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- December 2, 2018
- World Computer Literacy Day
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Today is World Computer Literacy Day. It was initiated by an Indian computer firm called NIIT to commemorate the 20th anniversary of it's founding in 2001.
Apparently, they read research which indicated that most computer users around the world were of the male persuasion.
So now it goes down each December second in an effort to promote technology skills among the children and aims in particular toward "underserved" communities internationally.
A sidebar regarding it's creation is the promotion of Information Technology training and to celebrate the computer in general.
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- December 1, 2018
- George Herbert Walker Bush is dead
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George Herbert Walker Bush
June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018
American politician
41st President of the United States
Remember JFK
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- November 30, 2018
- The Cusp of December
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With November all but gone and December rolling in I am left to ponder those many holidays gone by.
I remember how the holidays were a time for relaxation and I would always seem to gain respite from the stressors of life and the workaday world.
My biological father had Christmas in his heart. It always shone through his participation in decorating and Christmas trees and what have you.
My step father was not exactly a Christmas fan per se, but his kindness, generosity and good will were with us 365 days a year.
As I embark on this, my 63rd Christmas season, I am left with the memories of those gone before that I hold so dear. I endeavor to do better next year though I decline to make a list of resolutions toward that end.
You see, it's impossible to change some things no matter how badly such change may be sought.
It's a difficult matter to attain what I call the "Scrooge Complex" where I might automagically become some enigmatic representation of all that is good and wise in the Christmas spirit ... although that thought is quite appealing.
Far be it from me to stand in criticism of others when my own attitudes could use so much work.
Suffice it to say that I remain a work in progress and toward that end I trudge on to my reward, whatever that may be.
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- November 29, 2018
- The Electric Smell Interface
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A system has been developed to transmit weak electrical signals to electrodes in the nostrils to simulate smells.
I suppose this precursor to digital 'smellovision' will add additional enjoyment to those porn videos replete with the smells associated with all that else which transpires on the various outlets.
No, I do not really approve. I don't think that there are any collections of smells that I truly couldn't live without — and somehow that chemical buffer between them and me is comforting.
It's just in my never ending pursuit of technological excellence that vision of a massive flatus collection simply may become irresistable.
Now if I can only figure out how to trigger the mechanism in an elevator and walk away laughing hysterically.
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- November 28, 2018
- Facebook Incurs the Wrath
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg from facebook incurred the wrath of lawmakers from nine countries who tore him and his company a new one Tuesday after his failure to attend an international committee hearing in Westminster, London.
I wonder just who they think they are anyway.
This guy has declared himself supreme ruler of everthing Facebook and they essentially have nothing to say which is his problem.
He gets paid anyway.
Until these social media boys are held to some set of objective standards for ethics they will continue to exhibit the contempt Facebook and Twitter and Youtube presently exhibit towards both their users and the rest of the world.
So he was lambasted by a bunch of law makers in London.
Big whup. London can't even keep the criminal element which is their Muslim riff raff under control. Their mayor is even a complicent muslim riff raff member. What chance do they have with Zuckerberg?
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- November 27, 2018
- The Upgrade Saga Continues ...
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The distro upgrade has been completed for the fourth time.
Each time I learned more about the inner workings.
I have accumulated about all of the information I require.
It seems that the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) stuff is pretty much unnecessary for my lowly box and hard coded into the distro.
So I must endure a boot message stating that there appears to be no bmc at this location and it will remain my little cross to bear unless some patch is released later.
Also, the cloud support embedded in this version is likewise unnecessary as I will not be part of the cloud proper ... but I don't have to pursue it as the firewall handles that nicely.
The burgeoning mail retool has become fairly complicated with the newer security requirements. The SMTP stuff is a breeze. It's the POP and IMAP delivery mess giving me a bit of the fits.
Be all of this as it may, I view it all as the requirements for forward motion in that evolving technology field into which I have been immersed since 1979.
So be it.
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- November 25, 2018
- Lost in Upgrades
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It's a difficult matter to maintain cutting edge technology.
I have been implementing a new distro of my OS on the mail server.
I rather wish I had waited but it's too late after you blow away the existing install.
The new distribution (like so many of the older ones) presents features unknown to me and requiring research and study of the modules and their impact upon operations.
Luckily, I have advised the critical others regarding the mail server's status and now have the time to pursue this matter.
Today I will reinstall for the fourth time.
Each time the install is quicker because I am better prepared for it.
They say that the resilient young become the wise old.
I keep wondering what the resilient old become ...
Technology marches on.
