Florida helmet law debate again

From FloridaToday.com article, no attribution: <blockquote>The evidence is undeniable:</blockquote> Yes, undeniable. Auto drivers are becoming more and more irresponsible in their behavior. In general auto drivers have no concept of the danger that they are to each other, pedestrians, animals and motorcyclists. Instead of mandating a helmet law, a mandate for the education and training of auto drivers  would be the best thing the legislature could do. I’ve been riding for 30 years and have witnessed the crass disregard for life exhibited by many drivers. I also must submit the auto companies are at fault as well. They are wrapping the auto occupants in layers of protection and showing in commercials it’s ok not to pay attention to your driving; we’ll protect you from the results of your selfish disregard of anyone else but your self. No I don’t care for wearing a helmet, I do occasionally, it’s my choice. And I am on constant alert for jerks like you (know who  you are- not, you don’t have a clue).

WebKit

 I hope all the Safari users have found the WebKit build. It is the browser engine that is used by Safari. If not here’s my take on it. I have been using WebKit for a year and have had no problems with downloading and using the nightlies. It is very stable and a way for me to take advantage of the developers efforts well before Apple distributes updates to Safari. Check out the Open Source project at http://webkit.org/. You won’t be sorry you did. http://nightly.webkit.org/.

On a larger plane

Rest in peace

 From The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation 

http://www.clarkefoundation.org/acc/biography.php 

Chickered down with Yellow Jack!

Not really Just anticipating the March release. Can’t wait to give it a go. I’m thinking I want to plunk down a 100 bucks to get support since I had kernel panics with every BSD and GNU/Linux distro.

EDIT (3-10-08):
Guess I won’t be plunking a hunner down on YDL.[quote]

Apple Power Mac G5 1.8GHz G5, 2003-04 Notes:
The ATI Radeon X800 XT graphics card is non-functional.  

[end]

Inspect Element failure:

Rixstep Learning Curve 10.5.2 Hotspots.Safari up. Pick a website. Check preferences. Choose Inspect Element.

This Safari crash still occurs on PPC. Note that WebKit doesn’t crash with this procedure.

My new most favorite quote:

“…better is worse if it’s different.” 
From Linus Torvalds in OS News
http://osnews.com/story/19330/Linus_Torvalds_on_Why_Users_Arent_Flocking_to_Linux

Sure would be nice to Sleep

Apples sleep causes panic:

Happens every 3rd or so wake from sleep. I know a “Unix” machine is better off running continuously but this PwrMac spins the electric meter relentlessly. I’d really like to use the sleep mode reliably. Too much to ask? Don’t put it in the bag of tricks if it’s a crap implementation.

Tue Feb 5 19:13:19 2008panic(cpu 0 caller 0×00B8F6B4): “ATA Device recovery failed\n”@/SourceCache/IOATABlockStorage/IOATABlockStorage-200.1.8/IOATABlockStorageDriverV2.cpp:2325Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:Backtrace:0×0009AD18 0×0009B6BC 0×00029DC4 0×00B8F6B4 0×00B8F8D4 0×007AF0E8 0×007AF81C 0×007B2CF80×007B3A14 0×007B2AF0 0×007B2774 0×00BAED58 0×007B2704 0×003566C0 0×007B26AC 0×00BAEC980×007ADBAC 0×00B8F624 0×00B8F748 0×00B8F8D4 0×007AF0E8 0×007AF81C 0×007B2CF8 0×007B2F200×00BB1008 0×007B2E24 0×007BA0B0 0×0003F8D8 0×000AFE54Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):com.apple.iokit.IOATABlockStorage(2.0.0)@0xb8c000->0xb9efffdependency: com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily(1.7.3f1)@0×7ac000dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.2)@0×67c000com.apple.driver.AppleK2SATA(1.0.4f2)@0xbad000->0xbb1fffdependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0×6ae000dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily(1.7.3f1)@0×7ac000com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily(1.7.3f1)@0×7ac000->0×7bdfffProceeding back via exception chain:Exception state (sv=0×2a041780)PC=0×00000000; MSR=0×0000D030; DAR=0×00000000; DSISR=0×00000000; LR=0×00000000; R1=0×00000000; XCP=0×00000000 (Unknown)BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_taskMac OS version:9B18Kernel version:Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0: Wed Oct 31 17:48:21 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228.0.2~1/RELEASE_PPC 

