The original Idea of this page was to promote the use of Linux.
That is no longer necessary at this point in time, since Android IS
Linux and it is rapidly becoming the dominant OS in mobile.
It is causing a global shake up of how computing technologies integrate
into society... Linux won, if you want to look at the world that
way.
It won in the supercomputers then in the servers and finally in mobile.
I am using the workstation adaptation of AMD X-86-64 technology
to get my daily chores done and it lives in aptosid Linux land.
Yes it is just a muscular PC but that today, is not trivial. What this page will do for the
foreseeable future is prototype the new way of implementing web
technologies to make our web site better, faster and I am looking to
make it aesthetically pleasing with good design at the core of it all.
Does that mean that I go running to some cookie cutter web creation
tools that look great while ripping up the roadway with nasty bad
code... No I don't think it is necessary to simply cave to expediency
with a sameness of web design that will become bland in time. nor does
it mean that I will pass up on some great technologies that are
becoming available and much easer to use.
The video testing page which can change hourly is here it may or may not be operational at any one time and is volatile, do not expect it to be functional....
But on the other hand it may well be, that is after all the goal.
We use aptosid Linux
It is an advanced rolling release
distribution of Linux based on the latest unstable Debian
branch called sid. ( Think
"Toy Story" - Sid )
In the context used here unstable is used to refer to the high rate of
change of the entire distribution. All of the software within the
kernel, shell, applications and user environment of the entire OS and
all of its applications... generally called a Linux Distribution, of
which there are literally hundreds of distributions used for many
different purposes.
The name "aptosid"
- Is made up of two words apto +
sid
.... apto (to fit or make
ready) +
sid (Debian Linux, most advanced or unstable state. Packaged and
stabilized by
the developers of "aptosid" continuously. The goal is development
for the future and on the edge of the
future.... Distro version name today is aptosid 2011-03 Πόνος -
kde-lite
My Machine is:
Most recent full distro 2011-3 upgrade which happens
more or less twice a week, today is 2-03-12:
The System is very fast and pretty powerful for a desktop workstation with a functional enhanced Google Earth application.
Also It has several browsers types and I am building up the video
editing capabilities as a requirement of the new web site build up.
.
A desktop Linux system as I use it... Your flavor can be what ever you
wish it to be. The machine supports many parallel desktops and
dozens of parallel applications working simultaneously, if i need it
to, kind of rare to have that need... but it will do it. Routinely
though I will have one desktop running 7 or 8 applications all at once
because of editing... That is normal.
About Linux (not just the
kernel but the entire immense project
in its entirety mostly made up of open source software. by design
and necessity of perfected growth, a
meritocracy.
The benefit to humanity is beginning to be seen in Mobile (Android), Also in Supercomputers,
Intelligence, defense, NASA
and Open Source Software
(apache) powers most
of the internet itself.
Knowledge is power, truth (wisdom) clears the fog of ignorance or
misinformation.
Linux will not be
stopped.
Fact is
Linux is of
Strategic importance to the US and the rest of the world
now. So Say the DoD and DoJ as well many other countries. http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/April/11-at-491.html
Evolution and developers cutting edge
growth
is what the aptosid Linux distro is all about:
A new version
of the Kernel...
Linus Torvalds
gives 20th anniversary present... Linux Kernel
version 3.0 rc1... Just because,
Read, Linus notes http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1147415
What does it mean... All of the numbers are just markers whose
significance mark progress, nothing more... if 3.0 is just
yesterday then now a few months later its 3.0-6.slh.5
Thousands of programs that
underly the system are evolving and so too all of the major apps have a
continuous upgrade path ... I
used OpenOffice 3.2.1 now just a few months ago...
Now it's LibreOffice 3.4.3
OOO340m1 (Build:302) upgrade just a few weeks ago Sept 1, 2011
Unlike computers that depend on upgrades from a manufacturing
distributer like Dell, Gateway or Sony and HP to name but just a
few. And running systems with a MS Windows environment were one
can wait years for things to happen, (Microsoft® XP is over 10 years
old, in terms of computers and time, that is the Jurassic period)
Linux can be, if one choses
to do follow a pioneering path running in the future of
computing.
It really depends on how wants to see the future. See
the future from Windows and you will see the tail lights of Linux in
the distance in front of you...
