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09:17 - Labor Day, so I guess I'll work...
I mentioned in my journal last week that I'd be installing Xandros
on the new PC I'm building for our friends Paul Jones and Mary
Chervenak. As it turns out, I'll also be installing Xandros on the PC
my sister-in-law and her husband bought last fall.
That PC had Windows XP pre-installed. When I set it up for them, I
did my best to secure it against viruses/worms/Trojans and other
malware. I installed ZoneAlarm, the free Grisoft AVG antivirus
software, and SpyBot Search & Destroy. I explained to Frances and
Al how (and why) to keep the virus sigs and malware scanner updated,
and set things up to scan automatically.
Unfortunately, my best wasn't good enough. Frances reports the PC
has some problems that sound to me as though they're caused by some
sort of malware. That's not my fault, nor is it theirs. Keeping an
Internet-connected Windows PC free of malware is more than can
reasonably be expected of people who aren't PC specialists. Those who
simply use a PC as a tool to do their work are almost certain to fall
prey to one or another of the exploits that arrive in a continuing
flood.
I'd be willing to bet serious money that the average home Windows PC
has a dozen or more viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, and other malware
installed, all without the owners' knowledge, let alone approval. It's
not that the owners are stupid, or even ignorant. They know there's a
big problem; they simply don't know what to do about it. Nor should
they have to. The level of knowledge and effort required to keep an
Internet-connected Windows system uninfected is far higher than anyone
could reasonably expect from the scores of millions of people who have
a home PC.
Fortunately, I was thinking ahead when I set up Al and Frances's PC.
Instead of installing Microsoft Office, Outlook, IE, and so on, I
installed Mozilla as their browser and email client, and OpenOffice.org
as their office suite. Now, almost a year later, they're used to those
OSS alternatives instead of the Microsoft equivalents. That's going to
make it easy to migrate them to Xandros.
I'm not certain that Xandros supports all of their hardware, of
course, although I suspect it does. Just in case, though, I'm not going
to blow away their current Windows installation. Instead, I'll back up
all their data to CD, and then pull their current hard drive. I'll
install a new hard drive and install Xandros on that. An hour or two's
work will give them a robust, secure PC that runs the software they're
used to.And another Windows system will bite the dust.
Think about this: Installing Windows on the average person's home
computer is about as responsible as handing a monkey a loaded AK-74.
You're not doing your friend any favor, as he may find to his regret if
his identity is stolen, his bank account pillaged, or the authorities
discover his computer is being used as a zombie proxy for sending spam
or distributing child pornography. You're also not doing the rest of us
any favors. Those of us running Linux or Mac OS X aren't vulnerable to
Windows exploits, of course, but we suffer the ongoing barrage from the
tens of millions of infected Windows systems.
If you want to do your friend a real favor, install Xandros,
Linspire, Mepis, or one of the other "newbie" Linux distros that are
designed to be beginner-friendly. If gaming is important to him, set up
his system as dual-boot, but warn him that it's critical to unplug the
Ethernet cable from his system before he boots Windows. Impress upon
him that allowing his system to be connected to the Internet while
Windows is running is a disaster waiting to happen. Better yet, install
some Linux games for him. Linux games won't satisfy a rabid gamer who
lives and breathes Doom 3, but there are more than enough good Linux
games to satisfy most people.
Remember: Friends Don't Let Friends Run Windows.
10:35 -
Barbara knows I like large things. (I used to consider a 3-litre bottle
of Coke the single-serving size, literally. And let's not even talk
about my college days when a case of beer was the single-serving size,
and I once found myself eying a full keg...)
So, while she was at Wal*Mart, she found me a new insulated cup. Here it is, with a Volkswagen shown for scale.

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Tuesday, 7 September 2004
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08:11 -
I got some work done yesterday, but not as much as I wanted. My
deadline for the second chapter was a week ago tomorrow, and I'm
determined to have a finished chapter sent in by close of business
tomorrow. So I won't be spending much time here or on the messageboards
until I get that knocked out.
