Fedora Instrastructure Compromised
The Fedora Infrastructure was recently compromised. Hopefully they secured the systems using the CIS Redhat Linux hardening guide.
Installing Nmap from SVN on Ubuntu 10.10
If you are an Ubuntu user and simply cannot wait to get the latest nmap features, follow the procedure below. Throw this into a file and call it, ‘build_nmap’ and copy it to the /etc/cron.daily directory and you will have a daily build of the latest and greatest version of nmap. P.S. The same procedure … Read more
The Genius of Puritanism
The Genius of Puritanism by Peter Lewis My rating: 3 of 5 stars Thought this was an excellent summary of Puritan thought and how necessary it is for the church never to forget the tokens of grace that they have left for us. I particularly enjoyed the focus on Christian depression and the remedies that … Read more
Thoughts on Van Til: Scripture & Philosophy
From Van Til’s “The Defense of the Faith”: “But to engage in philosophical discussion does not mean that we begin without scripture. We do not first defend theism philosophically by an appeal to reason and experience in order, after that, to turn to scripture for our knowledge and defense of Christianity. We get our theism … Read more
The Doctrine of Repentance Book Review
The Doctrine Of Repentance by Thomas Watson My rating: 4 of 5 stars As is the case with most of Thomas Watson’s books, the exegesis of scripture is superb and the practical advise that he offers is timeless. This book really hits home by expounding that for the Christian repentance is a continual process and … Read more
Blackbox Engineering & Ordo Salutis
I think any rationale person would agree that in order to understand anything you need an adequate of the thing being discussed. For our purposes we will be referencing “thing” as a system. Our model will be simple. We will create a system that simply adds two integer values together and outputs the sum of … Read more
How to move window buttons back to right in Ubuntu 10.X
As the Ubuntu’s new tag line says “It’s time for a change.”, indeed a lot of change has been implemented to the operating system, applications and the interface. There are few which you will find it interesting and useful and while few others might annoy you because of a sudden change. I never liked Ubuntu … Read more
Installing Emacs on Ubuntu 10.04 from Source
Here is how you can compile the mother of all editors on Ubuntu 10.04 from source: 1. Obtain the source archive for Emacs from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ 2. Open a Terminal in Ubuntu and type: A. sudo apt-get install build-essential libxpm-dev libgif-dev libtiff4-dev B. This will install the necessary packages to compile Emacs. 3. Extract the Emacs … Read more
US-CERT Has More Holes Than Swiss Cheese
This just in….US-CERT found to have plethora of security holes in their network. End of the world predicted in a matter of days.
Review of Always Ready
Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith by Greg L. Bahnsen My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a most excellent book as to how the Christian should be ready to defend the faith and I think it’s the only way to expose the “intellectual schizophrenia” that is within every non-Christian and that is … Read more