Use Linux and in the rear view mirror... is the past... in front
the future of the technological world that is to be.
Below: LibreOffice 3.something or other. .
I take the path that believes the good of it outweighs the not so
good... that is to say I live in a right now world of computing
were the future meets the present in application to the real world.
Linux serves the future by responding to the current
needs of its users and true innovation (real innovation by
accomplishment).
Android in your future phone is a form of Linux.
Linux is a right
now thing if you want it to be so...
aptosid -(lowercase is correct) Linux is the opposite of
Enterprise grade Linux. (so
stable it is dead) that is what Enterprise
means. Super Reliable but dead as a doornail. Look, many
people need that. That is why it is that way, it is bug free because it
is locked into
itself and nobody touches the code, ipso facto OLD but
very very
reliable. Here is an example of a Enterprise Grade Linux
So in the opposite direction of enterprise Linux is
something like aptosid... Everyday is a
new day. it gets that done via its Rolling Release development
methodology. What is a rolling
release?
Short answer... Instead of testing or release "versions" the
distribution, it is built to a live CD or DVD that you make... more
like
the entrance to a freeway. Once your system is running on your Hard
Disk, it gets updated
whenever you wish to go through the process of updating it, from the
network, with as many of the applications and programs you are running
in total. different days different programs and applications as they
occur in the real world right now.
Both ways of running a Linux are valid and serve
different needs or desires. and these are the extremes of the world.
Many people have heard of Ubuntu and its few flavors like Kubuntu... it
is another Debian based Linux in a somewhat enclosed environment made
to be user friendly to a Windows based user trying to get away from
Windows... got to start somewhere if you are to get that needle out of
your arm... Kubuntu (I like KDE) is a very good place to start if
you want lots of company and are just a little intimidated by a full
blown massive and steep learning curve of Linux. Make no mistake,
LINUX IS NOT WINDOWS. what you see on the screen has nothing to
do with how it works.
Want to learn how to install or test and install or just use Ubuntu
Linux... Nixi does Linux (this is about as easy as she gets). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3VOiMBtaA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
enjoy
So....
Now its time to explain the number
of Linux distributions... and why this makes Linux so
powerful and in the viral sense essentially indefeasible.
Its all tied together at the core and that is just about all that is
tied together.... http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html
But wait... you think Linux XYZ is a fork of something called Linux ZYX
or
something implying a mess of unrelated Linux's cluttering up the
universe. > 400 plus distros and counting... well these
are versions of.. or specialized variations of ONE Linux
standard base...
To this day (yes) not one virus or
malware has
survived in the wild with any Linux as a social event. goes
to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
Period, not one. I could go on and on about it but what would the
point be. security is very much in the minds of those who code
for Linux and it is always in the forefront of seriousness but there is
also the aforementioned inherent fact of its reality. Linux is
very secure So
say the NSA and I as well, even as a desktop
user, more so because my desktop Linux makes a statement, even slightly
with what is possible.
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Google Earth 6 a good example of a collaborative software being used
between a computer and a server out in cyberspace
(Note 11-25-2011: I have successfully compiled the Google Earth
6.0.3.2197 to fully work with non proprietary video drivers )
Google Earth 6.0.3.2197
Build
Date I used the original program
that I had built for this computer, I got it to work on 11-1-2011
using freedom drivers
Build Time 5:16:07 pm
Renderer OpenGL
Operating System Linux 3.1-2.slh.3-aptosid-amd64 x86_64
Video Driver nouveau
Max Texture Size
4096x4096 I am working on increasing the texture size to be
competitive with the proprietary nVidia drivers 8192X8192
Server
kh.google.com
Old System with the Nvidia goober code drivers. Google Earth 6.0.3.2197
Renderer OpenGL
Operating System: Linux
(3.0-6.slh.5-aptosid-amd64 x86_64) aptosid
Video Driver: NVIDIA Corporation
Max Texture Size: 8192x8192
Server: kh.google.com
Here is a picture of the result running as I take a look at Portland OR: .
Portland, OR. in simulated 3D dynamic as one "flying" over it.
The whole world is there to look at and study. From the smallest little
nothing
island to some of the more hidden places on Earth.
Right down to street level for many.
Here is a sideways view of a street. As one can see it is a mixture of
satellite imaging and a database of known data of an area. This
shot is not quite fully completed in this picture as I caught it mid
processing and the texture maps are visible here.
