Rants about Linux, technology, data, and science
Australians who embraced the “solar revolution” with relish are faced with aging and damaged solar voltaic panels. When those panels are no longer serviceable, they go to the landfill. Now the Aussie’s are fretting on what to do with the mass of waste. The end state of “green” technology is rarely considered. Nor are the Read More …
An interesting problem – a researcher had a pile of tif files she wanted to batch convert to jpg/jpeg. In the Linux world we use ImageMagick, which is available for Windows, but the Windows command line environment can’t hold a candle to bash. Here’s the solution: Download ImageMagick for Windows and install Place your tif Read More …
Ars Technica reports that a University of California San Diego (UCSD) study of the use of residential batteries actually results in an increase in air emissions – and that’s for cases where homeowners are “economically rational and trying to minimize costs”. If homeowners were to operate their battery systems in a way that reduced emissions, Read More …
The cool kids with PhD’s over at The Trouble have a prescription for solving “Climate Change” – Thermal Nuclear War. Seriously, read it and weep. By the way, the tagline used by “The Trouble” is: AT THE HEART OF CLIMATE CHANGE IS POLITICS. Yes, politics are still ruining science.
Just watch it, no comment required. Remember, these are the same people who make policy that effects the lives of millions of Americans. Oh yeah, politics are still ruining science.
Carlson hits it out of the park. They don’t care about you – it’s all about what’s in it for them.
Short and sweet – the prudent will heed the advice on the little board below. Call them the “5 Commandments of Survival”. Depend on no one other than yourself and those closest to you.
“We have been taught since childhood that fighting solves nothing, but is this really true?” “Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Read More …
You’d like to create a “clean” list of installed packages on your Linux server. Perhaps you’d like to ensure that your base O/S image is consistent across several machines. Here’s an easy recipe to do that. First, login to the machine you want to use as your “golden image”, and run the command: yum list Read More …
The following bash script can be used to detect the number of http/https connections for each unique IP address. Uncomment the line for “iptables” to automatically block any IP exceeding the desired value (10 in this example) in the system firewall (Linux only). A quick and dirty way to block unwanted request hits against your Read More …