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Stumbling Around RHEL 6.0: Printing (Updated)

Posted on December 4, 2010 by ehurst

Way back in the old days of Red Hat, printing was no more difficult than using the supplied RedHat config tool for setting up your LPRng queue. Since the arrival of CUPS, I’ve often felt it continues to be one … Continue reading →

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Radical Honesty

Posted on December 3, 2010 by ehurst

The world isn’t ready for honesty. Sure, we like to think we prefer it, but the issue depends on our own internal willingness to be honest with ourselves. One of the pillars of Christian Mysticism is a radical commitment to … Continue reading →

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Stumbling Around RHEL 6.0: Kernel Update

Posted on December 2, 2010 by ehurst

I keep two harddrives in my system so I can test different OSes while keeping one I can trust. After playing awhile with RHEL 6.0 Beta, I let it go and went back to using Ubuntu Lucid. I had some … Continue reading →

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Decentralized versus Centralized DNS: Why?

Posted on December 1, 2010 by ehurst

In a discussion on a private mailing list, the issue of decentralized DNS was raised, in light of the recent battles between the corporate media working through government versus the pirate industry. Why would a bunch of Christian Open Source … Continue reading →

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Underground Internet and Global Patterns

Posted on December 1, 2010 by ehurst

Global patterns: It’s not about ultimate truth and reality, any more than a single model of human behavior can explain everything we observe. Detecting a global pattern is simply a way of modeling human behavior on a broad scope. I’m … Continue reading →

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Righteous Survival in a Global Meltdown

Posted on November 29, 2010 by ehurst

Ambitious title for my post, no? So we had late yesterday (US time) the dreaded Wikileaks release of secret embassy traffic. I reiterate what I’ve said in the past: Notice who wasn’t embarrassed by this stuff. The major player in … Continue reading →

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Our Injustice in Korea

Posted on November 28, 2010 by ehurst

So we are stirring up trouble again, this time in Korea. Our US government is jonesing for a new war to create a new public fear whip and keep us in line. Take a look at the maps. That little … Continue reading →

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Jesus Cracked a Whip

Posted on November 27, 2010 by ehurst

If you’ve read the Gospels in the New Testament, you are aware of the narrative where Jesus drove the currency scalpers out of the Court of Gentiles. The story goes Jesus bundled some cords together and used it like a … Continue reading →

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Backup Static Site Hosting (Updated)

Posted on November 26, 2010 by ehurst

Tonight my static website (soulkiln.org) is unavailable. This is the first time this has happened, as far as I know, in several years since starting that site. I have no complaints whatsoever against the fellow who provides the hosting of … Continue reading →

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Repent While There’s Time

Posted on November 26, 2010 by ehurst

God has called me to prophesy. Nothing I write or say as prophecy will diverge from anything written in the Bible, provided you can read it with the same frame of mind as those who wrote it. The great legacy … Continue reading →

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