Then O'Reilly wants an article from me by next Monday. Busy, busy, busy.
Incredibly, the Royal Navy have decided to use Windows 2000 for the Combat Management System on their new Type 45 destroyers. Windows for Warships? Their engineers tell them they're nuts. I wrote about exactly this
more than four years ago. (Scroll down to the second entry.) What is
truly scary is that the Royal Navy is retrofitting Windows-based
software to their nuclear-armed subs.
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8:55 - Last night Barbara and I watched the Serena Williams vs. Jennifer
Capriati quarter-final match. Anyone who watched the match knows that
Serena Williams actually won it. No question about it. In the opening game of the
third set, Williams hit a return down the line. It was clearly in. The
lineswoman called it in. The replay showed it was not only in, but well
inside the line. The chair umpire, Mariana Alves of Portugal, should
never be permitted to officiate at another match. She announced the
score as advantage Capriati, when the actual score was advantage
Williams.
Williams was stunned, and approached the chair. The umpire didn't
announce an overrule, she simply awarded the point to Capriati.
Williams went on to win the next point, and therefore the game. In
meaningless points played after that game was over, Capriati eventually
won the game, according to the official score. All of us who watched
know that Serena really won that game.
From that point forward, I kept track of the actual game score, because
I wanted to know if and when she'd won the match. Incredibly, in the
final game, with the official score of 5-4 Capriati (actual score,
4-5), bad line calls gave Capriati not one, not two, but THREE points.
Two of Williams' shots were called out although they were clearly good. Replays subsequently
showed the shots to be good. Capriati also hit a second serve long for
a double fault, which again was clearly deep, and
confirmed by the replay.
In the larger scheme of things, a tennis match is meaningless.
Still, it seems to me it's also important to get the small things right.
I had a dream last night. Now, I know that humans and dinosaurs never
co-existed. When the first protohumans walked the earth, the last
dinosaur had been dead for more than 60 million years. Still.
My dream featured a huge, Allosaurus-looking thing. In case you're not up on Allosaurus, they were probably the most fearsome competitor predator that ever lived. (Many now think T. rex was a scavenger, incapable of chasing down prey, instead surviving on carrion.) Allosaurus was an eagle to T. rex's
vulture. Imagine something that outmasses a bull elephant, 40 feet from
snout to tip of tail and 10 feet tall at the hips, with short front
legs, three-fingered gripping talons, and a gigantic head with hinged
teeth with reverse serrations to ensure that prey once bitten had
nowhere to go but down Allosaurus's throat. A fearsome predator indeed.
I believe the only known Allosaurus species is A. fragilus (probably the least appropriate name ever given), but somehow I knew the one I saw in my dream was a different species, A. microsoftus. And this one was surrounded by a horde of protohumans. Somehow I knew they were H. linuxus. The mammals versus the saurian, and I knew which side I was cheering for.
The humans were throwing spears. At first, they didn't seem to have much effect on the giant lizard. But H. linuxus
were patient. They just kept throwing spears. Some bounced off the
tough hide of the saurian, but many of them stuck. The humans didn't
have it all their own way. With each careless lash of its tail, A. microsoftus
did immense damage, but the little human mammals didn't give up the
fight with the giant lizard. They just kept throwing spears, and the
saurian gradually weakened.
Eventually the saurian could fight no more, having been bled dry from
the cuts of a thousand spears. It teetered, but the humans had no pity
for it. They kept up the attack relentlessly until the saurian toppled.
It crashed to the ground with a mighty sound, and moved no more. The
beast was slain. The humans had won.
The moral I took away from that was that you should support OSS if you're human. Only dinosaurs favor Microsoft.
14:15 - Our power went down about 12:30 and just came back up. This is a day that I'm destined not to get anything done.
