On Love - Thoughts from others - Harlan Ellison

• August 6, 2007
• James Skemp

Harlan Ellison is one of those authors who not only writes interesting things, but is also quite an interesting character himself (like Chuck Palahniuk, and Philip K. Dick). One of Ellison's major themes is love. He's written a good deal about it, and while I'm doing my research on love, I couldn't exclude Ellison. What follows are quotes from Ellison's pieces that reference that thing called love ... On the night that he actually paid for love, the night he physically reached into his wallet and took out two ten dollar bills and gave them to the girl, the creature took full and final shape.

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If you're not in Google, you're probably dead

• July 29, 2007
• James Skemp

A few weeks ago, I believe, a coworker and I were talking about Google, in particular, how he happens to search for people, he once knew, online. Of course, I don't think I know anyone who hasn't at least done this once (even if that individual they searched for happened to be themselves). The question is, is it true that, if someone can't find a record of you online, that you're dead?

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Ubuntu Quickie: MySQL and PostgreSQL passwords

• June 23, 2007
• James Skemp

Another Ubuntu Quickie, this time on the default passwords for MySQL and PostgreSQL. MySQL mysql -u root UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = OLD_PASSWORD('***password***') WHERE User = 'root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; \q PostgreSQL sudo -u postgres psql template1 ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD '***password***'; \q

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Reference: PostgreSQL 8.2 commands on Ubuntu

• June 23, 2007
• James Skemp

Below are the PostgreSQL 8.2 commands on Ubuntu.

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Ubuntu Quickie: Installing MySQL and PostgreSQL

• June 21, 2007
• James Skemp

For SQL on Ubuntu Linux, I decided it was easiest to just use the repositories to just install MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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Configuring Apache for per-user pages

• June 18, 2007
• James Skemp

In a previous post, I covered installing Apache 2.2.4 on Ubuntu. Unfortunately, if you want to create content for this server, you need to either use the root account, or change the permissions on the /usr/local/apache2/htdocs directory. Let's keep things that way.

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Quickie: Install ColdFusion 7.02 on Ubuntu 7.04 with Apache 2.2.4

• June 15, 2007
• James Skemp

Once again, may not be the best, but installing ColdFusion 7.02 on Ubuntu 7.04 (Apache 2.2.4 already installed).

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Quickie: Install Apache 2.2.4 on Ubuntu

• June 15, 2007
• James Skemp

May not be the best, but ... here's how I installed Apache 2.2.4 on Ubuntu (7.04), based on David Winter's guide Building Apache 2.2 from source for Ubuntu Dapper. All code from a terminal, unless otherwise noted. sudo apt-get install build-essential cd mkdir src cd src I downloaded zlib from http://www.zlib.net/ (zlib source code, version 1.2.3, tar.gz format) into the src folder, and extracted it to the same. cd zlib-1.

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On the Dangers of "Is and Is Not Not"

• June 10, 2007
• James Skemp

Logically speaking, the rule of Double Negation tells us that p :: ~~p. In order words, if something is blue, it is not not blue. Unfortunately, this is one of the rules for sentential logic that is philosophically troubling.

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Review of Andrew Fiala's Practical Pacifism

• May 26, 2007
• James Skemp

This is the review that I wrote for Amazon.com for the book Practical Pacifism by Andrew Fiala.

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