Inner Asian Empire and the Unity of China
EdX.org ChinaX part 6. How do the incorporation of the inner Asian frontier, the final corporation of this frontier into Qing shape the course of modern Chinese history? How is…
The Complete Harvard Classics By Volume – Free PDF Downloads
Mirrored from https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120212 Volume 1 – Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn Volume 2 – Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius Volume 3 – Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thomas Browne Volume 4 –…
A bipartisan agreement: Trump is bad for democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/01/18/a-bipartisan-agreement-trump-is-bad-for-democracy/?utm_term=.8240512a2c3f “I think [America First is] very short sighted,” Kasich said of the desire to “withdraw, take care of ourselves.” The report explains that democracies around the globe were under…
The Makings of a Leader
Just Wow! How, then, does he establish himself as a leader of his family? Well, it is not accepted right away that he will be the leader of his family.…
The 40-year gap, or What has academic computer science ever done for us programmers
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/40-year-gap-what-has-academic-computer-science-ever-done-winitzki/ Has academic computer science been useful for practicing software engineers? I will show that it has, but with about 40 years of delay. Declarative arithmetic expressions, such as SQRT(2.0*X)/Y,…
Compiling fluxbox under Ubuntu
Download fluxbox source code from its official website. http://fluxbox.org/download/ sudo apt-get install build-essential texinfo libacl1-dev autoconf automake xorg-dev libx11-dev libimlib2-dev libxinerama-dev libxrender-dev libxft-dev libxpm-dev ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-nls --enable-imlib2 --enable-xinerama make…
Neglected big problems
Relearn Every Generation – We must each relearn many basic life lessons during our individual lifetimes, lessons that millions or billions of others already learned in their previous lifetimes, or…
What does directory permission ‘S’ mean?
‘S’ = The directory’s setgid bit is set, but the execute bit isn’t set. ‘s’ = The directory’s setgid bit is set, and the execute bit is set. SetGID =…
Please help me to understand these tun0 addresses
Hardware network links can be either point to point or point to multipoint. ppp links are point to point, ethernet is point to multipoint. tun can act as either, in…
Intel CPU, PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = AMD64?
Yep, that’s right. The 64 bit extensions to the x86 architecture were invented and first implemented by AMD. Intel were laggards to the 64 bit party because they were hoping…