- or 28- fold symmetry. The most renowned of course is the megalith Stonehinge with its 56-fold symmetry.
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