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No One Speaks for Me
There is a vast world of ordinary people out there who are used and abused, particularly in the world of computing. When it comes to the very fundamental questions of life, I exempt no one from the duty to find … Continue reading
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Firefox: Anti-Business?
It appears Mozilla leadership is telling corporate partners to get lost. I realize Ed Bott is a devoted worshiper of Microsoft. But that doesn’t mean he’s ignorant, nor especially dishonest, just biased. When he says Mozilla to enterprise customers: “Drop … Continue reading
Cyberwar and False Flags
So LulzSec takes down the SPARC server for the US Senate website, and appears to have snagged, or is capable of snagging, all the emails. I’m suspicious. I’ve already said I’m pretty sure Anonymous has been infiltrated, if it isn’t … Continue reading
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Your Next False Flag
Expect our lying US government to pull out all the stops for the next false flag attack. A few years ago I removed myself from the traditional church scene, which had, up to that time, been my primary career choice. … Continue reading
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Stopping Forum Spam
(Yeah, it’s a slow day.) A friend asked me to join a discussion forum. Then he gave me admin rights. I’ve been moderator on a handful of mailing lists and forums, in part because I tend to go after problems … Continue reading
This Is Not the Year of the Linux Desktop
I’m writing this from my Linux box, and once again, there is always something broken. Don’t tell me your distro is the best, that if only everyone else would get behind it, Linux could overtake Windows or whatever else is … Continue reading
The On-going Trainwreck of the Linux Desktop
Opinionated rant follows… KDE died for me with the birth of the new philosophy in KDE 4. Granted, the Trinity Project keeps hope alive, but frankly that community lacks the resources for delivering the goods beyond the Kubuntu desktop. I’m … Continue reading
Personal Computing in the Apocalypse
As if having a computer would matter when all Hell is breaking loose… So I claim to be a prophet of God, but that does not guarantee I can answer your questions about tomorrow. God only tells me what He … Continue reading
Geek Wars: Overriding RHEL Defaults in Vim Plugins
Between the RHEL package managers and the upstream providers for Vim, the default formatting options for some file types is wrong and exceedingly difficult to override. (I’m using Scientific Linux 6.0, but they deny changing the Vim packages provided by … Continue reading
Rampant Deception
The officials and news outlets have been steadily lying to us about the danger from the nuclear reactors in Japan. The idea was to protect GE’s stock, since they designed and built these failing reactors. The US government has been … Continue reading
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