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Realistic Mission
If you imagine your divine calling requires having control over the activities and behavior of others, you are lying to yourself and listening to Satan. I run Scientific Linux 6 on my computer, and I am an advocate for Open … Continue reading
Eating My Words
Pardon me while I walk my talk. I have to eat my words. The previous post in this space was about the joys of Cygwin, a POSIX emulator which made it possible to run something like Linux on your Windows … Continue reading
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My Last KDE Rant
This is the last time I’ll address this issue, because everyone knows the KDE developers and fans aren’t going to listen anyway. However, I’m pretty sure what follows is the sentiments shared by everyone the developers and fans are trying … Continue reading
Technocracy of War, Part 4
She waited patiently, her paws crossed as she lay in the small patch of sun available in the fenced yard. Once each week, he walked past on the newly paved street which had replaced the gravel. In her mind, the … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, internet, open source, windows
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God Does Not Use a Computer
If you can’t step outside the whole debate, you can’t possibly understand any part of it. I know how David Gewirtz feels. He makes it pretty clear he’s not part of any of the computer religions. He’s just a power … Continue reading
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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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Economic Faith
Suffering from paranoia doesn’t make you inherently wrong about threats; it simply immobilizes your good actions. Basic distrust is just good sense. The best and most effective systems are those which limit trust by default. The myth of complete openness … Continue reading
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Killer Solitaire Package: PySolFC
For quite some years I have been a fan of PySol. If any particular Linux distro dropped it, I dropped that distro. Eventually it seemed to have disappeared. But no, it was rescued by it’s own fan club, so to … Continue reading
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Tagged bsd, linux, open source, windows
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Vim for Windows
At first, it was just Cream. I really started liking the extravagant syntax highlighting for my XHTML files. But I never could quite get some of those really off-the-wall keys strokes, even with Cream. Then I spent some time just … Continue reading