Archive for the ‘Simple Explanations’ Category
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Just about all Scientologists would be insulted to be compared to Evangelicals. The same is true for Evangelicals. But does one really make any more sense than the other? This article will attempt to compare the two very different religions and come to the conclusion that they are at least ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
The pipe is the vertical line above your enter key. It looks like this without the quotes: "|". Using the pipe character in the Linux shell allows you to string commands together, performing another command on the output from the first. This is a list of 10 things you can ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
In a world where the price of gasoline is soaring, the cost of electricity is also rising. The demand for clean, cheap electricity is huge. One alternative that is the source of much unwarranted controversy is the nuclear option. While not perfect (due to nuclear waste), nuclear energy provides a ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Since Darwin first published his ideas on the topic, people have been terrified of Evolution. Many of us have found ourselves in an argument with someone who, for whatever reason, doesn't believe in Evolution. Whether they think it threatens their ideas about God, or they just don't know the facts ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
In most context's, if someone says the government is robbing you they are talking about taxes. We hear politicians claiming that they will lower taxes. This article is not about taxes. Taxes are out in the open, and everyone knows exactly how much money is being taken from them. There ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This article is for people who have just began to use Linux, it is not for Linux experts. If you know quite a bit about Linux, you will not find this article useful. It does not fully cover the use of these commands, but gives basic examples. These commands are ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
There are lots of benefits to setting up an old computer as a router, rather than using that tiny linksys. If you want full kernel control over packets, you're not going to get it from an out of the box router (at least not a $50 one on newegg).
Hardware
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Dictionary compression is a method of compression that finds repetitive sets of characters in the plaintext, and replaces them with a shorter identifier, which is defined as being equal to that set. If a set of characters occurs more than once, a multiplier can be added so that only one ...
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