Somehow the permissions on my Windows home directory got messed up so I decided to write a script to fix them.  I am not 100% sure if these are the correct permissions or not.  I used another Windows machine as a reference but my investigation into what the default permissions are supposed to be was…

Just set up the latest Lubuntu 17.10 on an older Thinkpad X301 laptop that I keep as a backup system and wow!  Lubuntu is really excellent!  Even though this Thinkpad is pretty old Lubuntu runs great on it. Lubunutu has a great interface that is very user-friendly. I highly recommend it if you want a…

Found an interesting article today about the background on Arizona’s decision to opt out of the Uniform Time Act in 1968. As I’ve written over the past months, I am really loving the fact that I did not change my clocks from Daylight Savings Time back in November. I have been able to keep my…

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At this end of 2017 the situation for humanity on Earth is grim. Over past decades again and again humanity has witnessed one sad turning point after another as humanity continues its plummet towards catastrophe. Many of these turning points are ecological, biological, or environmental in nature as species die off, habitats disappear, environments are…

This is a backup script I created in Python which uses the eminent rsync utility to perform the actual backup operation.  This script addresses a few things that are lacking from rsync’s options that I really want: One is the ability to specify in one single config file which paths (directories and/or files) to backup…

The early generals, ranchers, and governors of California were Spanish. During that time there were indigenous tribes of native Americans living in California. But California was never Mexican. Yes California was a territory under Mexico, but Mexico was a Spanish territory and the people who controlled it were Spanish. They were not “Mexican”. These guys…

US-Mexico border bridegroom smuggled heroin A US man who wed his Mexican fiancée at the border with Mexico last month turned out to be a convicted heroin smuggler, local media report. Background checks failed to reveal Brian Houston was awaiting sentencing in San Diego at the time, and the US Border Patrol approved the event.…

These instructions work for Ubuntu 16.04, possibly with other distros as well. My goal was to set up a CentOS virtual machine for learning purposes. Install LXD via snap These commands must be run as superuser/root: apt install snapd snap install lxd snap start lxd lxd init Answer the questions. Default answers should work fine…

Install Cygwin Open an cmd terminal as administrator, then: cd .. mkdir cygwin64 Open a web browser to cygwin.com and download setup-x86_64.exe to the C:\cygwin64 directory. Back in the cmd terminal, copy this: setup-x86_64.exe -P alternatives,astyle,bind-utils,binutils,chere,cmake,cygutils-extra,dos2unix,fetchmail,file,findutils,gcc-g++,getmail,hostname,httpd,httpd-mod_php7,ImageMagick,inetutils,inetutils-server,ipcalc,libapr1-devel,libaprutil1-devel,lynx,make,mutt,mysql,mysql-server,nc,ncftp,net-snmp-utils,openssh,perl,php,php-pdo-mysql,php-pdo-sqlite,php-sqlite3,procmail,procps,procps-ng,pwgen,python,python3,rsync,run,screen,sed,socat,source-highlight,sqlite3,ssmtp,syslog-ng,tar,units,unzip,usbutils,util-linux,vim,wget,which,whois,xz,zip and press enter. Change the Cygwin home directory to your Windows home directory Once the install completes open a…