New shoots

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I'm in the middle of a mental roller-coaster ride at the moment - all connected with the USA.

It started with seeing the latest video on the 9/11 incident from architects and engineers: http://www.ae911truth.org/

There's much new information here since I last looked into the topic.

This lead me to two interesting people:

David Ray Griffin: http://davidraygriffin.com/
Peter Dale Scott: http://www.peterdalescott.net/

This in turn led me to:

Alex Jones: http://www.infowars.com/
Jesse Ventura: http://www.jesseventura.net/

Then the occupy wall street movement started, which led me back to:

Michael Moore: http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Mike Ruppert: http://www.collapsenet.com/

From there, I've been led to:

Bill Still: http://www.secretofoz.com/
Charles Eisenstein: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/

I feel like all of these people are opening up a different understanding of the past, and an interpretation of the crisis of capitalism.

Bill Still and Charles Eisenstein, I feel, point the way forward to a new kind of economic order.

So far so Mac

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I'm now experimenting with moving my development environment across to a Mac....

I use X-Windows to access my Linux server and run my favourite editor - Emacs.

This used to be a nightmare on a Mac - but now I've worked out how to fiddle with the keyboard settings (including changing the meta key mappings, and disabling the default "spaces" mappings for Ctrl-Left/Right keys) and things are good.

The Mac picked up my dual monitor setup (with code in a portrait monitor on the right) extremely easily. It's just as good as Xinerama!

I still find the mac a bit "mousey". Perhaps I'll find out all the keyboard shortcuts in time, though.

MacOSX Server

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I've decided to try and put all our group ware stuff onto a MacOSX server.

I don't like the idea of having everything on google. I thought the Mac would give a relatively painless way of replicating their stuff.

I bought a reconditioned mac mini server for this. When it arrived it wouldn't start up - it turned out the date hadn't been set correctly when it was refurbished.

Once that was fixed (Command-S when powering up drops you into a single-user shell) - the set up has been pretty good so far.

I now have a local DNS server and a Mail server that both work better than I've previously achieved by hand-sys-admining a Linux server.

Next tasks are to set up calendars, contacts and home directories.

I like the way the underpinnings are Unix. Things are familiar, and ultimately, configurable in the normal way. However there's also an easy-to-use admin system which makes it much quicker to get simple things done.

So far so good!

An extraordinary archive of interviews with holocaust survivors in 1946

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David Torn website

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Link: http://davidtorn.net/

A very cool website. I like the link "less info"!

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