This is directed towards Mark Pilgrim’s recent move away from Apple (just scratch out “Windows©” and put “Linux”):
Archive for June, 2006
Now that school is over and my wife is no longer dying (which, as it happens, seems to be a recurring thing that she gets sick right when the quarter ends), i have a bunch of chores to do around the house and find a job. As such, i won’t be back to posting until sometime next week. When i do, i’ll be returning to the series on epistemology. In the meantime, i posted my paper on Nietzsche in the downloads section. It’s only 11 pages double-spaced, but it got me an “A” for my independent study.
No Tags- Read for Nietzsche Study:
Twilight of the Idols, NietzscheTotal Presence, Thomas AltizerNietzsche & Christianity, Karl JaspersNietzsche, Heidegger (selections)Kierkegaard & Nietzsche, J. Kellenberger
- Read for Fundamentalism
Islamic Fundamentalism Since 1945, Beverley Milton-Edwards
- Fun Reading
Apology, PlatoPhaedo, PlatoCratylus, PlatoParmenides, PlatoTimaeus, Plato- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Hume
- Misc. Reading
- Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
On Certainty, WittgensteinPrimer on Postmodernism, Stan Grenz- Eldest, Christopher Paolini
It looks like i’m finishing up everything….Finishing last paper (the one on Nietzsche) and ready to have it over.
No TagsWho’d thunk it? Kierkegaard and Barth! (Luther too)
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You scored as Fideist. You are a fideist! You love to read Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Luther, and Karl Barth. Knowing God is a personal thing, so you believe that the best case for Christianity is made on a subjective level.
What kind of apologist are you? |
After doing some research, i think i’m completely ditching Windows for my computer. The one thing that was keeping me back was the ability to play my games (AoE, C&C, Myst, Starcraft, etc) because they are Windows-based. Well, i found out about WinE today. i’ve checked on all of my games and people have had success with each of them. Now, all i need to do is get the printer accessible through Samba for my wife’s Windows laptop and i’ll be a free man. Aside from that, i will do a clean install of my system once i’ve gotten everything from the Windows side of things and go with an as-minimal-as-possible system. i think i’ll have both Gnome and KDE installed, even though i’m preferential to KDE. So much, in fact, that my default browser will be Konqueror and my email client will be KMail. i’ve already switched to aKgregator for RSS feeds and amaroK for music. i’m still wavering between Gaim and Kopete for my messaging program. Both work will all services i use, so the decision will be based on the look-and-feel and the integration. i also a few programs looking through the repositories which look interesting: kdissert and tellico. kdissert is a “mind-mapping” program useful for writing lengthy papers (i.e. dissertations). tellico is a collections program used to maintain a database of any kind of collection (books, cds, art pieces, etc). With all of the neatness of Linux distributions, i’ll be sticking with Debian, but moving to the “testing” version as it seems to be stable enough to use as a server yet updated enough to have recent programs. It is expected to be released as the next stable version in December. i think it would be fun one day to compile everything in Linux from their sources, but i don’t think i’m saavy enough to do so without screwing things up.
No TagsAs promised, on break from writing, here’s my new desktop:
OK, well technically i am running 4 different desktops (each customisable), this is the only one i really touched on. Notice the news ticker at top (which is currently reading feeds from Slashdot and the Monitor), the neato weather widget and the moon phase thingy. Also, those little tiny boxes next to the moon phase are graphs of my computer usage and wifi connection. There’s also a little number at the top-right which shows the current temperature of my processor (yes, i am a geek). Those black tab things at the bottom right are just some basic computer info, such as hard drive, CPU, and memory usage, as well as front-end for the media player. For some comic relief, look at what the clock (very bottom right corner) says. And that’s just KDE right out of the box without customization. Once i customise everything (after i’ve finished all of my papers!), i’ll update everything.
No TagsHi, just letting you know that i’m alive. X-Men 3 was decent, although it did violence to the comics. Will i go see X-Men 4 if there is one? Probably so….just without my Nightcrawler t-shirt.
i’ve been working on my computer…here’s a cool comparison:
- Windows XP Pro with some software (OpenOffice, Macromedia Web Suite, a test server [XAMPP], and a handful of games like Myst and Starcraft): 15 Gb.
- Debian Linux with the 2.6.16 kernel and mucho software (KDE 3.5, OpenOffice, KOffice, theGimp, a fully functioning server, Gnome 2.1, a bunch of neato widgets on the desktop including a news ticker, an hourly weather report, multiple resource monitors, and a blog aggregator): 6 Gb.
i’ve been running in Linux without a reboot for two weeks (minus a few hours where my power supply died on me for some strange reason) and haven’t needed to reboot at all. Linux is definitely nicer than Windows. By the end of summer, i may be removing Windows completely. i’ll post screen shots of my desktop next week after i’m finished all of my papers.
Speaking of papers, here’s my “official” topics:
- “Knowledge and Certainty” for my epistemology class. My primary sources for this on are Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, Plato’s Theaetetus, and Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. i am arguing here that one cannot have knowledge with certainty if that is seen as “being possibly wrong (i.e. falsifiable) but not being such” or (in other words) “being right without being wrong even though it’s possible.”
- “After Nietzsche” for my (gasp!) Nietzsche class. My primary sources are Mark Taylor’s Erring, Heidegger’s Nietzsche, Nietzsche’s The Antichrist, and Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. i may also use Beyond Good and Evil for some citations. i’ll argue here that Nietzsche is no long appropriate for theology, especially in a postmodern paradigm, because theology has evolved in such a way to make Nietzsche’s critiques inapplicable. In other words, he’s good reading, but no longer useful for theology.
- “Becoming Fundamentalist” for my (you guessed it) fundamentalism class. My primary sources (so far) are Juergensmeyer’s Terror in the Mind of God, Tibi’s Challenge of Fundamentalism, and Marsden’s Fundamentalism and American Culture. In this paper, i argue that fundamentalism in Christian and Muslim circles have very strong influences in their respective religions and, in fact, both groups have been gravitating away from a “middle” and towards the sides of “fundamentalist” or “liberal.”
Talk
thainamu
Chris Martin
Wilson, Rick, brad, christopher, brad, christopher, brad, christopher, brad
christopher, Jeffrey Rodriguez
pfunked, christopher, pfunked
Jasen