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Monthly Archives: July 2014
CentOS 7 and 64-bit Mozilla Stuff
CentOS 7 comes with the ERS (Extended Release Support) version of Mozilla software. This is typical of the basic concept behind RHEL/CentOS and other clones, that you probably only have to install the OS once in the lifetime of the … Continue reading
CentOS 7 Desktop: Unneeded Services
If you run Windows, you can find some really great advice from Black Viper about which services you need or don’t need and under what circumstances. Scroll down and check the page links he has. For quite some years his … Continue reading
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Tagged centos, compsec, computers, linux, redhat, RHEL, technology
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Moments of Moral Clarity
Sometimes those moments when the moral obligations are most obvious is when it hurts the most. In my world there is a particular person who is rather close, to the point of under my feet, as it were. This person … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical morality, culture, moral obligations, mortality, scripture, social conditioning, society, spirituality
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The Newest Online Privacy Threat: Canvas
As a part of the various options webmasters have for displaying content in your browser, something called “canvas” can also be used for tracking. In essence, the webpage can instruct your browser to draw a picture that is not displayed. … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, canvas, compsec, computers, JScript, privacy, technology
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CentOS 7: Home Networking
CentOS is a lot smarter than you might expect. It knows when it is connected to a home router. The new firewall quickly adjusts and generally does the right thing. However, it won’t automatically allow you to link to the … Continue reading
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Tagged centos, computers, firewall, linux, networking technology, technology, windows
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CompSec: The Other CIA
Computers are essentially the means to data storage and processing. In that sense, data has value. Never mind theories about money and store of value; data is its own kind of thing. The whole business of computers and networking is … Continue reading
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Tagged compsec, computer ministry, computer security, computers, Cybersecurity, data storage, technology
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I Was Just Trying to Help
Let’s explore some of the implications of the Doctrine of Leverage and all my blather about Christlike charity and moral sacrifice. We understand the necessity of standing back and suffering the empathy of those who hurt without taking action because … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-Saxon, arrogance, charity, civilization, culture, moral perception, psychology, resistance, society, western civilization
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Desktop CentOS 7: Added Repos
This is simply my own recommendation. In order to run CentOS 7 on the desktop, most folks want stuff you can’t get from CentOS directly. For example, most of us still use websites that require Flashplayer. Adobe has set up … Continue reading
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Tagged centos, computers, EPEL, linux, redhat, technology
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Psalm 7
People who don’t understand the Hebrew style of logic regard this psalm as wandering from one idea to another. They even imagine it might be several short bits thrown together, as if Hebrew scholars were no wiser than half-grown children. … Continue reading
Information Activist 2
If “activist” means striving to force a change in government policy, then I am not one of them. It seems I often have to explain why we are not supposed to participate in democratic government: It’s fundamentally immoral. Democracy is … Continue reading
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Tagged christian activism, computers, culture, democratic government, government, internet, moral character, Noah's Covenant, Open Source software, resistance, tribal government
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