Thanks to Amine Benaichouche (again). Stephen Fry is always awesome.

Thanks to Amine Benaichouche (again). Stephen Fry is always awesome.

Originally shared by Amine Benaichouche

*short video*
What The Hell Do People Believe In If They Don't Believe In God? This Guy Has One Heck Of An Answer.

Stephen Fry explains what the meaning of life is to him as a nonreligious person. In three minutes. Which is pretty impressive. It doesn't matter what you believe; these things seem pretty universal to me.

#atheism   #humanism   #secularhumanism   #existentialism   #stephenfry  
http://www.upworthy.com/what-the-hell-do-people-believe-in-if-they-dont-believe-in-god-this-guy-has-one-heck-of-an-answer

Thanks, Amine Benaichouche .

Thanks, Amine Benaichouche . I started at the bottom of the page with the Large Hadron Rap, and look forward to the rest. Great stuff!

Originally shared by Amine Benaichouche

In honor of the new Higgs Boson movie "Particle Fever," we've come up with our top five films on particle physics.

#higgsboson   #particlephysics   #particlefever  
http://go.aps.org/1nUxv58

Sums up what Fedora is quite nicely. Thanks Charlie Kravetz

Sums up what Fedora is quite nicely. Thanks Charlie Kravetz

Originally shared by Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca)
http://robyn.io/2014/03/25/fedora-red-hat-and-investing-in-the-future/

Think out of the box. There is always a solution.

Think out of the box. There is always a solution.

Originally shared by ****

Why you need a Fedora

Why you need a Fedora

If you are involved in any kind of software development or system administration I think you should spend a little time on Fedora. And I will tell you why I think you will benefit from it.

Fedora is a 100% free (as in it contains only code that is under free licenses and is unencumbered by patent claims). Fedora originated as Red Hat Linux, but Red Hat chose to concentrate on the server business and split the desktop-oriented linux out as Fedora. Although Red Hat are very active in Fedora there is no ownership. The reason Red Hat are so active in Fedora still is that it can be seen as a testbed for technologies they want to see matured for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In many ways Fedora is very bleeding edge, but still it is suprisingly stable and user friendly. Fedora will give you the latest releases from upstream as fast as you can reasonably expect from a mostly very stable distro.

If you develop software RHEL is surely on your support list. Have you ever been bitten by build problems after applying updates to your supported build platforms? A library update or a new kernel that breaks your code? When that happens you are in a hurry to fix the problem since the updates are certainly getting installed on production servers running your code as well. This is where building on Fedora could give you an early warning. Add a (possibly virtual) Fedora build server, and flag any build errors on that platform as non-critical. This will give you an idea of incoming trouble long before it hits, and your developers will have a lot of time to understand the issues and fix them properly.

What if you want your software to actually work on Fedora, and need an early warning for build problems on Fedora? No worries. Fedora Rawhide is the pre-alpha version of the next Fedora release. Note pre-alpha. It is unstable. Rawhide has no releases. It is a kind of rolling distro that the alpha versions of future Fedora versions get forked from. You will not always be able to get rawhide up and running, but when successful it will definitely give you an even earlier warning about build problems in your code. Set up your build system to clone your Fedora build system, add and enable the Fedora Rawhide repository. Then update it to the latest rawhide. I will not recommend trying to keep rawhide running for long periods. Just rebuild it from a regular Fedora every time you need it. 

Do you need more reasons to build on Fedora? As noted earlier Fedora is 100% free. There are no packages in Fedora that contain non-free code or code without proper open licenses. If you need to add packages outside the standard Fedora repos to build your code you should check why they aren’t part of Fedora. Will the reason affect your product? By building on Fedora you have the ability to know when you build on possibly non-free code.

If you do systems administration the reasons are similar. Fedora will give you early warnings about changes that affect your job. As a fedora user I have become used to systemd long before the debate went viral. And that is just the latest example. I run Fedora on my main desktop system to make sure I always have the latest tools available. Fedora is bleeding edge. It will break down sometimes. You should know basic Linux system administration. But if your work involves administration of linux servers it should be a given for your desktop.

There is one last thing as well. Fedora is your best bet for a linux desktop if you need to bind into proprietary technologies. Fedora 20 makes it easier than ever to add a system into a corporate Active Directory setup for user authentication. If you live in the borderlands between windows clients and linux servers it could be your desktop of choice. I’ll write more about Fedora in a windows-dominated work environment later.

It cannot be stated often enough that beauty is not what you read about in magazines.

It cannot be stated often enough that beauty is not what you read about in magazines. It is not something you can buy from a surgeon.

Beauty is a smile. A twinkle in the eye. Being self assured and confident.

Originally shared by Denis Wallez

Buddhism often talks of the mind as a mirror… and while most people easily understand that 'physical' mirror might distort images, they easily forget the other mirror.
« we forget the mind » (gplus.wallez.name/aVJ7pgjKZT6)


#buddhism  
photo: unattributed (h/t Di Simic)

Yes.

Yes.

Ht John Holmes

Originally shared by Gorgor Gor

That's why

Just to add a different voice here.

Just to add a different voice here. One that doesn't call for any invasions. Skip the first part about the pamphlet unless you like good conspiracies and read the rest. Interesting reading. Who is really the destabilizing factor in ukraine?

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/01/07/us-ngo-uncovered-in-ukraine-protests/

Open access to norwegian map data and free books describing the coast for sailors.

Open access to norwegian map data and free books describing the coast for sailors.

Norwegian authorities are working to free access to data produced using tax money. After all, we have already paid for it. Map data were an early win. At norgeskart.no you can find maps that are freely accessible at least from norwegian ip addresses. Api's are open. Sea maps are available as separate layers. The land maps are "the real thing" for hikers. The sea maps are the data the navigator maps from garmin, navion etc are based on.

Now they have decided to rework the book series "Den norske los" to make it better structured for electronic publication. Until that happens the current version will be available for download as pdf files at http://kartverket.no/Kart/Nautiske-hjelpemidler/Den-norske-los/

Book 7 (Svalbard and Jan Mayen) is available in english as well.

These books are the official supplement to the sea maps for vessels navigating the coast, and are mandatory for commercial vessels.

ROFL!

ROFL!

Originally shared by Catherine Wakeling