The attempt to explain empirical inquiry as a rational alternative to the false propaganda propagated on faith.
Exploring the notion of absolute truth and how revealing that would actually be more of a fallacy than regular truth.
Exploring the erroneous notion that the holy scriptures were written by God, rather than be subject to the errs of humanity.
This is the introduction video to this serious of videos covering some of the falsehoods of the creationist (intelligent design) movement. This video is about the ignorance that religion feeds off of and the idea that accepting evolution is tantamount to declaring atheism, or that one need be creationist to be Christian.
Evaluating intelligent design creation science and their opposition to material science or methodological naturalism.
After upgrading to the 64 bit version of Mandriva Linux, my ATI video card ran even worse than before. This was the last straw and so I finally came into possession of a new Nvidia based video card. While slapping it in my computer, In the back of my mind i had a pretty good feeling that it wasn't going to be as smooth as one would hope. I was right.
Here is a nice list of real world usage examples for finding and manipulating files in linux and unix. They are broke up into multiple sections to allow for easier horizontal scrolling where needed.
As they say, you want something done right, you got to do it yourself! After my failed attempts to find a working tool to take care of 2 simple tasks on a large scale, I decided to write my own little program. Enter, SKwizard!
There is a really handy MySql utility called mysqlcheck that allows you to do a number of actions to all databases on your mysql server at once. I am writing this specifically for Linux, but I'm sure windows and Unix versions are very similar if not exactly the same. Run this command as root (super user)
Linux has a supposedly good memory management feature that will use up any "extra" RAM you have to cache stuff. This section of the memory being used is SUPPOSED to be freely available to be taken over by any other process that actually needs it, but unfortunately my Linux (three distros now, Mandriva 32 bit, and Mandriva 64 bit, and Opensuse 11 64 bit) thinks that cache memory is too important to move over for anything else that actually needs it.