This is powerful technology. .
The house is accurate as it is on a street I know well... soon the
whole street will be in 3D. It is the future of things to come.
Is it proper to have this kind of technology available with this kind
of power? Like all tools it depends on how it is used.
That is an entirely different matter way beyond the
scope of this page... In a free society it will be available to
all, in a closed one, few will be capable of this.
Knowledge is power... using it with good intent and
integrity is a problem society will anguish with. And it is most
certain that a well educated population is fundamental to an answer
that leads to the light and not the dark side of the human
condition.
The more Mac-d-education that Americans get,
teaching
the test... the farther
the answer will get to a productive and sane future.
( Oh you mean today we have the people educated a few years ago,
running the show. )
if you look closely you can just see the stupid level rising some in
the quality of people who dream of power over others in Washington
now...
Sorry, I digress.
How accurate is it... Google Earth that is. .
This was made with the previous version G.E. 5.0 - not bad, one is a
picture from the top of the WTC (1985) with Ektachrome and the other is
Google Earth a year ago.
current file manager:
KDE
Dolphin
Version 1.6.1
Using KDE Development Platform 4.6.5 (4.6.5)
screenshot below. .
FYI... The horn antenna (in red highlight) is very likely
one I built while at Watkins Johnson Co in the 1970s A microwave
antenna horn 12.4 to 18.0 G Hz
.
A good distro of Linux will have many good applications...
aptosid based on Debian will have about 37,000... programs and
applications that provide all of the things one might want a computer
to do.
The trick is to know what you need and what you do not need OR... A
better way to think of it is to understand that just because you can
take your ship into iceberg filed waters... do you have the skills to
get out of them.
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Aptosid upgrade in progress:
Photo of this process which is done below the use of
a GUI ( KDE ) which means ( command line is your friend when its needed
). .
Thats right... you log out of the high level system
(KDE) Log in with the command line (bash) as root and shut the KDE
process
down (leave the GUI not running -- init 3 ) then start the
upgrade process by getting updates relevant to your individual
system. Once the updates are loaded you compile them to your
machine... actually the machine does this compiling task.
I have about 1500 applications installed - that is every process
that this computer uses to do its running state as a desktop
computer.
It just runs. I do this three times a week.
What is special to Linux is the ability to do this, including the heart
of the system (the Kernel) while it is running. This is some powerful
stuff. This is Linux.
aptosid user/member # is 97 (not a power number or
anything other than I was there when sidux changed to aptosid and
logged in early and re-registered as one of the members) .
This avatar was made from a frame of film Lord
of the Ring's using the GIMP
as it appears at left, it was never in any film it just looks
like it might have.
I have been a serious Linux user ever since
working
at Intel in the mid-late 1997 were I was a configuration guru at MD6
Jones farm, Hillsboro, OR.
Strangely enough I was hired as something of an
expert at Windows® configurations, having worked for a local custom
microcomputer configuration company for several years Win95 then Win98
at Intel it was NT3.51 and NT4. and after 18 months
plus a few weeks, I left believing that Microsoft was history and Linux
was going to master the world. I still think that is inevitable.
We made crash test dummy's of windows computers and recorded the last
moments of life as they were stressed to death.
(not that hard to do) Intel made special instructions to the core of
their processors that made Windows run better than it otherwise
could. Errata corrections in firmware.
I also was someone who installed many different operating systems for
testing... all of them that were usable at that time in an X86
environment.
The Engineers at Intel pointed me in the direction of Linux as
something of
interest with a real potential future (Red hat Linux 4.x and 5.x) I was
hooked
good, even though it was not that easy to use *then* but it was
reliable.
I taught computer configuration at a local College for a short time
afterward. By then though our electronics company was standing on
its own.
And from before, long ago, I share a patent in computing/video
technologies from the early 1990's http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=1996008108
When I was with Unilearn and the related company Foresight before
that. . .(More details http://www.patents.com/us-5576844.html
)
Actually I go back to the days of ECM3 and Watkins Johnson
Co from 1971, a world of physics and microwave antennas.
above: Anechoic chamber test station at WJ 1976ish.
