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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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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 →

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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 →

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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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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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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 1)

(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) Lots of folks offer various kinds of guides to installing Debian. This is just one more. Why Debian? It’s easily the single best escape from MS Windows for most … Continue reading →

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Internet Unrealities

Perhaps you’ve met one like him. He asked me to come over to his apartment and look at his computer, saying only that it had a problem. Some charitable agency had given him a decent system with Ubuntu installed. He … Continue reading →

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The Core of Human Existence

No grand theory here; I’m struggling to echo the Bible in modern Western terms. Let’s pretend, maybe something along the lines of the Fallout series of video games. Trailers and bits of game play can be found in good quantity … Continue reading →

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Three Debian Install Issues

This applies to Ubuntu Precise and Debian Wheezy for sure, and perhaps other versions. 1. Libre Office Extensions: You need to install OpenJDK’s JRE version 7 (“openjdk-7-jre” is the package name) or at least some of your installable extensions from … Continue reading →

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