more server migration argh!

So I told the Computing Center about the various problems mentioned here, and they started fixing things. In fact, several of the problems have been fixed, but one -- the disk quota issue -- has gotten worse: I now have a disk quota of 4 blocks on the new Web server. I'm not sure what a disk block is on this system, but I think it's either 512 bytes or 1 KB. In other words, I have approximately enough disk quota to store this LJ post, as long as there are no graphics. Since I'd already transferred 52000 blocks' worth of data to the new Web server before the quota dropped to 4, I'm over my limit by a factor of 13000. Creating new files, and even editing existing ones, are Right Out. Setting up class Web sites for the classes I'm teaching less than 48 hours from now is likewise Right Out.

I guess I can write syllabi; that doesn't require a Web server, unless I want to post the syllabi where the students can see them....

politics and economics

Just a few interesting articles I've read recently on the economic impact of the GWB administration. Gakked from... I don't remember where, various places.

an article by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz listing the missed economic opportunities of the past twelve or so years.

an Alternet article about Bushenomics which argues that the entire growth in the US economy under GWB is in "money supply", not actual jobs or productivity, and that this enormous deficit-driven money supply led directly and predictably to the sub-prime mortgage mess. So what are we doing today? Cutting interest rates and writing checks to every US citizen, both to increase the money supply.

Jim Holt's piece "It's the Oil, Stupid", which argues that the Iraq war has been not a failure at all, but an almost total success -- at ensuring US control of Iraq's oil for the next thirty years, regardless of who is in the White House or Congress.

And, of course, my own history of Federal budget deficits.