When the power failed, I had just finished installing Windows XP on a
test-bed system. The system came up normally, and I then installed XP
SP2. Geez. When the system rebooted, I had no mouse. At first, I
thought it was a problem with the USB Logitech cordless mouse, so I
pulled that one and installed a USB Microsoft optical mouse. After the
reboot, my mouse cursor remained in the center of the screen,
unresponsive. Crap.
So I shut down again and installed the USB->PS/2 adapter on the MS
optical mouse and tried again. This time it came up and the mouse
worked normally. So I shut down again, reconnected the mouse to the USB
port and restarted. No mouse. I don't know why, but on this system XP
SP2 simply won't recognize a USB mouse.
The next problem was the network drives. I wasn't surprised that XP
without a service pack didn't recognize the network adapter on the
Intel D875PBZ motherboard, but I did expect it to recognize the network
card after I installed SP2. No dice. So I went into my office,
downloaded all the latest drivers and BIOS update for the D875PBZ,
burned them to CD, and carried them back out to the den. I ran the
Intel INF install utility, which should have allowed Windows to
recognize the ICH-5R southbridge.
The system restarted normally, and I next attempted to install the
Intel network drivers for XP. No joy. The Setup program ran fine and
told me the drivers were installed, but when the process completed and
the system rebooted, Windows still did not recognize the network
adapter. Checking Device Manager showed me that it also didn't
recognize the USB hubs. Geez.
Windows XP hardware detection is sadly lacking compared to Linux. The
Intel D875PBZ isn't exactly an oddball motherboard, and it's been
around long enough that Windows XP with SP2 should certainly recognize
its components. But no. What Microsoft used to call the "out of box"
experience with XP truly sucks.
Oh, well, I'd better try to get some work done.
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08:32 - I will get the Wireless Networking chapter off to my editor today, no matter what.
The good news is that the insurance company is going to pay for the
existing shingles to be torn off and new shingles installed. The bad
news is that the sheathing needs to be replaced (or supplemented), and
the insurance won't pay for that. We had a roofer out to give us an
estimate yesterday. By all reports he's honest and competent. He tells
me he'll install half-inch plywood over what's already there. With the
hurricanes lately and much of US plywood production being sent to Iraq,
the cost of plywood has shot out of sight. The roofer says he estimates
he'll need 81 sheets, at $40/sheet installed.
I see that the ban on so-called assault "weapons" is to expire Monday,
which I think is a good thing. Imprecise terminology always offends me,
and the weapons that had been banned were in no way assault rifles, to
use the proper term.
The genesis of assault rifles was in Nazi Germany a year or two before
the end of the war. Until that time, there were two classes of
hand-carried primary personal weapons. Ordinary soldiers carried a
rifle, now called a main battle rifle, which fired the standard rifle
cartridge. Non-coms, some officers, tankers, and other special troops
carried submachine guns like the MP-38 and MP-40, which were compact,
selective-fire weapons that fired a pistol cartridge. The main battle
rifle was effective out to between 500 and 1,000 yards, but had a
relatively slow rate of fire. The submachine guns were effective only
out to 50 to 100 yards (although obviously their bullets could kill at
much longer ranges), but had a high rate of fire.
The waffenamt decided that most troops had no real need for the extreme
range of the standard rifle, with its accordingly slow rate of fire.
The high rate of fire of the submachine gun was desirable, but
something more than a pistol-class cartridge was needed. They came up
with a compromise that they called an StG for sturmgewehr. Literally
translated, that's "assault rifle". The StGs fired a 7.92mm bullet, the
same diameter as the bullet used by the standard Kar98k German service
rifle and their light and medium machine guns, but the StG cartridge
was much shorter than the standard cartridge, with accordingly lower
velocity and effective range. Like submachine guns, the StGs were
selective fire, which is to say that moving a level on the receiver
allowed the user to change between semi-automatic single shot mode and
fully automatic rock-and-roll mode.