Watkins-Jonson Co. {(Palo Alto
and San Jose, CA) and Gaithersburg,
Maryland}
I have built thousands of computers and this is were I am, mostly
now
as a hobby and for our company and friends... I have no commercial
interest in computers... we manufacture AC power products, audio and
video related electronics and stereo interconnects and speakers.
There is something really satisfying in building something that lasts
and is
someones desired possession.
( Jennifer calls computers "Office
Sledgehammers", perhaps she is right... I like metal
forging anyway, if you want to think of it like that... Make a better
hammer )
I felt much satisfaction in making
something that was great. Worked on the Space Shuttle
(WJ-Rockwell
Antennas) 5 years, prototype R&D to delivery fabrication and final
test.
And made devices that were sent to the ends of the solar system and
beyond.
Also spent much time as a film fanatic playing, teaching and
doing old school motion picture optical FX while attempting to be an
associate producer. Picture credit: Todd A. Marks -
Computer/Video Playback Supervisor
Above: Yours truly in the early 1980's ( Kind of
explains the
interest in Xena WP.... well, a little, I really like the production of
something out in front of the norm and forward looking storytelling...
Watching outtakes of that production... Make me wish I could of been
there. That is what I would call fun, even now, I still like the
interaction of all of the complexity of the people who made that.
Lots of hard work went into Xena and a lot of enjoyment in the creative
effort, with a great cast and crew.
I also really think a lot about the production qualities of Star Trek
the next Generation. however it was far more mainstream... I kind of
like the wild not so Hollywood style even though I am something of a
film historian of the Studio System of Hollywood's past... sound era 1928
~ 1960's I am pretty good at playing "release date - name the
studio"
of any Hollywood film from any production company during the time of
the major studios. They all had their individual style
Computers are ephemeral... lasting no more than their
specific usefulness... then scraped or becoming outmoded by the
next
faster versions.
Don't save your antique Floppy
Drive, nobody cares... put them into a museum... but
don't hang onto something that will just be dropped like a used worn
out shoe (I still have functional 5.25 drives from Teac... going back
to 360K... I don't have any use now for these real relics of some
distant past.) Don't look back, can't look back... feel no regret
for a time or devices no longer of use with computers... That is a
living technology.
The Computers get replaced as needed... as the system
grows. As
an authentic fan and permanent user of Linux, I can with some
authority say Linux is here to stay and its usefulness is just
beginning
to be seen by the general population.
Linux was and is the power computing and high performance operating
system for some years now... But as a desktop computer for the general
public... I am always hopeful.
It is something which is sought by
someone looking for excellence and must be deliberately
found... and least I
forget to mention it is Fun to
Learn...
Linux is infectiously fun because of how it is made... made to run and
get multiple tasks done in parallel.
something of an extension of its legacy as an independently created but
better idea from the land of UNIX... not a Unix but like a Unix
which is were the cloud of yesteryear lived in... That is the
short answer as to why it is now the dominant operating system in all
things.
Freedom, powerful, ---http://www.ibm.com/ibm100/us/en/icons/linux/
Linux in mobile... already dominates and the trend
is
irreversible now... The reason is performance
and adaptability and developers are willing and interested in it.
I
think this is important not because I am personally pleased... (it
was inevitable on scientific grounds and Linux is the adaptable
one.) It was always the evolutionary winner based on
survivability and dynamic
resistance to viral infestation.
Linux was born as a web based OS, it kept pace and grew in that
environment...
As the general public is discovering, they are likely to discover Linux
as a mobile device or in their video system or automobile... an actual
desktop is to date, a rarity. About 3-5% of computer users.
mostly as over-installs of what was once a windows computer that
someone was tired of crashing and was willing to learn of something
better.
The real power of Linux rises to the top of its capabilities with
supercomputers.
IBM supercomputer means a future Linux Computer.
In this realm it has no peer or even faint competition. See this
graphic from the BBC {(select OS type (Operating System)} and every one
of the top 500 supercomputers around the world is listed.
and almost all will be running Linux or... in decline now, is its
predecessor relative, UNIX (takes a while to load... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10187248
)
Other popular Operating Systems for Personal Computer types are
essentially a no show... You see Linux can operate on a PC but
that is not were the effort resides... its a supercomputer operating
system. MORE http://www.top500.org/charts/list/36/osfam
My point is, Linux is the major Operating System of supercomputing now.
and it will also run flawlessly on a PC if one learns to use it.
