COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR
Jerry Pournelle
Tuesday, November 06, 2001
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Saving the space program: things change slowly. The relevant papers are still relevant. Start with Getting To Space. You might also look at The Megamissions Paper about military policy.
Much of what we do here ends up in special reports. There are a lot of these. Each reports folder has a summary page. Contents vary between the Yorktown Incident through Christening of a godchild to the opening of a corpse plant to picture reports of rolling my Bronco in Death Valley to a stroll along a canal in Japan. How a report ends up in one folder rather than another seems largely to be whim, but they all have quite a bit of good stuff accumulated over the years.
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If you got here looking for the MegaMissions paper, click here. I find that my space papers are not well organized or indexed and are very hard to find. I'll try to do something about that. The other paper referenced in my recent talk is Getting to Space.
Some not very Current Topics which continue to generate interest:
How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.
SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX
Special Reports on many subjects:
Installing Linux For A Family Network
The Burning City by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is out in paperback and should be in bookstores everywhere as well as shipping from Amazon. This is our big heroic fantasy (well the characters think they are in a heroic fantasy) about a time 14,000 years ago just after Atlantis sank and the magic is going away. If you don't have a copy, buy one! We are working on the sequel. There will be three books in the Golden Road series, but each is stand alone; the connection is in continuing characters, not a continued story line.
This is a content oriented site. You are not likely to find pretty new graphics here. This is not a course on web design. I do try to make things readable, and keep the download times small. Topics include: New machines, chip reports, book and game reviews, musings on many matters. The View From Chaos Manor is updated almost every day. There is a great deal of mail, on many topics. If you don't know why you're here, try VIEW, then "What Is This Place?" There is a comprehensive INDEX at New Order (as in Order Out Of Chaos). It can be confusing here, but many like it that way. Reminds them of The Adventure Game.
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