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RHEL/CentOS 6 for the Clueless: Overview
Reader note: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is currently available but not exactly free. In a month or so we can expect the free version, CentOS 6 to be released. The difference is purely cosmetic, because CentOS simply removes the … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, linux, redhat, ubuntu
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Migrating from Windows to Linux: Security Considerations
First, we have to establish the context. The Internet itself is insecure, and it cannot be made secure. Even if you made your computer or your information cryptologically secure, you cannot prevent physical access to your computer or your person. … Continue reading
Migrating from Windows to Linux: User Considerations (revised)
Everyone has biases; wiser people are aware and admit them. All operating systems stink. You have to select the issues which your virtual nose can tolerate. My single strongest reason for using Linux instead of Windows is control. I find … Continue reading
The Meat of the Issue (Updated)
I don’t make New Years’ resolutions. I consider the Western calendar artificial, and the placement of the year’s end is arbitrary, not matching the natural rhythm of human existence. It’s just another day. Time itself is arbitrary, a fundamental element … Continue reading
Reprise: Question Is the Answer
It was hardly original of me to say questioning is itself the answer, but I have made it a recurring theme here. It remains a fundamental element in commitment to truth, one of my three pillars of mysticism. Because some … Continue reading
No Predictions for New Year
It is a good day to die. My dearly departed friend, Marion Brooks, and I shared that greeting often. After some 80 years, he was not yet finished with his life plans, and he considered his fatal condition a temporary … Continue reading
Leaderless Pacifism and Resistance
Let’s start with the foundation: The only legitimate government among humans is the one related to you by blood or covenant. The modern nation state is an abomination before God. We are not anarchists; we are anti-state. I could easily … Continue reading
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Tagged government, mysticism, peace, resistance
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A Pacifist Answer to Martial Law
Given my decision to consider myself, here in the US, under Martial Law, yet having renounced the underground patriot resistance approach, I suppose I might outline for my readers just what it is I will be doing differently. Not much. … Continue reading
Gramscian Martial Law
Gramsci: more than just a communist, but a political theorist. TPTB are fans of his theories. Antonio Gramsci was a transformational Marxist… what Gramsci advocated was the transformation of a society to the communist state via gradualism — the gradual … Continue reading
Word for Word: The Other Half
When it comes to matters of great import, things which can scarcely be put into words, we rely heavily on first person communication. But when you and I seek to examine the noise of political propaganda, it is a wholly … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, culture, oppression, propaganda, resistance
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