Archive for September, 2006
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.” —Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Why…
Thursday, September 28th, 2006oh why is there no support for the Areca raid controllers in the stock linux kernel yet? They provide source code, they have packages for a number of different distributions (and often several versions of those distributions). Support for it was in the -ac kernel back when there was a -ac kernel. [...]
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006“What is a sacrament? It is a thing which not only does what it symbolizes but symbolizes what it does.” —Mr. Mark Shea[1]
Mr. Mark Shea. “Women Priests?” Holy Spirit Interactive. Viewed 2006-09-27. http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/columns/markshea/sheavings/50.asp
’twas worth a try
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006Unfortunately for now, doing so will not actually produce much, as it appears that SF’s firewall will not allow the planet to pull from an external site. So until we get a server of our own up and running, my posts will continue to only show here.
Novell Fixes
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006Following Sean’s lead, I am going to try to post about gaim with at least some consistency. It likely will not be great frequency, because my time for gaim has been reduced, but I can still offer a few thoughts that might have wider interest.
Of particular note in my mental stack of ideas recently [...]
top 10 unix commands
Monday, September 25th, 2006luke@server1:~$ history|awk ‘{print $2}’|awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10<br/> 90 ls<br/> 71 cd<br/> 49 vi<br/> 28 mv<br/> 20 rm<br/> 18 screen<br/> 17 cp<br/> [...]
For My Reference
Monday, September 25th, 2006Since I have a propensity to lose track of articles that I have not taken the time to write more fully about, a listing of some of the ones I have neglected.
Catholic News Agency. “Roman Catholic, Orthodox Churches pledge to seek unity” www.catholicnewsagency.com 2006-09-19. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7648 Ms. Sue Ellin Browder. “Dirty Little Secret: [...]
an unfortunate irony
Monday, September 25th, 2006I find it deeply ironic when it is left to third world countries to defend against potential abuse of women.[1] It is also deeply tragic.
Ms. Samantha Singson. “Nations Begin to Debate Ethics of Sale and Donation of Human Ova” Friday Fax Volume 9, Number 40 2006-09-21. http://www.thefactis.org/default.aspx?control=ArticleMaster&aid=1598&authid=11
Back to School Night
Thursday, September 21st, 2006This year only one teacher mistook me for a parent. Or at least, only one did so audibly. Quite an improvement. The teacher presentations are really boring, how is it that parents can be so interested? Oh, yes, this is your sylabus, and oh, like every other teacher, you have a [...]
Science and Technology
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Science gained its authority from the successes of technology. When Daniel Dennett of Tufts wants to offer unanswerable proof of the supremacy of science, he writes, “I have yet to meet a postmodern science critic who is afraid to fly in an airplane because he doesn’t trust the calculations of the thousands of aeronautical engineers [...]
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