It is a super secure operating system that as far as most computer
users are concerned, should they use it, exceedingly hardened against
any virus or other attack natively, due to its healthy diversity as a
computer ecosystem and its being born on the internet as its normal
environment. by design, Linux is not prone to getting a virus,
its not impossible, just very limited and rare.
fact.
It is fast, by design.
It scales up with ease.
Almost all advanced or high performance computing is designed around
Linux now.
Such that as this is being written... The Kernel of Linux ( just the
Kernel ) is the largest, fastest moving, computer software project on
Earth...
Linux Kernel development: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw
A good distro of Linux including its applications can easily go over
200 million lines of code. Remember as a desktop, has to do everything you can imagine.
Now about the relevance of Desktop Computers...
The demise of the PC desktop at the entry level of computing... and
that will be the eventual end of the road for those companies that
can't adapt or offer something genuinely innovative and high end at the
workstation level.
It is not the main focus of
the developers of Linux nor has it had significant market share.
Something between 1.5 and 5 percent depending on which voodoo you use
to calculate something that is not able to be calculated. And in
the
future, the PC is likely to go into decline for the average
person.
More of the general population are using laptops and mobile devices
today, actually having a fixed location Personal Computer is as a ratio
of those who have a computing device is beginning to decline... barely
noticeable but the trend is there.
So whats left. Open Source is changing the world for the better but it
does not happen by accident.
nor is just using proprietary software always good enough, it
turns out that in the end much of what make computer universally usable
is the Open Source software that is developed
A good example of that is the internet (most of it anyway). Still
there is a lot of improvement needed in support of the concept of open
source: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
It is not always possible so I suspect there will be exceptions. From
my point of experience and use that really is a short list and were
need exists, a way is likely found, in time.
My computers are headed into the future as workstations as they get
ever more powerful. However... the small PC is
likely to decline, being replaced by mobile devices which will be
dominated by Linux.
Open Source Software defines the world of the server... http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/201109/index.html
...
it is happening, look at the trends... Linux
and Open source software is the future and is dominant
now... Learn Linux and join the future. Become
powerful and
control your own destiny by knowledge of what is real.
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Some Applications that are useful:
A master file manager and desktop system. KDE,
Gnome, and several others are popular.
Caught while switching desktops... I know, this is
conservative stuff for a Linux computer.
maybe someday I will try some of the really pretty
bling... See just below, the you tube video from NixiePixel.
Above:
This system has many desktops as a potential workspaces... caught in
mid switch. just a plan cube, nothing fancy... see the video.
More here from YouTube (the cube better than mine) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGY9cwSjZsU&feature=channel
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A little intro about my personal attitude
about life:
In a lot of ways I think of my life the same way as the people who work
on this version of Linux view aptosid. Everyday
is a new day.
Thats about the end of the comparison of course but the relevance of
that is important...
I can be better today than I was
yesterday. One cannot change the past but one can learn and change the
future.
I am always trying to be better than I was. A
better
person. Something of a metaphor... of a better world, one person
at a time. I can only modify myself, so that is what I will do.
Live the dream of
who you would be, if you could choose... then make it
happen... It takes time, mistakes will happen... get over
it, pick yourself up and
try again.
That is not to say that someday I will be perfected, such is not
actually possible... Humans can only try to be the best that they can
be and that is different for everyone alive.
Everyone is different. Everyones goals are different and we each
have strengths and weaknesses that should tell us what to do if we
listen to our hearts and desires.
And if we know how to listen to what drives our passions... That is the
real secret. What is our inner being telling us and knowing how
to listen to it.
That is why the Creator of all things gave you an
evolutionary
brain... however you wish to see that, it is a fact... That is why we
learn. Individually, quite fast and at a far far slower pace,
collectively.
It is not for me to define how
you see the universe. Nor is it yours to define mine.
Below: My metaphor for
constant growth... Determination and a
will to know that it can be done.
.
Snapshot 7-11-11 of of desktop screen. The clock is
automatically linked to the internet so
it is always absolute time synced about +- .1 Sec.
Recognition of someone who lives to be better deliberately and works
hard at it every day:
Who is she? Reneé
O'Conner as "Gabrielle",
over six years of Xena WP
became the role, from an acting point of view... from sidekick bard to
awesome mature warrior with a
fearless heart. And with great wisdom and skills. Perhaps the
most transformational character in any
television series.
