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That’s a cool presentation. It treats fusion as something almost commonplace, and as a source of inspiration for the next generation of experimenters. One of whom, one of these days, is going to crack the code...

In my biography of Philo Farnsworth, I quoted the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who said that "the truth goes thru three phases: first it is ridiculed, then it is opposed, then it is recognized as having been self-evident all along." I think the evolution of the fusor falls somewhere between step...

Rich Feldman, I received your contribution for the maintenance of the forums this morning. Thank you very much for that.

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If you happen to turn on a TeeVee today... hell, if you look at a video screen (actually, you're looking at a video screen NOW) ... tip a nod toward Philo T. Farnsworth, who delivered electronic video to the planet 90 years ago today... In 1977 (FORTY years ago!) I worked in concert with Farnsworth'...

Passwords. Right.

I will make it my mission to get on the horn with Media Temple today and get them to walk me through where those passwords are stashed, and then I'll share them with you.

A frequent offline back up.. yeah, good idea.

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So, yeah... As Frank explained above, Media Temple upgraded something on their servers. The upgrade included some factor that invalidated the passwords to access the database, and since those passwords were invalid, the database became inaccessible. Net effect, no fusor.net for almost 24 hours. When...

Re: the registration and login protocols for this new member: I exchanged several messages with Arvin (or was it Ari?) Singh over the past couple of days asking how his group could register for the forums. I told them it would be OK to do it this way – use this one name as a proxy for the entire gro...

where in Tennessee are you? I'm in Nashville (or nearly so).

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"...game, but baffled parents." I never had any issue of my own, so maybe I'm speaking out of turn here but... isn't that the experience of parents, generally, regarding their offspring?? In any event, I've got a post about the WaPo feature on the front page of the website, and I've run it up all th...

Here ya go:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sty ... usioneers/

Finally, something to put on the front of the website...

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