A few days back we looked at how to password protect your GRUB boot entries so that a password is required before anyone can boot the operating system or edit the boot entry. Let’s look at some ways you can use to reset your Linux system’s password. You might know that the root user can ...

Ouch! — After promising to “push the reset buttonâ€� on relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to present Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a light-hearted gift at their talks last Friday night to symbolize the Obama administration’s desire for a new be...

Rope, Trees, Some Assembly Required Orlando Sentinel columnist Charley Reese cut loose in the mid-80's. It's even more pertinent now, and it's making the rounds of the blogosphere, updated by someone. Here's my little assist. 545 PEOPLE Politicians are the only people in the world who create problem...

Avete mai avuto bisogno di resettare il vostro cellulare per i più svariati motivi (dovevate passarlo a un vostro parente, dovevate venderlo, avevate bisogno di far pulizia) ? Se la risposta è affermativa, molto probabilmente anche voi, come il sottoscritto, vi sarete più volte scontrati con l...

Zero Oversight and Insufficient Regulation Mostly Cajun has a very interesting post up on government interference regulation of his industry, the pumping of natural gas from the Gulf of Mexico up North where people use it to do stuff like, oh, heat their homes. Excerpt:One of the things I learned wa...

I turn my back for a second to spend a week with Street Fighter IV, and all of a sudden all hell breaks loose. The Mass Effect 2 teaser pops out of nowhere like a Cylon baby. It’s intriguing by the......

And in Related News, Michael Bane reports on a door-to-door confiscation practice run scheduled for April in Arcadia, Iowa. Like Michael, I'm printing the whole thing for archival purposes: Guardsmen to conduct urban training at Arcadia in April By BUTCH HEMAN Staff Writer The Carroll National Guard...

2400 Years, and the Logic is Still Irrefutable The main themes of this blog have been, since day one: Freedom, Individual Rights, Education, Personal Responsibility. I have posted, over and over, on the topic of our failing education system and how it has contributed to our national decline. I have ...

Confidence, Part III This will be the third blog essay that I am aware of that carries this title, thus "Part III." Good thing you can't copyright a title. (I hope it lives up to the quality of the prequels, though I warn you, this is not a "cheerful" post.) The first was Bill Whittle's Feb. 2003 pi...

THIS is Why . . . . . . an armed insurrection in America will not lead to a restoration of the Constitution and a return to Republican (as in "Republic" not the party misusing the name) ideals: The Survivors Of US Airways Flight 1549 Make Me Hate People Just to review, although I'm sure you all know...