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In a previous post, we discussed how to manually set up a Linux system that restores itself on every reboot, just like Faronics Deep Freeze. Today, let’s take it one step further: we’ll customize an Ubuntu ISO so that: It boots directly into a self-healing system, It automatically sets up writable storage on a flash…

Gravity Forms for Word Press  is pretty awesome, especially with integration with Stripe for selling things. The only problem I’ve run into is when I have a thing with a limited quantity and it sells out. There’s a great snippet if you want to install some extra php. Best practices would be to use the…

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Set aside the point that taxation is theft. In Chatanooga Tennessee, the city government, through their power utility, brought speeds up to 10 gigs per second internet to every house and business in Chatanooga. And they charged for it. 1 gig/sec is $70/month

(and you’re helping to spread it!) If you are talking about the popular vote as something real, you are helping to spread fake news. I’m not a Trump supporter. I’m not trying to justify the electoral college. I don’t dispute that if if you add up all the votes cast for all 18 candidates on…

My wife was working on her windows based PC when suddenly it started making what she described as a weird beeping.  She shut it down and tried to restart, but the beeping was constant at boot, so she powered it off and left it for me. Having recently tinkered with this PC (added an SSD…

The original text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. My reading: There are two sets of citizens discussed in the Second Amendment. One group is the set of ALL citizens, named “the People.” The…

Like most people I leave my browsers download folder to the default “Downloads” on Windows 10. I have on occasion had an issue where I download something and then want to upload it somewhere else right away, but when I browse to my Downloads folder Windows Explorer does not show me the contents of the…

The President has declared October as Cybersecurity month.  It’s not a bad idea — just like you change the batteries in your smoke detectors once a year, maybe you should review your electronic vulbnerabilities? My top ten security tips: 1) Change your passwords.  You’ve had them too long, you use the same password in too…

The other day I was opening a packet of ketchup and on one side it said “open here.”  I said aloud “You’re not the boss of me!” and opened the packet from the other end, which worked just fine. It is not in me to submit to authority.  I will HAPPILY put my shoulder to…

Today is Juneteenth, and on the heels of a racially motivated massacre, we are forced to ask ourselves once again — when can we end this violence?  When shall we know peace with our brothers?  When will we achieve the dream that we all judge each other by the content of our character?  How can…

My friend Chuck Hobbs, a frequent and eloquent writer to places like The Hill posted a photo on facebook which included a naked breast to make a point.  Facebook responded by suspending his account and silencing an eloquent voice. In particular Mr Hobbs is a voice of reason regarding the state of race relations in our…

When something is free, it has no value and people treat it as such. When I worked at a great hospital in Boston, we used to offer free printing to everyone in our small division — 1000 people were generating printing costs of $100,000 per year.So we put a program in place so that when…

I attended the Massachusetts Libertarian Party state committee meeting last Saturday, and as always I left thinking:  “I know I’m being paranoid, but am I being paranoid enough?” To that end, I have generated a new 4096 bit public key.  Scroll down further for my 2048 key. If you want to know how to use…

Regarding deflate-gate Amounton’s Law says “The pressure of a gas of fixed mass and fixed volume is directly proportional to the gas’s absolute temperature.” So P/T = Constant For comparing the same substance under two different sets of conditions, the law can be written as: P1/T1 = P2/T2 I’m also going to do this in…

When people talk about having standards, it’s with the shared assumption that standards are a “good thing.”  When we talk about minimum standard for something, we’re talking about a baseline, below which is considered unacceptable.  When we use the phrase  “a standard of excellence” we associate the word standard with an ideal that we should…

In the 6th Essex race the Salem News editorialized: “… Parisella has certainly earned another two-year term…”  Apparently the editors have not been reading the excellent reporting of Paul Leighton who detailed the conflict of interest complaint filed against Parisella and his subsequent quitting of his job. And though that weighs on my mind, I’m…

This is a public request for Charlie Baker or Martha Coakley to show real leadership by stepping up and demanding that

I’m proud of Massachusetts today. Last night on the debate on WBZ all 5 candidates for governor were featured, including 3 in depende

I’ve used the login name “fishdan” since 1996 — I own it about everywhere it’s worth having.  Because I’m old, my primary usage is via yahoo, but I’m also fishdan@gmail, It’s my primary interface to all things google, including my google+ account and the account I sync my android phone with. Because I’m a good…