2019 archive
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (August 1, 2019). Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
I shot a bullet into the air.
It fell to earth I know not where.
I’m a “responsible gun owner”; I do not care.
I shot a bullet into the air.
One Note Samba 0
Kimberley A. Johnson sums it up.
Misdirection Play? Twits on Twitter Dept. 0
David suggests that focusing on Trump’s tweets, such as the recent tirade about Baltimore and Rep. Elijah Cummings, awful as they are, serves to distract from the concrete damage Trump and his lackeys are doing to governance and the polity. Methinks his argument is worth a listen.
His Fleeting Moment of Defame 0
Judge kicks the Little Smirk’s defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post to the curb because there was no there there.
Mean for the Sake of Mean 0
Will Bunch suggests that, as regards the Trump administration’s revival of the death penalty for Federal prisoners, that
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Deprogramming 0
Shaun Mullen solicits suggestions for coping with Trump’s cultists, as America’s original sin of racism threatens to swamp the polity. He argues that the descent in to deplorability is unprecedented even in the darkest periods of our history.
Here’s a bit from his post.
The here-and-now is so different, the rot in America so great and the stench in Washington so overpowering, that the logical alternative to the criminal investigation on which Democrats pretty much bet the post-Blue Wave ranch was a national investigative commission not unlike those empaneled after 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. Gather facts and then bring criminal charges based on those facts.
You cannot argue with those who will not listen. Reasoned debate is not the answer. Unified resistance is, but too many Democrats seem to be lacking spines.
Heck, I think many of today’s Democrats would fear to read aloud even one of Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign speeches.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Inculcate politeness into your progeny at an early age.
Family told police they heard a gunshot from another room and found their child with a gun, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted Sunday night. The Department of Children and Family Services “has also been called in to assist,” he said.
The NRA will no doubt argue that, had the boy been armed, this no doubt would not have happ–oh, wait.
Hey! Rubio! 0
Little Marco joins in a right-wing smear campaign based on deception. Sam dissects the deception.
Geeking Out 0
Windows 8 in a VirtualBox virtual machine on Ubuntu MATE with the Plasma Desktop.
Afterthought:
Yes, I know the Windows taskbar is at the bottom of the screen by default. Did you know that you can reposition it? I find putting the taskbar (or, in Linux-speak, the panel) at the top fits my workflow.
Determined To Disenfranchise 0
Sue Carlton tells a story of Florida’s persistent practices to prevent public participation in the polity.