Real dedication to the role she created for herself and the
show. Both she along with Lucy Lawless ( "Xena" ), another go
getter
pushing the envelope of effort and skill.
Really, everyone else with
the entire series made television history by pushing the boundaries of
what is possible. From a first year 16mm program with little chance to
make it... to realizing 60 million a year brought into New Zealand for
a production budget to fill the local economy, this program had
legs. And went out with feature film status and a legendary
success with dramatic impact rivaling anything ever done in
television. Action series don't normally push story telling like
this program did. Or get away successfully with as much latitude in
story concept. They broke all the "Rules" successfully.
Something else drove the success of this seres and it is of no
small importance... they
had fun (hard work) making it.
Life should be like
that. If you do not enjoy what you are doing, do something
else.
* Becoming a champion of something does not mean
warlike for its own sake or goal in all meanings ... just the
sprite and
determination to
see a vision of oneself realized requires the mindset of one... And
it must come from the heart.* Reneé O'Conner kept the
attitude of transforming to become a better person as something of a
life long goal - that is why I admire her and she shares the quest with
others.
It is never easy to stand for something one believes in, to become
something special and different, to excel beyond oneself into some new
dimension of existence.
but
it can be done. Everyone changes in time, that is a trait of
being
human... but to predetermine a direction of that as a goal is
somewhat
rare.
It is a natural human growing
evolution ... I just say it can be made to happen faster, like
within your lifetime. Knowledge is the key. Application of that
knowledge is the engine of change.
Why Xena... I like the Idea of redemption... that somehow
it is possible. The comedy's are all stand-alone and
require no history of viewing. The dramas are a huge arc of
change and are interdependent for a good understanding of the
story. Yes, at the front of the story is a violence which is very
human and within that there is the possibility of a peaceful self...
which by the way was what became of the actors, they all saw it and all
of them now see that the staying power of the series resides in the
comedy's... Violence, war and its path are self destructive and
wears down the spirit of life... it wears down the spirit of
being human and of civilization, it is a misconception that it
generates better anything except the ability to generate war.
Be different, actually listen to the best thoughts
of the past and extend that wisdom to the living world. If an
idea sounds narrow and limiting of someone else's capabilities,
then the limitations are likely coming from within your own sense of
what is possible.
...It takes an effort of will to change initially in
a particular way. From the effort and experience of finding a new
path... opportunities thus seen will lead to new possibilities of were
that may lead that you may not see until you try. How will
you know when you get there.... There is no final
destination, just the journey.
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Many
powerful people and corporations
wish humans could be enslaved to old
Ideas that no longer have relevance to were we are as humans... or to
new ideas without relevance or meaning. What
changed was the way we communicate and the speed at which such change
occurred. It out-paced the attempts to control it by those who
would wish to do so and it has outpaced the general society's ability
to understand it. Some clever and powerful interests looking to
enslave the human race knew that it would
happen and then proceeded to dismantle the education system, as the
main
focus of attack. One intellectual U.S. President saw this many years
ago and gave fair warning. { http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY
... It takes a highly educated population
to control effectively a technological democratic republic. That
war over information and most importantly its dissipation around
the world is reaching full swing now. The future is most likely
not going to be pleasant,
it will not be gentle. There will be massive attempts to control what
you see and hear but most importantly how you understand and integrate
in your mind
these events as they happen. (thats the education part) The
press will not be freedom
orientated as most of the press is now an
online thing and that which is on most of TV is already controlled by
the major corporations.
As I said I believe that the war to control you
out-paced the previous attempts to control the process itself by those
who were attempting to control it.... This lull in the war will be
ephemeral in nature and may well be already too late for society to
rectify and for a more sane or humane outcome to prevail.
The very best you can do in this upcoming period of
time is:
1. Survive without violence. Violence just accelerates
itself...
2.
Understand what and why this is happening. All is not lost
as long as even a relevant minority of uncorrupted individuals hold
some kind of power within society... Gee, I'm an optimist.
3. Embrace the future by controlling your reactions to its changes and
in some productive way enhance a sense of humanity both in yourself and
to those around you. The last hope is your own.
And remember this both from history and human
behavior.
All humans seeking power over others are actually seeking domination
over others thoughts and actions and they all have self interest as
their only interest. It does not matter how they acquired power.
