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ask me the best things that america has given to the world i would have to say the notion of a constitution and constitutional law and slowly but surely international law and some genuine concern for human rights even in places that do not contain oil although the mercy and justice of liberation is far swifter in oil bearing nations in order for you to understand my view of things you must in some sense become me and see what i have seen and know what i know after the fashion that i know it this is why i mention cardinal newman s illation in his grammar of conviction which is simply to say that we arrive at our convictions and certainties after years and years of very small experiences and observations which add up to the person that we are if you happen to be say ibn khaldun of 14th century tunisia then that constellation of experiences causes you to see the truth of reality in one way anekantavada is an ancient jain philosophical concept which fits right in with cardinal newman s illation it refers to the principles of pluralism and multiplicity of viewpoints the notion that truth and reality are perceived differently from diverse points of view and that no single point of view is the complete truth so you see i am quite un american to the degree that i see mccain s brand of patriotism as monstrous and i am quite socratic to the degree that i see myself as a citizen of the world and how large was the known world when socrates allegedly said that since the total human population in 400 b c e is estimated to be only 6 million and not todays 6 7 billion one young enthusiastic rather ill educated republican boasted to me on facebook that america is the best because canada could not beat up vermont and canada realizes this and vermont realizes this how tragic that one should view the greatness of one s nation and culture in terms of coercive destructive force yet putin of russia glories in the fact that as a former kgb operative he can still beat people up in a martial arts competition i understand that obama s big sports accomplishment is in basketball so he might out dunk you but he would not dream of kerpluking you you see the pen is mightier than the sword and this we all agree but shall the spoken and written word prove mightier than a marving nuclear warhead this remains to be seen tags carrot and stick foreign policy indonesia islam obama posted in blogging dialogue irc politics religion talk ubuntu leave a comment ubuntu blows me away december 21 2009 ubuntu 9 10 simply blows me away with its speed and elegance and so reasonably priced it took me a total of 50 or 60 hours experimenting first with wubi installs on top of windows and then with a pure ubuntu install on a 280 gig gateway i took detailed notes at my wordpress blog anyone with those notes should be able to install it in 5 hours or less firefox is amazing on ubuntu there is a multi platform instant message program yahoo aim icq msn etc an email client an irc client konverse which lands you in a kubuntu channel with dozens of specialty rooms and hundreds of people on line around the world the only think it cant do yet which i like is paltalk ubuntu updates are far smoother more automated less in your face less annoying than windows updates i tried out ubuntu because i finally had a spare machine i could afford to ruin i felt if i did succeed in installing ubuntu that it would be very primitive and user unfriendly it is very user friendly with lots of gui interfaces you do not have to be some c wizard or know shell and bash commands you can do all that if you know how but you don t need to to use it and you get open office for spreadsheet word processor and presentation manager if more apps become cloud based then you will do everything in your browser and all apps and data will be on some remote server tags linux ubuntu posted in irc mysql php programming shell technology ubuntu wubi leave a comment seeking new friends in social networks december 5 2009 i personally feel that the more friends we add the more we have to gain since we are eavesdropping so to speak on the thoughts and opinions of many diverse people around the nation around the world with gifts differing as paul said how dreary to feel xenophobic and think oneself a very private person and limit oneself to family and friends of childhood s acquaintance it seems to me that you know them well enough and you should be interacting with them face to face or via telephone and not in this particular medium of social networking occasionally i meditate upon the several curious times in plato s dialogues where socrates asserts that misanthropy the contempt for our fellow beings is closely connected with misology a contempt for discourse and this makes a great deal of sense since if you detest the bulk of your fellow beings the with whom pray tell will you converse and if you do not regularly engage in the exercise of extemporaneous dialog then however shall you exercise your mental faculties and be stimulated with new and perhaps innovative ideas or at the very least ideas new to thee miranda dear when i was a senior in high school i needed to collect an enormous number of baby food jars for our biology class where we did a lot of dissection and handed in the organs for grading a young mother of three children would generously supply me with the jars twice a week i was very conscious of the fact that she was starved for adult intellectual stimulation she was glad that i stayed with her and chatted for an hour or two about high school topics i was alway a rather unusual child and adolescent i would discourse much in the same manner as you see me post day to day i preferred the company of adults and especially teachers over children my graduating high school class unbeknownst to me decided that i should be class philosopher and informed me that i should come to have my photo taken at the time i thought it was something of a lark on their point only later in life did it dawn upon me that i really was quite different and quite obsessed with philosophy i still occasionally call my biology teacher now long retired and i mentioned this to him and he said oh yes you were the most philosophical of any class and it was that teacher edward karoll who went out of his way to make me aware of sjc without his encouragement i would never have attended we so often hear use it or lose it and though that is not always in reference to the intellect it is certainly true that our minds need exercise i know one fellow in his 80s who retired and made it a point to do crossword puzzles each day in the belief that such exercise wards off cognitive deterioration i have had the internet each day since 1998 as a medium for expression and i dare say my writing style benefited from this constant exercise i keep meaning to track down and read an essay that sartre wrote on why we write tags dialogue discourse imagination misanthropy misology plato socrates posted in dialogue education forums irc life literature paltalk philosophy politics spirituality talk teaching leave a comment 2nd attempt ubuntu multiple local sites apache2 december 2 2009 note my user name is always bryan because he gave me his old machine with a password on it so i just keep everything the same for convenience step 1 terminal sudo chown bryan var www step 2 having given myself rights with that above chown command i should be able to create folders withing var www e g var www