The reason for the sturmgewehr name is interesting. By the time these
weapons were deployed, late in the war, German forces weren't making
many assaults. They were in defensive mode, but Hitler regarded defense
as another word for defeatism. The real intent of the waffenamt was to
produce an enhanced submachine gun that would greatly increase the
firepower of individual soldiers who were fighting to defend the
homeland. But if they named it using the traditional MP
(maschinenpistole or machine pistol) nomenclature, Hitler would have
forbidden its production. (Actually, the first models were named using
"MP"). So they renamed it "assault rifle", which had a nice offensive
ring to it.
Although the Nazis invented the concept of an assault rifle, it was the
Soviets who took the ball and ran with it. Particularly a guy named
Kalashnikov, who designed what was to become the AK-47. The AK-47
basically ripped off the StG44/45 design, but by that time the Nazis
were in no position to protest the intellectual property theft. Like
the StGs, the AK-47 used a shortened form of the standard rifle round,
in this case a 7.62 x 39mm version of the long Soviet 7.62mm rimmed
cartridge.
The two defining characteristics of an assault rifle are that it fires
a sub-rifle class round and that it is selective fire. So, if Wal*Mart
had been selling AK-47s or StG-44/45s, the government would be
justified in called them assault "weapons". But what they were selling
didn't come remotely close to meeting the definition. The semi-auto
Chinese AK-47 knockoffs were simply cheap, ugly semi-auto rifles that
were affordable. If there's one thing the government hates, it's
affordable weapons. Can't have the riff-raff armed, you know.
So, the expiration of the ban on these rifles is good news. Once again,
we'll be able to buy a useful defensive rifle and 1,000 rounds of
ammunition for something like $250 total. The government really hates
that.
11:23 - They say Dog Bites Man is real news. Here's something even more unusual: Dog Shoots Man in Self-Defense.
Apparently, this guy had seven unwanted puppies and decided to kill
them humanely by shooting them in the head with his .38 pistol. One of
the puppies was struggling and its paw pressed the trigger, causing the
pistol to shoot the man in the wrist.
What's outrageous, though, is that the man is being charged with
cruelty to animals. How so? He was killing them quickly and painlessly
by shooting them in the head. That's sad, certainly, but it's not cruel
by any sane definition. The animal control departments of nearly every
local US government kill millions of unwanted dogs every year, and few
of them do it as humanely as this guy was doing. Many use a gas
chamber, stuffing the chamber with a score or more victims and then
introducing lethal gas. The animals know what's happening, and fight
for their lives, clawing and biting the other animals in an attempt to
escape.
So, who is being cruel to animals? Not this guy.
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09:27 - Barbara and I got married 21 years ago today.
I was 30 years old, and Barbara was 28. We'd only met the preceding
February, and when we told our parents of our plans to marry I suspect
they all thought I was pregnant or something. We'd announced our
intentions not long after we started dating, and although no one ever
said anything I suspect both sets of parents thought things were moving
along too fast. They probably thought we'd be divorced in a year or
two. And here it is 21 years later. I can't imagine what the last 21
years would have been like without Barbara. I'm looking forward to the
next 21.
Barbara is very hard to buy gifts for. She doesn't wear jewelry or use
perfume, and when she really wants something she usually buys it for
herself. About the only things I can buy her are practical gifts that
she wouldn't buy herself. So, she's been having problems for the last
few months with the CD receiver in her car. I've been too busy to do
anything about it, and a replacement CD receiver isn't something that
Barbara would feel comfortable ordering for herself. I ordered her a
new CD receiver from Crutchfield, and this weekend I'll remove the dashboard in her truck and install it for her.
I was going to try to surprise her, but that didn't work out. The
problem is that Barbara is seldom far from her Trooper. She drives it
to work in the morning, comes home with it, goes to the gym in it, and
so on. Installing the CD receiver without Barbara knowing about it was
going to be a problem.
