Webs’ Random Ideas

… File permission issues with a file copied from Windows but edited through *.nix. I copied a file with root permissions to a folder only my user account can access. For some reason local root cannot access that folder, I think because it is an NFS share. Normally not a big deal, just play around with placement of file. But the file is 3.4gigs. Ugh!

The short way of stating this is file permission hell…

Now I am 450% complete in my file download…

It doesn’t know how to render my website correctly. I’ll try to look into when I get time.

Oddly enough this happened when I was downloading Linux…

I’m a little late on this one, but I thought it would be interesting to post. Especially since I am in a group of 10% of those who took the quiz that got all 12 questions correct. But here’s the thing, I don’t consider myself to be all that knowledgeable on science and I haven’t done a good job of keeping up with science news. I really wouldn’t consider these questions to be too terribly difficult. Just watching any news channel or listening to the occasional NPR broadcast should get you the answers to most of these questions.

So why am I in a group with only 10%? Have we fallen that far behind in science? I knew we had to some extent, but I must say I am little surprised by these numbers. I guess the good news is 44% of those that took the quiz got 75% of the questions or more correct. That’s not too bad…

Anyway, take a stab at it and see how you do. If you fall behind a little and miss a few questions, maybe you can use this quiz as an excuse to read and listen to more science related material.

Click on pic for link to quiz…

This is just special. But also there is a great point made… the ones pissed off are the ones without issues.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht_W5_Ogh0U[/youtube]

Not bad if you want to tour the US or if you are a business person that flies a lot.

For those of us living in the US that is… But don’t forget to check it out if you can stay up for it.

A famous person who’s death I care about. She is the founder of the Special Olympics.

Most of us don’t understand that we’re already paying for people who don’t have health care — which makes us too busy to care, in denial or merely rich.

Some of us — a lot of us — already receive health care under some form of government plan, but don’t believe in health care under some form of government plan. That makes us hypocritical or selfish. In some camps, I hear that makes us patriotic.

I recommend clicking on the following link, it’s a good read or listen. Brian Unger on NPR: The Health Care Debate Is Making Me Sick.