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Humanity Lobotomy – The Importance of Net Neutrality

In the early days, radio used to be a two-way communication system. Radio communication played a part in social, religious and political dialogs between people. Later, big corporations like NBC and CBS produced 97% of nighttime broadcasting in the United States; all courtesy of the Federal Communications Commission. We cannot let them do the same to the internet. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on March 07, 2008, at 13:03 | Comments closed

Hi, My name is Witchbane and I like witches

2017-12-30: The below post was my first post on www.worldwide-wilderness.com, a project I abandoned in the form it was then intended to take: a series of blog posts and hopefully videos to enthusias young people about wilderness. Here, for posterity's sake… Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on February 26, 2008, at 17:02 | Comments closed

Push the limits

Besides making good music, Enigma also writes meaningful lyrics. A quote from "Push the Limits", from the album "The Screen Behind the Mirror", by Enigma: Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on February 13, 2008, at 14:02 | Comments closed

Ron Paul: Going the Distance

Here I am again with a message about Ron Paul. He asks not to give up, even though election victories are already practically claimed, prematurely of course. He also wants to organize a march to Washington D.C., to give the media something they can't ignore, like they usually do. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on February 13, 2008, at 01:02 | Comments closed

Wilderness

2018-01-03. The below was originally published by Myrna on www.worldwide-wilderness.com. I copied it here while discontinuing that site in its current form. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on January 15, 2008, at 07:01 | Comments closed

Moved from Mnemosyne to FlashcardDB

When I was studying Spanish last year, I had to choose a flashcard program to memorize new words. At the time, I couldn't find any on-line program that just did the job and did it well. In a comment on my blog post from last year, however, I was pointed by Jeff to his amazing FlashcardDB. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on January 14, 2008, at 23:01 | 3 comments

Rolling back a failed rdiff-backup session on a full partition

For those of you who use rdiff-backup, you may have run into the situation where the partition you're backing up to has no more space available. This is a very annoying situation, because rdiff-backup needs space to be able to roll back the session, so you're kind of stuck. You might think: "doesn't a decent file system have a reserved amount of space for the super user?" Yes, decent file systems do, but you'll often be running rdiff-backup as root, so that won't do any good. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on January 13, 2008, at 13:01 | 1 comment

Getting your terminal unstuck

Have you ever had your terminal freezing on you for a reason you can't identify? Fret no more, because this post will save your future login session. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on January 13, 2008, at 13:01 | Comments closed

Upgraded WordPress from 2.1 to 2.3.1

I'm now on WordPress 2.3.1. It was about time too; I was still on 2.1. Importing the tags from Ultimate Tag Warrior worked fine. Before upgrading and importing, I quickly patched my local version of WP with a little help from Subversion: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on November 26, 2007, at 00:11 | Comments closed

BigSmoke.US is no longer mine

Since my three previous posts [1, 2, 3], I've made over 7 phone calls to the US, alternating between Wild West Domains and NeuStar. And it turned out that, no, I'm not allowed to have a dot-US domain. So I gave it away. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on August 10, 2007, at 16:08 | Comments closed