jra I’m a big Jonathan Edwards admirer and one of his most practical works for Christians is his Resolutions that he made a point of reading every week. In Resolution #30 he states, “Resolved, to strive to my utmost every week to be brought higher in religion, and to a higher exercise of grace, than I … Read more
I had purchased an uberiffic desktop PC from System76 a few months ago and set it up with a static IP address along with a dynamic DNS name to access from the Internet. Prior to upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 it had worked flawlessly. After upgrading, all of sudden DNS look ups failed. I searched all … Read more
Ran across The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes and decided to make a Kindle version available.
Firewall Builder is a GUI application that allows you to create sophisticated firewall rules. Currently only version 4 is available in the Ubuntu repositories, so here is how to install version 5 in Ubuntu: 1. From a Terminal window type: wget http://www.fwbuilder.org/PACKAGE-GPG-KEY-fwbuilder.asc -0- | sudo apt-key add – 2. Add the line deb http://packages.fwbuilder.org/deb/stable/ VersionName … Read more
I was actually browsing through the Freedombox site to look at the project and when I clicked on one of the links to the Linux Foundation I received the breach notification that now reads (Condensed Version): “Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that … Read more
Here is Justin’s top 5 UNIX security books. Title Author ISBN Practical UNIX and Internet Security Garfinkel and Spafford 1-56592-148-8 UNIX System Security David Curry 0-201-60640-2 The UNIX Programming Environment Kernighan and Pike 0-13-937681-X UNIX & Linux System Administration Handbook Nemeth et al 0-13-151051-7 Building Internet Firewalls O’Reilly and Assoc 1-56592-124-0
I recently ran across a post browsing through my “Calvinism” sparks links in Google + and ran across this excerpt that was reply by a person, named David. David, I am choosing to address your comment, not because I strive to change your mind, but for the sake of other readers who have ears to … Read more
In this weeks segment on Emacs wizardry let’s learn some of the basic cursor movements so you can move around your Emacs buffer faster than the speed of light. Keystrokes Command Name Action C-f forward-char Move forward one character(right). C-b backward-char Move backward one character(left). C-p previous-line Move to previous line(up). C-n next-line Move to … Read more
Here is a very simple search for finding Kindle books with a Google query: intitle:index.of (mobi | epub | plucker)
As much as I love the Kindle that I received this past Christmas, there are certain things that I have found wanting. Recently one of my Facebook friends asked me what books I had on my Kindle. I thought, “This should be a no brainer, I’ll just export the list from the http://kindle.amazon.com as a … Read more