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- November 23, 2018
- Chuck Schumer's gd Birthday
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It's democratic idiot and rude yankee loud mouth Charles Ellis Schumer's birthday.
As the senior United States Senator from New York he along with his boorish colleague Maxine Waters ought to just crawl into some nasty Bohemian Grove hole and die.
Only then will they become "good" politicians.
Schumer exhibits the same screwed up 'preferred personal pronoun' mentality as a lot of those others ignorant of reality and facts from from New York ... including would be New Yorker, breaker of US law, killer of US soldiers, and looter of US public office, Hillary Clinton and her up and coming offspring Chelseeh who likely will grow up to monetize public office in the best traditions of her biological mama and stepfather, Bill.
If ever there were a more suitable target for the upcoming false flag UFO attacks in preparations it is the democratic party of the United States.
I just hope they aim those powerful earth-made particle beam weapons from those earth-made crafts with all the rivets in the right place.
Phonies taking out the other phonies ... how apropos that would be indeed.
Happy Birthday Chuck. Now go somewhere and die. Preferably a horrible lingering death. You and Maxine should have the courtesy to stop poisoning the air by breathing it.
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- November 22, 2018
- Happy Thanksgiving 2018
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- November 21, 2018
- Björk Guðmundsdóttir
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Björk Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic musician who does an eccletic mix of techno and experimental pieces which have caught my attention since the 1980s.
My first real interest began with her rendition of "Birthday" in 1987 for all the imagery and the alleged controversial meaning said to be behind the lyrics.
She has done a fair amount of trip hop (aka portishead sound) pieces which I have also found quite interesting and has collaborated with a great number of artists and multitude of projects.
Her range is stupendous and her lyrics typically intriguing and then there are her various interactions which make the news that just rounds her out to be the total interesting package for a guy with diverse interests like me.
She also indulges various interests which are not in her musical realm such as acting and that too piques my interest in her from time to time.
Anyway, once you go Björk you never go back ... and I haven't.
She's quite a multifaceted talent and today is her birthday.
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- November 20, 2018
- Transgender Day of Remembrance 2018
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The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), also known as the International Transgender Day of Remembrance to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of a nonexistent thing called "transphobia."
The "phobia" misnomers have somewhat confused me since their inception because they imply a "fear of" something where none exists.
A person in fear ls not likely to bash your ignorant of reality made up fake female booty and leave you bleeding in a ditch. Indeed, the "phobic" persons should be those who ignore reality and the facts of genetics and sexuality for their "feelings". For they are the endangered misguided species ... not the 'transphobic' animal doing the murdering.
While personally I am a "live and let live" kind of guy and not likely to take it upon myself to deprive you of your civil rights — like the right to respire and metabolize for your inability to realize what and who you are. I likewise do not care to indulge this fantasy that you're a "man" or "woman" just because that's the way you feel.
Also, it's quite a stupid idea to bring a stick to a gun fight and pick up rattlesnakes and such because you might "feel" they're harmless when they're not.
The existential facts care nothing about your feelings. They simply are what they are.
I respectfully submit that gender dysphoria is not "normal" by any stretch of the imagination and when you decide to force your lack of normality on some others you take your life into your own hands.
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- November 19, 2018
- Tony's Second Anniversary
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- November 18, 2018
- A funny thing happened on the way to a blog post
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I was going to do one of my patented rants ... this time regarding various recent events and give those involved a goodly ration of crap ...
Anyway after about three solid paragraphs of rant I found myself extolling what I view as good security on a multihomed local area network with a DMZ and then low and behold:
Twelve paragraphs later I had fully described my topology and security secrets in no uncertain terms for the entirety of the world to see.
Needless to say I deleted the whole 15 or so paragraphs and wrote this little thingie instead.
Suffice it to say; I don't need anyone knowing everything I have going on ... both in my DMZ and behind my firewall. I've got plenty of both and it's simply something I'd rather keep to myself. I guess it's not only the prerogative of women to change their minds abruptly.
Just slap me silly and call me Susan. She's the stupidest person known to me.
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- November 17, 2018
- World Prematurity Day 2018
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Premature birth implies a newborn which is not fully developed and therefore less than able to attain a status of 'thriving' with some even likely to expire before they've even began to really live.
World Prematurity Day comes around each November 17 since 2008 (with official recognition in 2011) in an effort to bring awareness of preterm birth children to the fore in the presence of some 15 million such babies being born annually.
Those birth defects and other perinatal disabilities prematurity cultivates in newborns limiting their survival rates is the aim of the understanding to be imparted by this day which has become an international observance.
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