I'd enlisted the help of our friends Paul and Mary, thinking that
perhaps Mary could get Barbara separated from her truck long enough for
Paul and me to remove the dashboard and install the CD receiver. We
couldn't get it worked out, and our cunning plans took on increasing
desperation. At one point, Paul suggested I steal her truck while she
was at work. That was a non-starter, because she has a key-card that's
needed to get the truck in and out of the deck.
The other day, Paul suggested that I disable her truck Thursday night
so she'd have to drive my truck to work this morning. He suggested I
disconnect a wire from the distributor cap or something. That might
have worked with most women, but not with Barbara. She worked during
college at an auto parts distributor, and if her car hadn't started
she'd have popped the hood and noticed the loose wire immediately.
So I ended up just giving her the CD receiver last night, and telling
her the story of how we'd attempted to get it installed without her
knowing about it. Most people wouldn't consider a CD receiver a very
romantic anniversary gift, but it was the only thing I knew of that
Barbara really wanted and she seemed pleased with it. It was at least
better than some of the gifts I've given her, such as the torque wrench
and 12-point metric socket set. (I'm not making this up.)
11:38 - I need a new hobby. We'd planned an observing session for tonight. As of last night, the Clear Sky Clock
was predicting nearly perfect conditions. No clouds. High transparency.
The CSC is updated twice a day, usually around 0100 and 1300. When I
looked again this morning, the forecast had gone from nearly perfect to
terrible. I also checked the Weather Channel hour-by-hour, the Weather
Underground, and AccuWeather. All of them said we could expect clear
skies tonight. Hmmm.
So I called Paul Jones to see what he thought. As we were talking, he
checked the Weather Channel, Weather Underground, and so on. They'd
been updated since I checked, and they were all now forecasting clouds
as well. Crap. I need a new hobby.
I got to thinking. I have a couple TB of hard drive spinning here and
enough systems to put together a small supercomputer using a Linux
cluster. Perhaps I should assemble a virtual night sky using DSS and
other detailed mapping and image data. Instead of viewing the sky on a
standard display, I could build a pseudo-telescope that looked just
like a Dobsonian.
Rather than using mirrors for the optical path, my pseudo-telescope
would display output from the supercomputer, with images rendered in
real time as someone moved the scope. Once an object was in view, it
would drift, just as it does in a real Dobsonian as the earth rotates.
Small flat-panel displays would provide the images for the Telrad,
finder, and main "scope". The "scope" would use high-resolution
encoders like those used with digital setting circles to report back to
its controller exactly where it was pointed.
It could be made just as difficult to locate and log objects using the
virtual scope as it is with a real scope, the only difference being
that instead of showing up at a field in the middle of nowhere and
hoping for clear skies as we smacked mosquitos or shivered in the
freezing air, we could just meet at our house, pull down the dark
shades and turn off the lights.
Doing an actual planetarium display so that it would appear to the eye
that we were under starry skies would be impractical, but there's no
reason that we couldn't work using just the Telrad, finder, and scope
displays. For example, if I wanted to search for globs in Sgr, I could
simply use the main controls to tell the scope it was now pointed at,
say, the star Kaus Australis. From that point, I could star-hop to the
object I wanted to view, with the supercomputer rendering the images
visible in the Telrad, finder, and scope in real time, including drift
and field rotation. It'd be easy to emulate eyepieces as well. Instead
of buying $1,000 worth of 31mm Nagler and Paracorr, the system could
simply display the field of view that the eyepiece would provide.
There'd be a lot of advantages to a virtual scope, including that we
could "observe" any time we wanted and any object we wanted. If we
wanted to observe winter constellations at the peak of summer, we could
do it. If we wanted to observe southern constellations, including those
so far south that I'll never see them unless I take a trip to South
America, we could do that, too. The brightness of the display could be
set to simulate the view in any size scope. If we got tired of
observing with our 10" Dob, we could simulate the view through a 20",
40", or 100" scope.
