06.25.09
Posted in Social Justice at 1:24 am by beely
The following Arizona Daily Star headline caught my eye yesterday afternoon (6/24/2009). I had not heard anything about these bills before yesterday and I freaked out! Was Arizona going the way of South Dakota and with a one-two-punch, repeat the attempt to require teens get parental permission before they try to get a “prescription” and support pharmacists who want to deny the “morning after” pill because it goes against their religious beliefs? (This last blog article is about Religious Right/American Taliban nutjobs who attempted to support pharmacists in Illinois.)
Here’s a brief run-down of the story and the legislation that has passed in both the Arizona state House and Senate:
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06.23.09
Posted in Buddhism at 11:45 pm by beely
A timeline of sorts about my discovery and connection to Buddhism and the Dharma.
Where do I begin? What attracted me to Buddhism? What drew me to continuing my study of the Dharma? Well, maybe a bit of personal history/background would provide a foundation for more historical info.
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Posted in Buddhism at 11:28 pm by beely
Here are a number of quotes I've collected over the years that I considered "potent" — very significant or simply clarified some finer point of the Dharma.
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Posted in Linux For All at 10:49 pm by beely
I own musical CDs (and who doesn’t?) and I run Ubuntu Linux 8.10 on my laptop. I rip songs from the CDs as MP3s (sorry, not Ogg-Vorbiss because my MP3 player doesn’t support that encoding format) and plan on putting the large numbers of digital copies on a house system to talk directly to my stereo. I’m OK with all of this – works for me quite nicely. So, what’s the beef?
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Posted in Linux For All at 10:37 pm by beely
Get creative! Think of novel ways to incorporate Linux systems into the existing school with Windows-centric technology infrastructure… Here are some strategies/tricks I’ve done to bring in Linux through the back door and onto the campus.
"Be verwy quiet…. huhuhuhuhuhu. " Whoever said that Elmer Fudd wasn't an Open Source strategist! He saw the writing on the wall and now you too can devise a sinister plot to infiltrate the dread world of Redmond, be tricksy, my preciousssss. Here are some strategies I've used so far to bring Linux onto my high school campus:
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Posted in Linux For All at 10:28 pm by beely
So many school districts think that if they aren’t using Microsoft products everywhere, especially on the desktop, that they will be missing out on some type of golden opportunitiy. Opportunities like, Bill Gates is going to give them free software for perpetuity, that some huge conglomerate will recognize their district as deserving of some special accommodation because they have played ball, followed the party line, tasted the fine slop while feeding at the huge Microsoft trough…
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Posted in Linux For All at 10:18 pm by beely
A $100, hand-cranked powered personal computing device (can’t really be called a laptop) that is being developed and promoted by folks at MIT and elsewhere is causing some sleepless nights in the techno centers and headquarters around the U.S. A little PC that is being developed for the technology-starved emerging nations (specifically Africa and the Far East) is causing quite a storm.
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Posted in Linux For All at 10:03 pm by beely
Summer is brutal in Tucson: lots of heat, and when the “monsoon” rain season hits, there’s the high humidity to deal with, it’s murder! Tough working conditions for computers, especially for laptop users: My Dell Inspiron 5150 is my primary machine–a decent desktop replacement that I’ve been pretty happy with, especially using SuSE Linux 10.0.
I’m having an issue with the system: in times of intense, heat-creating activity (running KDE or Gnome and loads of eye-candy and processes running, lots of hard drive activity, processor really cranking, WLAN interface active as primary network connection), I’ve experienced situations where the laptop does a preventative thermal shutdown with the briefest of warnings. I’m thankful that I ‘m not experiencing motherboard melt-down, but it’s very annoying! Why do I continue to use KDE as my primary desktop/window manager when it could be contributing to the problem? Which window manager/desktop system to use on my laptop?
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Posted in Linux For All at 9:44 pm by beely
I've written in a previous article about helping low-income residents with the cast-off technology schools are in the process of upgrading. Here are some ideas on how to introduce Linux to students, parents, and teachers.
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Posted in Environment at 7:01 pm by beely
I recently viewed Vice-President Al Gore’s feature movie version of his PowerPoint-like presentation and book on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth“.
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