ssh tunneling for mail
ssh -N -p 22 -c 3des username@example.com -L 10025/localhost/25 This opens up a ssh tunnel which routes all mail sent to port 10025 on my local machine to port 25 on Dreamhost’s server. You can make this process seamless by (1) generating a SSH key pair [ssh-keygen -t dsa] with no password (just hit return) […]
Read MoreGodwin's Law
Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. (source, Mike Godwin via google.)
Read MoreHanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Read MoreWhat is "Thayer's Method"?
Thayer’s is the teaching method and style used at west point. The students do the work before class, prepare well the night before, then arrive and ask questions about the work done and the work they are preparing to do.
Read MoreThomas Theorum
If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
Read MoreAlpha and Beta testing
Over the years I’ve been an alpha or beta testor on a myriad of computer games. Meridan 59 Asheron’s Call 1 Anarchy Online Civilization for Linux by Lokigames WoW (open beta) and some software pointcast college network zend studio (open beta) php4 (open beta)
Read MorePolyvalent creativity
def: Polyvalent creativity is a form of creativity in which the processual nature of creativity is participated in by many subjects who are co-constituting the experience of creativity across and between different levels of knowing, creating, learning, and understanding. Specifically for my work, it is the form of creativity where the process causes people to […]
Read MoreParrhesiatic machines
Def: Machines that speak to truth
Read MoreLonger 10 Modes of Skepticism
(i) the opposing perceptions and views of the world which characterize different species: “For how could one say, with regard to touch [for example], that animals are similarly affected whether their surfaces consist of shell, flesh, needles, feathers or scales? And, as regards hearing, how could one say that perceptions are alike in animals with […]
Read MoreQuotes about the 10 modes of skepticism
When people search for something, the likely outcome is that either they find it or, not finding it, they accept that it cannot be found, or they continue to search. So also in the case of what is sought in philosophy, I think, some people have claimed to have found the truth, others have asserted […]
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