Harmon Wood

Life in a Bourne Again Shell

NEW Orbit just brushed clean feeling gum is Accepted by the American Dental Association.

"The ADA Council on Scientific Affairs' Acceptance of Orbit is based on its finding that the physical action of chewing Orbit suger-free gum for 20 minutes after eating, stimulates saliva flow, which helps to prevent cavities by reducing plaque acids and strengthening teeth."

Let me get this straight. Orbit gum is good for my teeth because of the act of chewing. There is nothing in the gum itself that is special... at all. I love marketing :)

How we often meet our destiny on our way to avoiding it.

Science is a way of giving a written and applicable description to the physical universe. This description is always changing. No matter how often science is presented as fact, it has and will always be theory. The quest for knowledge comes at a price. The price of understanding that the more you know, the more there is to know. The further down the path of exponentially increasing questions, there will always be a point when the first set of answers are found to be incomplete or only correct under certain conditions. There are no "Laws" of physics. Only highly scrutinized theories, just waiting to be adjusted to match the ever expanding known universe.

Governments, media, companies, you and I, all have agendas. These agendas are accomplished by taking knowledge and shedding just the correct light on it to make it look good for that agenda. The facts related to the global climate crisis are few. For the last sixty years there are carefully recorded temperatures around the world. Anything far two-hundred years before that is spotty or hear say and before that requires science. All current theories pertaining to temperatures not rerecorded by a thermometric device, involve incalculable environmental variants, in-consistent numbers, and large divergences in results. This results in the current need for various number tricks and trend hiding in an attempt to normalize the data. When reality sets in and speculation, conjecture and excitement settle down. A realization that all the raw data is, at most, an agreed best guess, sets in. The normalized results are now nothing more then the light shed by deferent individuals and organizations to fit an agenda, good, bad or neutral. 

Could the impending climate change be caused by humans? Sure, that is a possibility. Could the impending climate change be a natural effect? That, could also be true. But has humans we all have a choice. How and where to live for example. Living on the Big Island of Hawaii after march of 2008 near Kilauea's new sulfur dioxide vent, would not be good for ones health. Neither would living in south east Houston Texas, near the cement plants. Big oil companies are not going to let there business model fail because there is no more oil to be had. Alternative energies will be had and created when the time comes. Until then all regulation will do is cause the companies and their consumers to spend just enough extra money to fulfill the requirements and not get anywhere except deeper into a poor economy. There are other more important choices to be made. Where should I live for my health? What is ethanol really doing to my engine? What happens to batteries when they are discarded? Even if the global climate change is natural or man made. Is there any evidence that humans can reverse the damage already done? Is it not possible, that humans could even make it worse in an attempt to stop climate change, with no real evidence of why or even if it is happening?

_{It is interesting however, that the most reliable scientific theories and several Biblical references imply that the earth has been destroyed and will be destroyed again by opposing thermal events :)}

I would like to be the first to say my new word publicly.

Augmentorial

An augmentorial is a tutarial provided through an augmented reality divice.

Seariosly people this is the future, you could watch someone else fix your car like a ghost as you fix the car for real. Or better yet, you could think of it as tracing for anything you do in the real world.

Most well written web sites these days have most of there images loaded through css. However, wget-1.11 will not get these files in mirror mode. So the salution is to install the develpmental version of wget-1.12.

wget http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/archive/tip.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf tip.tar.bz2

This will unpack a directory called mainline-[revision number] mine was mainline-fdff988927d9.

Next cd into that directory and start the build process.

cd mainline-[revision number]
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

For me the install did not work correctly.

So, did a little tweeking by hand.

First I found the location of my current wget

which wget

this returned

/usr/local/bin/wget

so I moved it

sudo mv /usr/local/bin/wget /usr/local/bin/wget-1.11

Then I moved the new wget 1.12-devel to the old wget location.

sudo cp src/wget /usr/local/bin/wget

Now we are all set lets mirror a site.

first off some sites have a robot.txt file the prohibits these types of downloads. So, lets fix this by creating a .wgetrc file.

~/.wgetrc

robots = off

Now lets mirror a site:

wget -mk -P ./mirror-of-example www.example.com

Done!