The best leaders in human culture seem to have
always been reluctant
wise people who both never sought power and took it with great
reluctance and with a powerful sense of civic duty.
How "Humane" they were depended much on how humane their culture or
upbringing was before they took power. But do notice that
whenever in human history such people had power it was always
somewhat self constrained. And in closing this best
offering to those who find it... The
best export the United States ever could of had was the one
thing it
never exported at all,
The Bill of Rights...
A country only
exists, if it exists in the hearts of its people. The more
corrupt the government becomes the less future it has, the shorter it
lasts.
How many of you seek the "One Ring of Power" or relish the idea
of its possession, if you could. That idea is altogether
the problem. It is the oldest love in the world. The love
of power.
... It would be nice if we all could try to be better, at being better
humans... It may not be possible, to see it or
judge what that would be. I just know it would be a better world.
In the words of Edward
R. Morrow "Good night and good luck"
The enemy of freedom is the absolute corruption of those who would
pretend to lead us to the light while sending us knowingly to our
doom.
Some aspect of the society that we live in needs to be
trustworthy... something relevant to the communication of
all...
guess what... something we use is trustworthy, something
important.
Its your computer with an operating system you build... it is
possible to know what is in it...
And more importantly... you can know how it works if you take the
time to learn.
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What is an Open Source Idea?
Something I wrote some years ago as a way to show how powerful an Open
Source idea is.
What is this Idea... I think that I can safely call it open community
design by collaborative effort for a common goal.
English is a pretty good example of what happens with an open
source model. (Open source is not a free for all developmentally, it is
a meritocracy, this is just to express the idea of growth by common
cause.) The English language is a common wealth concept, always was...
it just developed over a thousand years of progressive change to be the
worlds most communicative and dominant spoken language with no absolute
owner... It dominates because it works and changes with the
culture that speaks it. Not just the English or American culture but
any culture that uses it, anywhere in the world.
Is English owned? No.
Is English developed in a closed and secret environment with
proprietary tools? No.
Is English controlled by powers from on high that dictate a
license to use it, or is it demanding of fees to use? No.
Is English perfected? It is in perpetual development... by its
users.
Do the people who use English self improve the existence of
English by constantly improving the manor of its use? Yes.
Why? English is used for communication between people in multiple
modes of use, such as verbal, written and it can be transmitted
electronically, Optically and by other means.
Can you make money speaking English? Yes.
Do you have to make money to speak English? No.
Is it a secret to know what the words are and what they mean? No.
Is it a secret to develop new words for English? No
Is English breakable... I mean to say, Is it dependable and
reliable for its intended purpose? Yes.
Why? It is Open Source in order for it to be usefully developed
by those who would like to use it... It is free to use as you wish to
use it.
Why? Because it makes universal communication possible.
It is not breakable? ... Not as long as the source code remains
open to all to see and keep a community check on it in the light of
day, so to speak.
The analog in Computing terms is Open Source
and its largest collective project is this social phenomenon called
Linux
Linux is an Idea made manifest into a way of doing something
tangible and in the light of day. Written in English by the way.
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In memoriam: Dennis Ritchie Died Oct 12-
2011.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (b. September 9, 1941;
found dead October 12, 2011) One of the
creators of Unix Worked for Bell Labs when Unix was created in 1969. At the white
house receiving National Technology Medals. In
memory ofA
BBC tribute
Feb. 4 2012
Linux page for
2012... perpetual change
here, everyday is a new day.
Note:
Most of the pictures on this page are linked to other sites or You Tube videos made by other
people.
They may
relate in some way to the
pictures that I am using for backgrounds or is in some other related
way.
Some do
not relate to
Linux at all, just the picture. Many links set up in the
text.
Celebration of 20 years of
Linux Worldwide -
youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ocq6_3-nEw
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This avatar was made from a frame of film Lord
of the Ring's using the GIMP
as it appears at left, it was never in any film it just looks
like it might have.
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.(More details http://www.patents.com/us-5576844.html
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Picture credit: Todd A. Marks -
Computer/Video Playback Supervisor 
IBM supercomputer means a future Linux Computer.
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One of the
creators of Unix Worked for Bell Labs when Unix was created in 1969.
©2012 Jennifer Crock and Michael Crock 
LLC. 
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Feb. 4 2012
