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Yes! Means “NO” Part 2

Refer to the previous post on this subject here. So it hasn’t gotten any better. The upper management must have been closely watching. Every time we had a park manager who tried to be close to us residents, they were … Continue reading

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The Standard of Communion

It’s a very, very sad reflex that asserts itself every where I look. Reading between the lines of the Law Covenants, we learn that God places a heavy emphasis on social stability. It seems the summum bonum of Jesus’ second … Continue reading

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Kubuntu Guide 06

06 — Installation Back up all your important files to an external device of some sort. That would be whatever you keep in your Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos and perhaps Download folders. If you know how, you can find your … Continue reading

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Psalm 19

Modern Western man surely sees the beauty in nature and could perhaps reason from it to a glimpse of some divine hand in the vista. Ancient Hebrew man, along with men of every nation within a years’ travel, would have … Continue reading

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Song of Solomon 8

In Hebrew culture, public displays of affection were permitted only between children. In the typical tribal social structure, children at play were presumed some relation to each other, whereas adults engaging in such behavior would be scandalous. It was too … Continue reading

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Kubuntu Guide 05

05 — Installation Considerations It’s possible Kubuntu won’t run well on your hardware Then again, some computers don’t seem to run much of anything very well. If you’ve ever read or experienced a struggle to get Windows drivers for some … Continue reading

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Kubuntu Guide 04

04 — Peculiarities of Linux In general, the Linux/Unix experience holds sufficient differences from Windows that you might benefit from some explanation. The DIY Linux/Unix culture assumes a much tighter interaction between the user and the machine. With most of … Continue reading

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Death and Hell Stalking Us

Maybe it’s not so different in substance; maybe this is just the veneer peeling away. Western Civilization is especially bad about forgetting the past in the sense that we have no ability to transmit from generation to generation what it … Continue reading

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Kubuntu Guide 03

03 — Why Kubuntu? The name Linux isn’t actually a thing, but a kind of thing. The underlying code base is there for anyone to build as they like. What you can build with it can be tweaked for specialized … Continue reading

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Kubuntu Guide 02

This is the second chapter in the book, and it’s pretty much a rehash of a previous post, so regular readers may want to skip this. ************ 02 — The Perils of Software Development If you have to watch out … Continue reading

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