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Slimboat Is Better than Chrome
Update: There have been reports of suspicious activity from Slimboat and Slim browsers. At least one user reported a distinct attempt to download malware coming from the running process. My own experience is that using Slimboat brings on a lot … Continue reading
Woolgathering
Reviewing things I’ve seen in the past few weeks provokes a few thoughts about faith. The biggest barrier remains the vast pool of cultural thought patterns, by which false images become associated with Scripture. People understand the words well enough, … Continue reading
Posted in personal
Tagged children, church, internet, mysticism, peace, religion, spirituality, western christianity, western civilization
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Double Agent
It’s not schizophrenia, it’s roles within differing contexts. Online I am a pastor and prophet. It’s not as if I don’t do pastoral work in meat space, but it’s not the emphasis. The closest I come to that in the … Continue reading
Posted in prophecy
Tagged civilization, communications, computers, internet, meat space, ministry, technology, writing
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VMWare Player on Wheezy
It doesn’t really matter why; you might have any number of reasons for needing to run Windows software on your Linux box. Sometimes WINE is enough. It works pretty good for things like Notepad++ and it’s not too bad if … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged computers, debian, internet, linux, software, VM, VMWare Player, windows
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Life, the Internet and Everything
If the Internet is your world, you are walking dead. Please understand that the Internet is not the only possible implementation of networking technology, and hardly the only means to giving life to the nascent Network Civilization. There are numerous … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged breaking point, civilization, culture, internet, mysticism, networking technology, religion, survival, technology
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Don’t Pass the Remote
Quantum thinking assumes multiple inputs and multiple outcomes from a single process, as well as multiple processes for any single question. Quantum moral reasoning recognizes humans aren’t really in control of much. People prefer to think they can remain in … Continue reading
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Tagged internet, logic, mysticism, peace, psychology, quantum reality, spirituality
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Compsec: Losing Control
The single greatest threat facing computer users is loss of control. Unaccountability is a two-edged sword. It’s bad enough people in power refuse to account for their actions to those affected, but we also have a full range of areas … Continue reading
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Tagged compsec, computers, government, internet, linux, society, technology, ubuntu, windows
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Internet as Booze
It’s a perennial subject since I can remember: Why are people far more rude on the Net than in real person? I was chatting with my friend David about it on Facebook, where we all know things can get really … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged civility, internet, mysticism, peace, psychology, social inhibitions, society
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Net Speculation 2
This is nothing more than my gibbering mind dreaming up vague probabilities. I can’t account for whence some of it comes, but take full responsibility for the idiocy. Linux will soon be almost entirely a corporate product. It will remain … Continue reading