It could even be a time machine. For example, when I was a teenager, I
could see bright colors in M42 (the Great Orion Nebula). Blues, greens,
and even a tinge of red, all in a 6" reflector. Nowadays, about the
most I can see is a greenish-gray tinge, and that in a 10" scope. I
could set the view to show me what I'd have seen when I was 15 years
old if I'd been using a 100" scope. And I'd be able to see star colors
again in all their glory. Nowadays, all but the brightest stars seem
white to me, but I remember as a teenager seeing the bright blues,
oranges, reds, and yellows clearly, even for relatively dim stars.
And no light pollution. In a simulator, the star fields would appear as
they do from a true dark-sky site, few of which still exist east of the
Mississippi River.
It wouldn't be real observing, of course, but it'd be the next-best thing. I'll have to think about this.

Here's something I don't understand.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Concord 5345z
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 17:52:24 -0500
From: Christensen, Chris
To: Robert Bruce Thompson
Robert: You might rethink your recommendation for this camera: (from their faq)
"2. Is the Concord 5345z compatible with Linux OS?
No, the Concord 5345z does not support the Linux operating system (OS).
Currently, there is no plan to develop a camera driver that is
compatible with the Linux OS."
Many cameras now simply appear as usb mass storage, this one doesn't: it requires a software driver to be installed in any computer that will access the camera. I can't use this camera at home (Linux only), and, it turns out, that I can't use it at work, because "administrator access" is necessary to "install a device". Since I bought the camera for an Australian vacation (and procrastinated like usual), I don't have enough time to return it for something more suitable. I guess I won't be e-mailing any photographs home from internet cafes. I'm going to try a usb flash card reader to see if that works to read the memory card I installed. It may very well not, if they've done something "funny" with the file system.
Other than that, I agree that the ease of use and performance are very good.
That's odd. I'm using my Xandros Linux box to transfer images off the
Concord 5345Z with no problems. It shows up as a USB drive when I plug
it in and turn it on.
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10:30 -
Three years after December 7th, the United States had already crushed
Imperial Japan, and was months away from nuking them. It's now three
years after September 11th, and so far nothing has been done to punish
Islam.
Mecca, Riyadh, and Teheran still stand, while our enemies laugh at us
and plan further attacks against us. Why do we allow this?
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10:50 - Barbara has joined the penguin ranks. Her main desktop system, adelie,
is now running Xandros 2.5 Business Edition. Yesterday I pulled her
hard drive and installed what I thought was an empty hard drive that
turned out to have Xandros 2.0 installed on it. I blew away that
Xandros installation and installed 2.5 on the freshly-formatted drive.
Barbara has been using Mozilla as her browser and mail client for quite
some time, so there's no change there. The major change for her will be
using Mozilla Composer rather than FrontPage to edit and publish her
journal page. I also installed several applications that aren't present
by default. I installed Evolution 1.4
as her calendar. I would have used Mozilla Calendar, but it doesn't
support PDA synching. I was planning to install the tools needed to
enable synching under Evolution, but just then Xandros Networks went
down, so that remains to be done. I installed Tux Racer and TuxCart
just to give her something to play with, and GnuCash for checkbook management.
There will also be minor glitches along the way, I'm sure. For example,
her sound isn't working with the default install, and I haven't messed
with it yet. I'm sure I'll be able to get it going with little
difficulty. Her system uses an Intel motherboard, which should be
pretty well supported.
With the exception of the DVR system, my notebook, and messier,
my former primary desktop, which is now a temporary server, we now have
only test-bed systems running Windows. Everything else is running
Xandros, Mandrake, or SuSE. I'll probably leave the notebook running
Windows, at least until the Linux version of Cartes du Ciel ships,
because we use that system primarily as an astronomical observing aid. Messier
won't be running Windows much longer unless I decide to convert it to a
test-bed. The DVR system may be the last hold-out. Right now, it's
running ATI's MMC software, which requires Windows. At some point, I
may well change it over to a Linux-based app like MythTV or Freevo, but
that's not a short-term priority.
In short, we are well on our way to being a Windows-free zone, at least in terms of production systems.
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