Archive for March, 2007
March 28, 2007
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March 26, 2007
Watch This American Life Online
Watch the first TV episode of This American Life online, This American Life On Showtime.
March 22, 2007
Guess what, Gore’s “science” on global warming isn’t exactly scientific
In Gore on Climate Change: Scientists Respond, NPR did a great piece on how scientists are responding to the lack of science is Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth.” From the piece,
Can you give us some examples of some of the concerns that scientists have?
I saw Al Gore give a talk at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco last December. He was cheered by this enormous audience of scientists, who were really excited to hear his message that it’s time to take global warming seriously.
But after the talk, a couple of [the scientists] came up to me and said, you know, “He didn’t exactly get the science right.”
Gore said that Arctic ice could be gone entirely in 34 years, and he made it seem like a really precise prediction. There are certainly scary predictions about what’s going to happen to Arctic sea ice in the summertime, but no one can say “34 years.” That just implies a degree of certainty that’s not there. And that made a few scientists a bit uncomfortable to hear him making it sound so precise.
This is the same guy that invented the Internet.
March 20, 2007
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March 19, 2007
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March 17, 2007
Cisco VPN on Ubuntu 6.06 (Edgy Eft)
I had an extreme amount of difficulty getting the Cisco VPN client working on Ubuntu 6.06. I tried both versions 4.6 and 4.8 without success using the .pcf file provided by my company and a couple of other .pcf files that I use. I continued to get this error:
Initializing the VPN connection.
Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client
Reason: The Connection Manager was unable to read the connection entry, or the connection entry has missing or incorrect information.
I finally ran across a suggestion to copy the sample.pcf file and replace the values in the file with the values specific to my company. There were a number of entries in the company provided pcf file that weren’t in the sample.pcf. I copied the sample.pcf file and changed the necessary settings. That did it.
While it didn’t fix my problem, I did find this tutorial very helpful.
March 16, 2007
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March 15, 2007
Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing
from Slashdot,
“Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture, Hawking said yesterday that he now believes the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing. He said more work is needed to prove this but we have time because ‘Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.’ There is also a Webcast available (Realplayer or Real Alternative required).”
What and no reference to Genesis 1? 
Thankfully, this seems to be a growing trend in science. If you have a chance, check out God’s Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe.
