Monthly Archives: October 2007

Chimps choose more rationally than humans

October 5, 2007 Science. Researchers have demonstrated chimpanzees are more nakedly self interested than humans. I’d say “chimps are more like the textbook selfish rational actors than human players.” UPI report says “Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary … Continue reading

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Copy Repositories with Rsync

In fedora-list, Ashley M Kirchner wrote Oct 6 2007 You can use rsync with any of the mirrors to keep a local copy. I have a shell script that I run every so often: ~:> cat rsync.sh echo “Getting Fedora … Continue reading

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Swap fixups, concerning Read-error on swap device

Mike Lord wrote 2007-08-29 > Read-error on swap-device (8:0:99814256) … Looks like a bad sector in the swap partition. You can probably repair it by using this sequence of commands: swapoff /dev/sdX /dev/sdX mkswap /dev/sdX swapon /dev/sdX If it recurs … Continue reading

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