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      • The Volkmer Effect on Alaska’s Congressional Representation
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      • Where Does Inflation Come From?
      • The Mail-In Ballot Experience
      • The Debt We Owe
      • The Solution to Paying Off Student Debt
      • Student Debt: Are Colleges to Blame?
      • The Problem of Student Debt
      • Fighting Inflation – A Trip to the Grocery Store
      • Ukraine – Poland 1939 All Over Again
      • Broken: Is Public Education Beyond Repair?
      • Transparency and Critical Race Theory
      • The New Wave
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      • Almond Abstract and the Pursuit of Happiness
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      • Tribute to Rush Limbaugh
      • Why Parler?
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      • Fake News Update
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    • Old Friends
      • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
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        • Power and Liberty
        • The Logic of Rebellion
        • A Note On Conspiracy
        • Transformation — From Reaction to Revolution
        • The Contagion of Liberty
      • The Road to Serfdom
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        • The Road Once Traveled
        • Are You A Nazi?
        • Are You A Socialist?
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      • When Does Ten Percent Matter?
      • Federalism — Or Intentional Chaos
      • Faith (Part II)
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    • The Advent Conspiracy
      • What’s Missing
      • Cash Only Please
      • Worship Fully
      • Give More
      • Christmas — It’s a Tide, not a Day
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      • A Play on Words
      • Spam Update — How to Avoid Spam
      • Facebook — A Sickening Feeling
      • Can PayPal Be Trusted?
      • Are You Ready to Rumble?
      • The Alaskan Congressional Rodeo
      • The Gift of Gab
      • Facebook – What Say You?
      • What’s Up with Parler
      • Out of Control? – Security Vulnerabilities in Control Systems
      • The Case of Lorie Smith
      • Facebook — Impersonated Accounts
      • The Case of Josh Renaud
      • SHAKEN, But Not STIRred
      • Can GoDaddy Be Trusted?
      • Ransomware and the Mechanical Pencil
      • Tracking Scams in Phone Messages
      • Disaster Recovery — The Case of Parler
      • CVS Update
      • Why Parler?
      • Computer Vision Syndrome
      • Passwords – the Gremlins of Cyberspace
      • Spam Filtering: Mastering Your E-mail
    • The Facebook Safe Space
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      • Welcome to DOGland
      • Windows 10 and Computer Vision Syndrome
      • Sustainable Printing
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    • Introducing Substack and Locals.Com
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The Tech Community

Behind each endeavor today stands a tech community.

One of the great dividends of an IT career has been the global community that has contributed to software development and support — much of it at no cost.  I participate at various levels with communities described below.

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Linux and UNIX (Red Hat, Suse, and AIX)

I worked in AIX and Linux from 2008 to 2020 on a full time basis.  Linux specialists are self-motivated and uphold the professional standards that improve our knowledge of Linux.  Needless to say, I owe a lot to many.

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Ubuntu (Linux Deskstop)

I started using Ubuntu in 2008.  It must be confessed that the Achilles heel of Linux is its limited appeal as a desktop solution.  For many years the leader in desktop development was Red Hat’s Fedora, which I used for a couple of years with limited success.  It was then I discovered Ubuntu which was probably the first serious effort to develop a desktop operating system that begins to address the needs of the average user as well as a working model for deployment in the business environment.

The amazing fact about Ubuntu is that I have not experienced a learning curve in adjusting to new interfaces, something that Microsoft users had to do moving from Windows 98 to Windows 2000, then Windows Vista, then Windows XP, Windows 7 and lately Windows 10.

Learn more about Ubuntu

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Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird)

Mozilla emerged from the dust of Netscape which was, during the 90’s, one of the leading innovators of the “browser”.   Today, it is still a valued browser, having to contend with other browsers such as Internet Explorer (lately Edge), Chrome and Opera.  It is an opensource program, available to people at no charge. 

A companion of Firefox is Thunderbird e-mail client.  I have used both since they emerged on the scene in 2004.  Thunderbird was substantially more efficient than Outlook Express.  It is also platform independent, so I as I moved from Windows to Linux and then Ubuntu, I never had to re-invent the wheel in regards to my e-mail.  I simply copied the data to the new computer or platform and moved on.

You can learn more about Firefox and Thunderbird by visiting the Mozilla website.

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LibreOffice

How much have you spent on office software since 2000?   I have been a user of OpenOffice since 2000 at no cost!  It was a bit rough around the edges in 2000, but by 2005 it was competitive in almost every degree to what people normally do with office software.  LibreOffice is today a product to seriously consider as a business and enterprise solution.

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