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HOWTO: disable IPv6 networking in Debian

Tonight I did ran netstat (`netstat -plunt`) on my Debian server and saw that I had some ports listening via IPv6.  It’s a shame IPv6 hasn’t caught on as it’s better than IPv4 in virtually every way, and it should, especially since TCP/IPv4 was standardized in ARPANET RFC’s… in 1981!  Also, IPv6 provides network read more..

Black Friday: deals cause total carnage

When I was younger I worked retail, and I remember dreading the holiday season; we’d be completely busy, and customers were never ruder.  I’ve seen ads poking fun at rabid crowds trying to break down doors before stores open to get the latest deals around the holidays, and it’s always some comment about how the read more..

Olbermann’s commentary on Prop 8

The fact that Proposition 8 passed this last week in Califonia is a sad commentary on people’s morays and the discrimination that they still think is ok to pass on to others.  Of course the statistic that African Americans (whose strong turnout is being attributed to Obama) voting 2 to 1 *for* the measure is read more..

HOWTO: install Ruby on Rails on Debian or Ubuntu Linux easily

In the early days of this blog I used to run it on Typo, which *was* a great Ruby on Rails blogging platform (at one time).  Unfortunately the project stalled (for years) and I ended up jumping ship after a few months of bugs and the ever crashing Rails server, WEBrick.  Yes, if you search read more..

Equal Rights for All

Here’s a great, recent News of the Weird article,”Roy Hollander filed a civil rights lawsuit against Columbia University in New York City in August, claiming that its “women’s studies” curriculum teaches a religion-like philosophy that oppresses men by blaming them for nearly all social problems. (When interviewed by the New York Daily News, Hollander declined read more..

Wassup 2008

File under: it’s funny cause it’s true. I mean, tru, tru. Tags: 2008, ad, wassup, wassup 2008 Related posts No related posts.

A rural county pining for a racist past

With all the polls it feels like there’s been a sea change in how America sees race, or maybe not. Maybe it’s W’s 22% approval rating skewing the numbers, because there are obvious still some serious misconceptions and racism playing big in the election. Interviews in the ‘bootheal’ region of Missouri (only a few read more..

Army: Twitter could be a terrorist tool

Hmmm…so the Army has claimed that terrorists may be ‘tweeting’ along to plan and organize attacks. Well yeah, I guess they could use Gmail, Slashdot comments and other things the same way, it seems their claim is that since this is more ‘real time’ it could be a danger. Ok, oh, and they read more..

Distributing biodiversity data globally

My current project at work will take me far into next year, and that’s good because I’m facing an unprecedented amount of data, that will only continue to grow.  Because of this I’m finally getting to put my money where my mouth is.  For years I’ve talked about my ideas and theories about how I read more..

How to become a hacker

There has long been a movement in the geek community to expunge the negative thoughts attached to the word hacker, the image to the right The Glider, being one of the latest and most visible. In the beginning there were hackers (people who worked on computers, programmed and made things work) and crackers (people read more..