I got a big new disc for my Linux box, and copied over my home files from the corrupt old disc, apparently without problems.

I also upgraded from Red Hat 7.1 to RH 9 – and adjusting is a bitch!

Argh. My Linux box’s HD has somehow gone too corrupt to boot (or reinstall). I guess I need to find data-recovery service.

Meanwhile I’m using my old Mac – too old for MacOS X, and therefore too old for Mozilla. I’m stuck with Netscape 4.5, which cannot digest Unqualified Offerings.

Later: I got a new disk, installed Linux on that, and copied my old stuff over; the rot apparently did not affect the content.

By now you’ve probably heard that Photoshop refuses to process images of US currency. I wonder whether we’ll see movies cheekily alluding to such censorship by masking out (perhaps with a glowing effect) any currency that appears in shot.

Today the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal set forth without comment the principles of “gun-toter” Jeffrey Jordan’s group Liberty Round Table. (Cited by Russell.)

Charlie Stross has some remarks on open-source hardware.

According to the BBC,

More than 50 other gun control bills have come before [Brazil’s] Congress over the years and failed to be passed.

In other words, they were defeated. You don’t suppose the Beeb has some ulterior motive in using the longer phrase?

Russell Whitaker (Survival Arts) reports:

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ pioneering flight. On the same day that a hobb[yi]st at Kill Devil Hills was trying unsuccessfully to replicate that flight, the real news of the day went mostly unnoticed:

Today, a significant milestone was achieved by Scaled Composites: The first manned supersonic flight by an aircraft developed by a small company’s private, non-government effort.