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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 8)
(The updated version of this series can be found here.) So we have the Chromium browser, but maybe you prefer the other major browser family, called Mozilla. We noted already that Debian doesn’t use the official labels for Firefox, but … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, compsec, debian, Firefox, linux, open source, Seamonkey, software, technology
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The Business of Prayer
Context is everything. A key element to all my religious babble on this blog is recognizing that you cannot blindly inject your own cultural prejudices into the process of reading the Bible. Scripture arises from a radically different mindset than … Continue reading
Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 7)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) The folks who make computer hardware aren’t always on good terms with the folks who develop Linux. You’ll hear both sides blame the other and it really doesn’t matter … Continue reading
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Tagged business, computers, debian, linux, nvidia, open source, politics, technology
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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 6)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) The Chromium extensions we installed do several things. Ghostery and Adblock work together to block the worst advertising. Ghostery may need some fine-tuning so you can use certain features … Continue reading
Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 5)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) First, a pop quiz. You will need a package called “gdebi”; based on the previous lesson, install it as you wish. It will bring with it a few other … Continue reading
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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 4)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) Debian won’t force you to use the commandline; it will entice you with the most opulent provision for those who dare to learn the magic of the Linux commandline. … Continue reading
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Tagged commandline interface, compsec, computers, debian, Flash Player, graphical user interface, linux, software, Synaptic, technology
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Job 18
We begin to understand Job’s visitors do not grasp what parables are, and do not comprehend symbolic language. God has always preferred parable as the means to communicate to mankind because it winnows out the spiritually dead. Only those with … Continue reading
Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 3)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) Linux is an implementation of the Unix computer technology; a type of Unix, if you will. In Unix Land, everything is a file. Every bit of hardware that the … Continue reading
Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 2)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) XFCE is a wonderful desktop environment, but it’s not the simplest to configure. There are several items we need to consider for desktop display. Extra wide displays are popular … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, debian, linux, Open Source software, panel configuration, technology
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The Mythology of Uniformity
As one reader noted, with full consciousness I subject the intellect to the Spirit. The mind was granted by God to serve the Spirit. Western Christianity typically presumes to intellectualize the Spirit, and that’s backwards, because it subjects the Spirit … Continue reading
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Tagged government, human reason, intellect, mysticism, oppression, peace, psychology, religion, spirituality, western christianity
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