Charles Darwin day

Darwin day. I had not heard that there was a celebration of his birthday. Now there is a Darwinday.org, and a crdarwin on Twitter. The Darwin awards have been a long standing cute joke, but a celebration of science and reason on Darwins birthday is a serious thing. Nice.

Republican Secretary of Commerce

So this bi-partisan administration is not getting off to a good start. Republicans from Maine to Philadelphia have rallied to rescue the economy, but Obama's choice for Secretary of Commerce, Senator Gregg of New Hampshire, did not vote for the program to rescue commerce. Wha?? Why is he taking the job? Why is he being appointed?

Apparently 36 of the Republicans voted on an amendment to change the entire stimulus package into tax cuts. McCain, who twice voted against the Bush tax cuts which doubled the national debt wants to cut a half billion a year in taxes. Oh, eliminate capital gains taxes, make the upper income Bush cuts permanent, etc.

I heard on a Salon economy story "bi-partisanship doesn't work when one side is insane".

off the topic, I got a gmail account last week to try it out. Now Blogger recognizes me every time. While using my netscape.net address it demanded that I log in every time. I think that Google is becoming evil.

Win 7 on Virtual Box on a mac

I just found the Apple Insider story linked above. I did this very installation last week; Win7 beta installed in Virtual Box. Virtual Box is from Sun, a virtual machine to run (whatever) intel operating systems on a Mac. I own Parallels, the first Mac virtual machine for running windoze on yr Mac. I bought Parallels 2, then upgraded to 3. They are trying to sell me the upgrade to 4 for another $50 but I think I'll pass.

VM Ware has a competing product, Fusion, which gets better reviews than Parallels, altho Parallels supposedly will run from a Boot Camp installation. I cannot get Boot Camp to finish an install.

Virtual Box is free and runs quite well, but does not support my ProBook graphics nearly as well as Parallels. VirtualBox cannot detect the native resolution on this GeForce 8600m.

So, Win 7 is actually pretty nice. I like it. Much cleaner and faster than XP.

futre nine

I canceled my land line and got a voip thingie from Future Nine. After buying the box for $45 the service is virtually free. I got a local number from them today, 504.799.0801. They didn't charge me for the number! Must be something wrong there.

I am trying to figure out configuring the SPA2002 box. Caller ID information is going out, I called my cell phone to check. They must do that at sip.future-nine.com. There is a web interface to the SPA2002 but no way that I can discover to edit the sip.conf file. Is there one in there? Dunno.