Dyne:bolic (excerpt from preface to manual)

July 13th, 2008 Dubian Posted in Free thought grab bag, Random thoughts 7 Comments »

I reprint here an excerpt from the preface of the manual to a Dyne:bolic, a flavour if you will of GNU/Linux, a free operating system. Some other operating systems you might know, if the term seems obcsure and doesn’t say much, are Windows XP and Vista as well as Mac’s OSX

Jaromil is the founder of the Dyne:bolic distribution and this is Jaromil’s message, divulging the roots of his beliefs concerning freedom and why each person who uses free software is winning a victory in the war to emancipate themselves from slavery.

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Spiral Tribe Interview (no no not us…reprint!)

July 11th, 2008 Dubian Posted in Free thought grab bag, Random thoughts 6 Comments »

Spiral Tribe

(spotted on Ejercicios de perceptcion)

Since Castle Morton and the Canary Wharf rave SPIRAL TRIBE have occupied quite a space on/in mass media air time/publications. They suddenly seem to be regarded by the mainstream media as spokespeople for the multi-layered festival scene….

Spiral Tribe and their rave sound system are in fact quite a new addition to the ever evolving festival scene. We met three members of Spiral Tribe who, at the time, were lying low in London having had their buses/homes and sound systems Impounded by the authorities. After a number of phone calls we were told to go to a street, we were given no actual address, when we got there suddenly two people emegred from a van “Are you The Organs?” Yeah we answered and off we went to a ‘borrowed’ house for a chat. No names were mentioned, no identities, so we talked to number 1, 2 and Read the rest of this entry »

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Who does control your data?

June 30th, 2008 Dubian Posted in Free thought grab bag, Random thoughts 7 Comments »

©Hugh Macleod (gapingvoid.com)

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Born to be Root

June 16th, 2008 Dubian Posted in Free thought grab bag, Random thoughts 3 Comments »

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To beat or not to beat, that is the question

June 13th, 2008 connectionist Posted in Free thought grab bag, Random thoughts 13 Comments »

I just read an article on Yahoo News entitled “Schools urged to teach children about domestic violence” and my jaw dropped when I read that:

“… two women are killed every week in Britain by their husbands, boyfriends or former partners.” !!!!!!!

I guess that’s the true meaning of “Love hurts” …

You can read the article here. As for me I think I’ll stay single for a while!

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