MY BSD Journal

Bell Labs and Unix search

State of the art in G5 Power Mac Linux ware

IBM Library

I wonder if anyone sees the problem in this:

Starting Linux PPC64 #1 SMP Tue May 8 23:23:50 UTC 2007—————————————————–ppc64_pft_size = 0×0physicalMemorySize = 0×60000000ppc64_caches.dcache_linesize = 0×80ppc64_caches.icache_line_size = 0×80htab_address = 0xc00000005c000000htab_hash_mask = 0×3ffff—————————————————–Linux version 2.6.19-gentoo-r5-G5 (root@timberdoodle) (gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.4)) #1 SMP Tue May 8 23:23:50 UTC 2007CF000012Setup Arch[boot]0012 Setup ArchFound U3-AGP PCI host bridge. Firmware bus number: 240->255Can’t get bus-range for /ht@0,,f2000000, assume bus 0Found U3-HT PCI host bridge. Firmware bus number:0->239PCI Host 0, io start: 400000; io end: 3fffffvia-pmu: Server Mode is disabledPMU driver v2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0cnvram: Checking bank 0…nvram gen0=768, gen1=769nvram: Active bank is: 1nvram: OF partition at 0×410nvram: XP partition at 0×1020nvram: MR partition at 0×1120Zone PFM ranges:DMA 0 -> 393216Normal 393216 -> 393216early_node_map[1] active PFM ranges0: 0 -> 393216CF000025Setup Done[boot]10015 Setup DoneBuilt 1 zonelists. Total page: 387840Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram rw root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdrootmpic: Setting up MPIC ” MPIC 1 “version 1.2 at 80040000, max 4 CPUsmpic: ISU size: 120, shift:7, mask:7fmpic: Initializing for 120 sourcesmpic: Setting up MPIC ” MPIC “version 1.2 at f8040000, max 4 CPUsmpic: ISU size: 120, shift:7, mask: 7fmpic: Initializing for 120 sourcesPID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)smp_core99_probesmp_core99_kick_cpusmp_core99_kick_cpu donecore99_setup_cpu 0 done

bug report #323724

FreeBSD/PPC 6.0-RELEASE install.iso

Please note! Adventurous users only!

Supported h/w G5 - nope.

OpenBSD Unsupported Hardware

Power Macintosh G5 (October 2005, dual core (PowerMac 11,2)) is not supported yet.

SATA does not work on PowerMac G5 and Xserve G5 systems

The coming presidential election.

Three things are important issues to this presidential election.
1. Fiscal responsibility. Balance the budget. Yes it’s going to hurt. Yes it’s our fault. Lets start dealing with it now.
2.Legal and illegal immigration. Lower the numbers of allowed immigrants. Close the gaps allowing illegal immigration now. If an illegal immigrant is caught committing crime deport as usual. Don’t make it a crime to hire illegal immigrants. Let that be a growth path. We don’t need two more classes of criminals in this country. Issue them a SS Card and let them start making payments into the system. Don’t allow any welfare and no SS benefits until the normal amounts are paid into the system to allow payout. Community outreach programs are able to help people in the communities. Allow them to become normal citizens. Get them into schools. We will save money in the long run.
3. _
References:
GAO presentation
Borjas06Slides
Roy Beck Presentation

Sarah Connor Chronicles

I watched the pilot on my computer from iTunes. The episode was pleasantly interesting. I figured I’d watch the first episode airing on the tele but missed the Sunday show. So I caught the Monday night showing. There are a few weak points that need to be overlooked to maintain the believability. But it’s fiction so I’ll go along for the ride. Good depth in the actors. No overplaying and they aren’t boring. With a premise such as this you wouldn’t expect an extended run but it should provide a season of good entertainment. Very fine FX and Cine. Enjoy. Now where’s my oil can…