| Wednesday, November
1, 2000
Wednesday Morning (0400):
I made my big speech to the Directed Energy Professional Society. Going
to Kirtland AFB to look at some Directed Energy weapons. I'll be home
tonight. If the Wyndham Hotel in Albuquerque tells you all the telephone
circuits are busy and there is nothing wrong with your phone, they are
merely lazy liars who didn't bother to check. I was told that from 6PM
until Midnight. At 0400 I woke up, tried again, got a busy signal, called
the desk, and this time they couldn't give me the excuse that the phones
were all busy.
I do not recommend the Wyndham Hotel in Albuquerque.
When a politician campaigns in the last week in places he supposedly
has sewed up, he is in trouble. Bush shouldn't have to campaign in
Florida, but on the other hand, he is confident enough to go to California,
Seattle, and Minnesota in a critical time. Gore is campaigning in
territory that should have been locked up, reminding me of Reagan's
cleanup tour towards the end of the Carter race as Carter tried to get
some of his base back..
The pollsters are calling this "too close to call" but the
Democratic strategists are clearly running scared. Bush looks confident.
We shall see. I do remind you that the media were telling us that the
Reagan/Carter election was "too close to call" when everyone in
the nation including Carter knew better.
Roland reports that we should be afraid.
http://devrandom.net/~dilinger/
Be very afraid. (Also reported by Sean Long and Joe Zeff, and others.
Thanks!)
Apparently I have offended the Linux people again and they are now
saying I take bribes. I don't. Their statement is libel on its face. It's
also pretty obvious libel. And not particularly clever. Whatever else I
do, I don't take bribes. But one does not expect adult conversation from
children.
Something you might like to read:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-30-014-21-NW-CY-DT&;tbovrmode=1#talkback_area
It is childishness like this that harms Linux among serious computer
users. No sane person wants to be dependent on a community in which these
people are the best and the brightest. Of course they are not. There are
sane Linux people. But can you imagine your business dependent on people
who think and talk like this?
I have two Linux boxes here. One, the Netwinder, I have recommended for
a year or more. The other with the Citrix software is capable of nearly
anything the other workstations are; of course it connects to a Terminal
Server so that it can run Office. It can also grep and do the other stuff
that *nix boxes do. Interestingly, it is a fairly elderly system running
about as well as some of the more advanced workstations using Windows. I
am in the middle of looking into the potential of systems like this.
Not that I expect children to notice, or pay attention. I am probably
more acerbic than I should be. It's 5 AM here, and I need to get back to
bed.
8:30 PM
I'm home. Tons of mail to work on.
I have a couple of sane letters suggesting that the latest versions of
Star Office are considerably better than the ones I tried a few months
ago. That may well be the case, and I will when I can look at the latest
version.
But despite the ire of the bleating children, I continue to say that
Office 2000 with Front Page. Word, Excel, PhotoDraw, and Outlook work
pretty well together: good enough to get the work done that I do. I see no
reason to change that statement.
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