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Ubuntu Karmic and Your fonts.conf
I find it worthwhile to fight with fonts. Over the years I’ve learned a lot about how Linux handles fonts, and the only constant is change. Within Ubuntu, the developers keep making all these wonderful decisions, sometimes to counter to … Continue reading
Spidermonkey on Ubuntu Karmic
There is a noteworthy conflict on Karmic if you try to install libmozjs-dev because it conflicts with anything based on xulrunner 1.9. I can’t begin to explain why the Mozilla developers hold Spidermonkey to 1.8, but because of how the … Continue reading
Open Source, Closed Mind
This is a rant aimed at the Open Source Software Development Community as a whole. We recognize in the Social Sciences we have no choice but to make generalizations and stereotypes; otherwise, we get nothing done. Every grouping of humans … Continue reading
Inherently Broken: Government Employment
Not just military, but every arm of government bureaucracy is utterly anti-human. In this case, we have this universally despised Census Bureau, which has no clue about the US Constitution and the limits of their authority. They apparently also have … Continue reading
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Debt Is Death
More specifically, debt which is not 100% personal and private is what God hates. Once you break the personal bond, debt is inherently sinful. Christians have completely lost their way on this one. We still have one major institution in … Continue reading
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Join the Diaspora
Where do you congregate to share with fellow misfits who never join in mainstream pastimes? Where do the non-joiners join up? Diaspora. You can’t join yet, actually. The founders are college students struggling with finals about this time of year, … Continue reading
You Never Know
When it comes to survival skills and preparedness, there are some things you can never anticipate. Sure, you probably already know it’s getting where police are worse than the crooks. But unless you have access to something like an M2, … Continue reading
Data Mining on You
You should visit Spokeo. Type in your legal name, or the one you use most online. Lots of people are getting the creeps about this. They don’t dig up the information so much as aggregate what is publicly available, mostly … Continue reading
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Traveling the Internet, Speaking Computerese
Computer ministry requires a vision. In my case, the computers are hardly the point. It’s just a way to get close to people. I travel the region of human space called the Internet. I’m not all that interested in the … Continue reading
Oklahoma Prisons Break(down)
I live in Oklahoma, and my son works in one of the numerous prison facilities in this state. It’s not that I have an interest, so much as I know intricately the details of this idiocy. What we have here … Continue reading
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