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Cover Your Tracks in Linux, Part III 2008-03-05 18:03:00 Encryption is perhaps the best way to secure data on a PC. Though it is not bullet proof, with the proper precautions it can be the closest thing to it. Read more:Cover
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Cover Your Tracks on Linux Part II 2008-02-14 15:04:09 In part one, I covered how to set up KDE and Firefox so that your Internet activities would not be cached on your system. In this post, I am going to go over a few basic disk wiping procedures in case you find yourself worrying about your private corporate data, personal credit card info, [...] Read more:Cover
, Linux
Cover Your Tracks on Linux, Part I 2008-02-13 01:21:03 If you use Linux
and wish to keep your desktop machine more or less free of any traces of your activity, there are a few techniques I have picked up which may be of some benefit. Assuming you aren’t a secret agent working clandestinely in a technologically sophisticated foreign country and assuming you don’t [...] Read more:Cover
An Ode to The Message Board Authoritarians 2008-02-04 16:52:30 Ever since the dawn of the online world for the private individual, one thing has remained constant: people love to get online and discuss myriad of topics with other people from all over the world. This is a good thing. However, the liberated Internet poster still has to deal with the Internet authoritarians who [...] Read more:Board
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America vs. The World in Broadband Internet 2008-02-01 19:46:41 I recently acquired a home broadband Internet
connection from a cable company, who happens to be the only cable company operating in my area. Although DSL is available in the general area, it is not available to my home. Even though I feel like I am now in a whole new world online [...] Read more:America
, World
Switching to Linux For Good 2008-01-28 00:16:42 I have tinkered with various Linux
distros over the past five years, but have been imprisoned in Windows for several years now. Now, with the growing number of distros and with the ever increasing ease of installation, this has changed. I am making the transition away from Micro$oft for good. Read more:Switching
Can We Really Trust Big Drugs? 2008-01-15 08:52:36 According to a new study on the widely used cholesterol blocking drug “Vytorin,” the drug is not effective in one of its two major roles — reducing the build-up of plague in the arteries. Read more:Drugs
Home Schooling and Government Regulation 2008-01-12 12:41:24 It appears that various “experts” within the big education industry are clamoring for yet more government regulation in another area of the lives of Americans. In the wake of the death of four children who just so happened to be home schooled, it appears these “experts” are using an underhanded non-sequitar argument in order [...] Read more:Government
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Obama’s William Ayers Problem 2008-03-10 05:04:01 Barack Obama
is in the middle of a number embarrassing revelations relating to the identities of some of his controversial supporters, and these revelations may just be explosive enough for his rival, Hillary, to eat him alive. Read more:Problem
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More NAFTA Garbage 2008-03-08 13:52:03 This opinion piece from The Boston Herald shows exactly how King George II is able to dupe the American public into believing that NAFTA has worked. “We have created 2 million jobs” says King George II. All the blame can’t be put on King George, of course. NAFTA was signed into law under Klinton. Read more:Garbage
Big Brother Or Early April Fool’s Joke? 2008-03-21 00:07:09 I’ve heard people say that the biggest threat to privacy are the big corporations trying to target consumers for advertising (as opposed to the government spy programs). We know this already happens with ISP’s selling Internet browsing habits to advertisers. Now it might go a step further with cable T.V. companies getting in the [...] Read more:April
, Big Brother
, Brother
, Early
God’s Perfect Circle: Or Is It? 2008-04-26 08:11:59 God is an amoral God (do not confuse this with immoral). God has set the laws of the universe in motion and has allowed it to take the course therein programmed. If people suffer, it is of no consequence to God since it was in his divine “cosmic syntax” to allow these events to occur. [...] Read more:Circle
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, Perfect Circle
Warning: Sergeant’s “SentryPro XFC” 2008-05-05 21:08:11 In order to avoid spending $50 on Frontline’s excellent anti flea and tick medication for my dog, I decided to pick up a little known brand that is manufactured by Sergeant
’s (SentryPro XFC). “It’s great stuff, better than Frontline” the pet store employee told me. Little did I know that in putting [...]
It’s Been A While 2008-06-04 19:50:36 It’s been nearly a month since my last post. I try to maintain a routine posting habit, but have fallen off a bit. So, I apologize to my millions of fans.
I have been experimenting a bit with my newly built PC that I have loaded with PCLinuxOS, which is perhaps the best [...]
There Is No Need For AV On Linux 2008-06-15 03:55:04 It is often said that the only reason viruses and malware are not a problem in the Unix/Linux
world is because these OS’s don’t hold the market share that Windows does, and are thus not as big of a target. Unsurprisingly, most of the parrots on the Internet who echo this line of balderdash [...]
A Short Treatise of a “Cynic” 2008-06-15 01:33:03 I am often called a cynic by many of those that know me. I disagree with such labels, as I consider myself more of a “realist,” or more appropriately, a skeptic.
As I have explained in other posts on this site, I believe nothing; that is, often times even empirical observation is not enough to thoroughly [...] Read more:Short
The Teclos Are Officially Untouchable 2008-07-10 15:57:21 It’s a wonder what a few million dollars in bribes can buy from Congress, or is it? After spending millions, the telcos have finally won the fight in their search for immunity from civil suits filed by the ACLU and EFF, among others. The so-called FISA bill was passed yesterday, thus giving telcos a green [...]
Gentoo Rules 2008-08-12 05:27:09 I’ve done a lot of Linux distro hopping lately and have been pleased with some (like PCLOS) and disappointed in others (Fedora 9). I decided to take the leap to Gentoo, which is, along with Slackware, widely considered one of the more “difficult” distros to use.
I chose Gentoo because of its oft’ heralded configuration and [...]ShareThis Read more:Rules
Stupid Ads 2008-09-18 10:32:28 In this conspicuous age of hand-holding, where the public looks to the government and politically motivated philanthropists for guidance in living everyday life, it’s no surprise that there are a number of very perplexing and, frankly, silly “public service” advertisements out there.
One such example that really gets under my skin is this “public service advertisement̶ Read more:Stupid
Politics, Sociology, and the Economy 2008-10-09 05:11:49 I was thinking tonight about this so-called “economic crisis” and the presidential campaign. There is little doubt that Obama’s current nine point lead is mostly a direct result of public fear of the enigmatic, and probably criminal, occurrences on Wall Street and the uncertainty of how the collapse of a few major banks and [...] Read more:Sociology
Remote Bandwidth Logging Using a Linux Box and Tomato Firmware 2008-10-21 05:05:10 After scratching my head for a few hours trying to discern precisely why my perfectly configured Samba share was not being recognized by my Tomato
flashed Linksys WRT54GL router, I finally had a Eureka moment (er, well, a eureka moment after scanning Google for hours). Even though I found the answer, it took me hours [...] Read more:Bandwidth
, Firmware
, Linux
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