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The Church and Voting

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Published on: October 6, 2012

My Pastor, Pastor Douthwaite of Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church in Vienna, Virginia had the following articular in the latest church news letter, I felt it needed to be spread more, so I sought his approval to re post it here at my blog, please see below. I’m Pastor Douthwaite and I Approved This Message .[…]

Message from LCMS President Harrison about “Religious Liberty: Free to Be Faithful”

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Published on: September 29, 2012

Developing code on an Android Tablet.

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Published on: September 21, 2012

I read an artical in Linux Journal about being able to do development “in the cloud” was an intersting artical, it was very ipad centric, so I set out tonight to see if the same could be done on an Android Tablet. Well the anser I found is yes it can easly be done. And[…]

Netscape said it years ago, and it is coming to pass

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Published on: September 8, 2012

Years ago back in the late 90’s Netscape said that the internet would replace the OS. It has taken almost 2 decades but we are there now. As things move to web apps, the OS is no longer important. I right now type this on a Linux desktop, but I could be doing it on[…]

Black listed *@yahoo.com

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Published on: September 1, 2012

Well to help kill of the spam (and since I have not gotten any real email from any one that uses yahoo’s free email in over a decade, with 1 exception only one, and I put that on the whitelist and that email came in yesterday). I have been getting 3 to 10 spam messages[…]

Slowly reclaiming my email

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Published on: August 27, 2012

I have been working for about a month now to try to reclaim my email. Every time I get spam, I have black listed the domain, I have updated more to my filters, etc, slowly I am gaining my email back, I have gone from 100 spam messages getting thought the spam filter a day[…]

My Twitter feed

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Published on: August 21, 2012

To my friends here that might also be following my Twitter feed, you might be asking what is up with all those stupid posts I been making as of late, well once a day I will pick a “fortune” from the unix program fortune and posted it on my Twitter account. For those of you[…]

Memory in Linux

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Published on: August 19, 2012

I remembered that Linux was good with memory, but this is just more then I expected, I have 8Gb of memory on my tower. I have 3 copies of Eclipse and a copy of Amarok, and many other programs open right now and when I run free I get mpop@home:~$ free total used free shared[…]

A view of the desktop

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Published on: August 19, 2012

This will give you an idea of how things are setup on on the physical screens, the prior screen shot shows the pager nearly in the middle of the screen but when you look at this picture you can see it is on the right hand side of one of the screens.

A screen shot of my towers dual monitor Slackware/FVWM setup

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Published on: August 19, 2012

What a day

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Published on: August 19, 2012

Just a bit of posting, today I spent the AM sleeping in, something I don’t get to do, I had to move my music lesson to a later time so I could sleep in. Then when I got home I did more work on my Linux Laptop to get FVWM to look the way I[…]

FVWM is starting to look how I want it to look.

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Published on: August 18, 2012

Thanks to thomas_adam in the FVWM chat room on the FREE NODE irc network, I have gotten FVWM much closer to looking the way I want it to look. See the Screen Shot below. If you want to mess with my config file for FVWM (but as Thomas said it has alot of FVWM 1.x[…]

Slackware and FVWM

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Published on: August 13, 2012

I am resetting up my Linux systems, and I am going back to my roots in Linux going back to Slackware and will be using FVWM for my windows manager, I already know how I am going to set it up. I am going to do a 4×4 pager with the pager in the upper[…]

Cleaning up a lot of my social network sites

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Published on: August 10, 2012

Well I have started to clean up my LinkedIn account might take a few days, deleted a bunch of “contacts” in there, last night I cleaned up my Delicious account. Going to try go get all the social network stuff I have going organized correctly. Also I am not going to be one of those[…]

Some updating of my site and others

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Published on: August 10, 2012

Not much, the “biggest” part of the update is linking to my FB profile, my G+ profile, and linking in my tweets from Twitter. Also I dug up my old Delicious account and cleaned up the links in it a bit, going to start using it again. Next on my task list for internet todo[…]

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