Not Gone Yet

In an earlier post, I lamented the apparent extinction of the Baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin. Now, I hear from the World Wildlife Fund that a living Baiji has been captured on film. Maybe it's not too late.

Firewall Follies

Today, I finally got around to updating my copy of ZoneAlarm. The download, over a dialup connection, took about 50 minutes. I then installed the update.

It would not let me onto the 'Net. I rooted around, looking for tech support, which is available online. (No good.) Alternatively, tech support can be contacted via fax - if, of course, you have a fax machine, which I do not (nor do I desire one). There's no support phone line.

It took me about twenty minutes before I finally managed to find the setting that allowed me access to the 'Net. (Well, turning ZA off worked, but somehow that doesn't appeal to me.)

I logged on and began my usual trawling. Suddenly, ZA announced that there was a Very Important Update and I should Update My Copy Immediately. My copy which I had purchased and downloaded less than two hours earlier....

I am now downloading the update. Estimated time: about fifty minutes.

:snarl:

Ramble, Part 32: What Do You Expect?

In a previous post, I mentioned the origins of modern probability theory in the joint work of Pascal and Fermat on the "problem of the points". In the next generation or two, great strides were taken in the field, at the hands of (among others) the Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens and several members of the Bernoulli family. I'm not going to go into much detail on this, but there are a couple of points of interest that I'd like to discuss.

( Mathematical and Moral )

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