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Easter Sunday
Congratulations to Daynoter Dan
Seto, who reports that he was admitted to graduate school, at the
University of Hawai'i at Manoa. I'm sure he'll be a motivated student.
We will forgive him for taking a Masters in Public Administration
program <g>... a B3 course (Be a Better
Bureaucrat) <gg>.
Sad, the extent to which this US-Cuba issue went totally out of control...
Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez was reunited with his father on Saturday
after automatic weapons-toting U.S. agents snatched the 6-year-old in a predawn
raid on the home of his Miami relatives.
I tend to agree with Jerry Pournelle's comments about the whole affair, that
it's been politicized and mishandled out of all proportion by officials and
public figures (on both sides) who have neither the legal nor moral basis
to intervene. Did that or the public outrage stop them? Nope.
The Waco debate also continues -- remember Waco? Branch Davidian? The tragic
fire in 1993 that ended the prolonged siege. Weighing in on the side that
FBI agents were not firing into the compound, the British firm Vector
Data Systems had conducted simulations using the same kind of IR camera to
demonstrate that the purported "gunfire flashes" seen on the April 19, 1993
FBI flyover video were in fact sunlight reflections off metal and broken
glass. The simulations were made in response to a wrongful death lawsuit
filed by Davidians against the FBI.
Science news during the week: The first data and science images
from the EOS "flagship" satellite Terra's five instruments were released
April 19, 2000. Some very impressive imaging of Earth there. See the
Terra home
site .
The satellite is in a polar orbit adjusted to allow images of all parts of
the Earth to be taken in consistent late morning sunlight. The idea is to
provide continuous monitoring of e.g. environment and climate factors.
Microsoft was press-releasing as usual, and...
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announced revenue of $5.66 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2000,
a 23% increase over the same quarter last year. Net income was also reported
as up 23%.
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reported more than 1.5 million Windows 2000 shipments since the launch. Also
quoted: "... feedback from customers has been incredible ..."
In what way, I wonder...
I think the biggest personal objection I have against W2k to date is the
still inadequate driver support, plus the fact that the "normal" install
takes up well over 600 Mb diskspace. Disk space is cheap, yes, but the factor
2000 increase in space and resource requirements over say DRI GEM does
not correspond to a factor 2000 increase in functionality.
There is a White Paper on tuning W2k performance. You can get it from the
MS site as an
EXE-zip of a
Word doc. Maybe Dave
Farquhar will give us Optimizing W2k for Fun and Profit in due
time -- I sure hope so.
Bob Thompson posted
a link to the Modegreen
site
(misheard lyrics). Go there and pick up some good ditties to sing over Easter!
As he notes, it's interesting the things you can run across while looking
for something completely different.
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