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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Don’t Trust Them
As many people do, I read news on the Web. I don’t have time to read everything offered by most of the news agencies. Nor would I trust their instincts about what is news and what is just a story. … Continue reading
We Got Troubles
Locally here, we’ve been promised to get a piece of the same snow storm about to hit a big chunk of the US. Oklahoma seldom gets that kind of stuff, and we don’t invest that much in the requisite equipment, … Continue reading
Posted in globalism
Tagged economics, government, oppression, resistance, survival
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RHEL 6 for the Clueless: LibreOffice as Update
Today Red Hat issued a security update for Open Office on all three versions which had it (4, 5, & 6). If you don’t have access to RHN, you would be crazy to try building it from the SRPM. Frankly, … Continue reading
Poor Man’s Windows Server: zPanel and WAMP
Update: The ZPanel site has moved to here to take advantage of Sourceforge hosting. See the comment below. (Original post begins below.) So you have this Windows machine, and you really have to have a server. It’s not necessary to … Continue reading
Discontinuity Failures
I don’t fit. Every time I try to get involved in some organized effort to fix something, I am confronted with a demand I compromise on something else. If I try to work with any part of the moral peace … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged culture, government, oppression, peace, resistance
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Not Migrating: Windows Security Considerations
Just because I’m convinced Linux has a better security posture than Windows does not mean Windows is useless. And sometimes you just don’t need that much control to get things done. Frankly, a badly configured Linux box is as easily … Continue reading
Sanity and Self-Sufficiency
In a previous post, I noted my interest in Linux and Open Source was primarily a matter of self-sufficiency, though I phrased it as a matter of having control over my computer. People want such control when they are ready … Continue reading
Posted in computers, globalism
Tagged compsec, government, internet, linux, redhat, resistance
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She Doesn’t Want Me
“Chuck, tell me that wasn’t you I saw at the Boarhead last night! And with the hottest middle-aged babe in three counties.” “Well, I was there, Merle, and the lady did seem to create a sensation with the males in … Continue reading
Posted in fiction
Tagged culture, marriage, mysticism, psychology
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I Trust Ben
Search engines have opened up the world to ordinary Net surfers. I can recall using Alta Vista, then liking Go better, then Yahoo, then Google. These days, Google is simply not the best. Oddly, Bing actually gives far better results … Continue reading
World Gone Mad
They are crazy. Even here in my own state, good old fly-over country. We are not overrun with Muslim terrorists. The only terrorists we have to worry about receive government paychecks. Granted, there are a few sensible cops out there, … Continue reading