This is the way the world ends
Of course the federal government cannot force individuals to actually buy something they don’t want, but it is just as much an abomination that the court didn’t strike down the power of the federal...
View ArticleTime to Part with My Illusions
I removed the Amarok button on the bottom of Vault today. It was long past time but I didn’t really want to say good-bye to what used to be the greatest media player on any platform ever. The...
View ArticleI am sure the grapes are sour
I am just documenting a couple Firefox settings that need to be fixed. These settings can be modified in the about:config section of the browser. Why Firefox seems to think they need to copy...
View ArticleA Part of the Maine
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther While checking one of my WordPress sites I noticed an update for one of my favorite...
View ArticleGeniuses remove it
I am starting to believe that in the Poettering household, simplicity was considered a cancer that must be tortured and destroyed with extreme vigor. Systemd is quickly becoming thoroughly ubiquitous...
View ArticleWe have been betrayed by both
I know this is basically a rant but, there seems to be a fundamental disconnect between people’s understanding of economics and reality. Just to be absolutely clear, undue political influence by...
View ArticleThat Time Does Not Reveal
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes...
View ArticleFrittered away by detail
My first reading of the http 2.0 draft proposal left me with the feeling that they were trying to address issues that are not really problems. At least, not a problem unless you happen to be someone...
View ArticleThe evils which have never happened
I found this stupidly useful shortcut inside of cron. Generally crontab entries look like this: * * * * * username dosomething With the * corresponding to minute, hour day of month, month, day of...
View ArticleThis is how the world end
I have a family member who recently said to me that if I posted pictures of them on Facebook, they would stop speaking to me. This, entirely understandable, concern stems from their conscious concern...
View ArticleMy Creed
Over the course of the last couple years of I have been putting more thought into some of the core beliefs I hold about things other than faith or family. How do I see the world and how does such...
View ArticleThe sum of all fears
Update 5/25/2017: This is a post I started over a year ago. In the interim Ubuntu has officially dropped the plan on a convergent desktop. Mark Shuttleworth might argue that convergence will...
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