proj1 and then invoke the 1st pg of the application by typing into the browser localhost proj1 report html i shall test this and place the exercises from head first php mysql into a folder var www proj1 and see if the exercise works the only question that remains in my mind is whether the exercise pages will work unchanges honoring var www proj1 as the root or whether i need to issue some other command to make proj1 the default directory or whether i have to hard code paths into all the exercise pages which if i do would kind of defeat the purpose of developing a project in a folder and then transparently moving it to some other location what follows is the raw text from the irc channel where i asked my questions i sorted through it to come up with the above step by step procedure to achieve my goals the steps work and here is my email feedback to the person that gave me the valuable guidance you saved me hours of grief and made it possible for me to now make rapid progress with my head first book and yes i want to pay 60 for the paperback because i want to be able to take it in the bathroom or on the subway i want to really let all this php mysql stuff sink in and become second nature for the simple reason that i am sick and tired of years of bondage to micr0 oft and products like access or worse visual foxpro which they finally dropped as a supported product i figure that php mysql apache is the best choice for me because i can kind of understand whats going on and there is tons of documentation to make it work but forum and irc support like your excellent patient help you are correct that you did tell me what i need to know but you did not realize that as a beginner i cannot recognize the right answer until certain concepts sink in once i did the chown trick you showed me then i could navigate with the gui to var www and create a folder proj1 then i could navigate to my desktop to a folder where i put two of the head first exercises but with the word test inserted in each field so i would know that it was these executing and that i was not somehow executing the same original pages in var www now i could not get desktop testwww report html to run and then correctly post with report php and see the added record in the mysql database with phpmyadmin but as soon as it dawned upon me the simple steps you were saying i copied to cloned files to var www proj1 went to my folder and entered localhost report html actually saw the cloned version come up with test prefixed to each field i entered data prefixed by test so i would see it in the mysql table pressed submit and bingo when i did localhost phpmyadmin and signed in there was the new record in the sql table so you see for a beginner the head first book leaves out a very important concept about creating folders for projects in var www and doing the chown trick once up front to allow access thanks and as you will notice from my blog when i asked the same question in irc last week someone thought that i wanted to do that http www debian administration org articles 412 complex business which was correct if i wanted to access separate projects from some remote client but unnecessary for my simple desktop purposes and here is the raw irc chat to illustrate what a beginner may have to do to sort out the proper answers from a technically savvy person trying to help i am trying to set up several websites on my desktop ubuntu under apache 2 and i have a detailed tutorial but it says i need my ip address but sudo ipconfig gives me an internal and whatismyip com gives me an external any clues as to which is required thanks 04 08 williambuell what ip address where do you want to reach them from the answer as it turns out which i did not make clear to the irc channel is that i only want to make this stuff work from my desktop not from some remote client on the internet which might require some ip address 04 08 thanks i am following this excellent tutorial on apache2 multiple sites http www debian administration org articles 412 04 09 i have ubuntu desktop with lamp installed but can only get php pages to work in var www 04 09 i want to be able to have several projects i e home proj1 04 09 williambuell that s where they should go 04 09 why not put them in var www this turns out to be an excellent question 04 10 the tutorial mentions ip address but does not indicate whether it is external from whatismyip com or local from sudo ifconfig 04 10 because i would need a different name for each html and php page 04 10 williambuell where are you trying to access them from you shouldn t need an ip address at all most likely 04 11 suppose i am following several tutorials with several pages with same name they cannot both be in var www 04 11 why not var www proj1 var www proj2 04 11 and i dont know how to access some search path that would support var www proj1 04 12 or does apache2 lamp automatically honor any folder within www 04 12 yes automatically http localhost folder above is the key concept that i needed 04 12 and if so i am total beginner aha localhost folder seems to make sense to me 04 13 next question in terminal does it matter how i create those folders i mean do i have to be sudo or root 04 13 do permissions matter 04 13 what would the proper command be to create the folder in var www would it be mkdir home www www example com 04 14 with sudo mkdir home www www example com 04 14 except it would be sudo mkdir var www www example com 04 14 if i follow along with this one tutorial 04 15 but that tutorial is talking about multiplenamehost 04 15 williambuell you can cheat and do sudo chown user var www the above is the other key concept that i require and if it works then i can navigate in a gui file folder system and create project folders at will without fussing with sudo permissions 04 15 it sounds like you are saying if i simply create a folder in var www proj1 that it will work from localhost proj1 04 15 williambuell only on a desktop though 04 16 williambuell correct 04 16 i am a 60 year old total beginner so i dont need hints like you can cheat i am truly lost 04 17 so i should say from terminal sudo chown bryan var www but how do i make the folder proj1 04 17 i mean the chown command is changing rights or something 04 17 chown changes the ownership of the file 04 17 nothing else 04 17 williambuell oh one you own the folder you can go into var www and make whatever you want 04 18 in other words from terminal what is the command to correctly creat var www proj1 with all the proper user rights for apache2 to work 04 18 but whenever i go into var www it doesnt let me do stuff i dont think unless i am root admin 04 18 williambuell the support here is not too great might want to try a support channel 04 18 williambuell yeah that s why i suggested owning the folder 04 18 yeah but you guys know this like the back of your hand 04 19 once you do that you can mkdir in var www all you wnat 04 19 and you just cant give a beginner the command to create the folder 04 19 williambuell if we did we would have told you straight away 04 19 so you say create the folder and then use chown to change ownership 04 19 and then everything will be honkey dory ok 04 19 williambuell no chown var www then you can create all the folders you want without sudo 04 21 ok so sudo chown bryan var www gives me the rights then i should be able to navigate with the gui and create proj1 04 21 williambuell yep 04 21 aha now that is making sense to this beginner brain 04 22 and i wont ...