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Meritocracy on Radio Worldview
03.22.07 | Permalink | No Comments
I highly recommend the podcast Radio Worldview. They just finished a two part series on Meritocracy, which is the assignment of social position based on merit, ability, or character rather than on wealth, family, or race. The first part of the series focuses on politics and race and the second ...
Videos
A Day in the Life …
03.11.07 | Permalink | No Comments
This is a video that a friend of mine shot in college. It has footage from a Project Pandemic concert (the band that my wife and I were in before we started dating).
Videos
Video Test
03.11.07 | Permalink | No Comments
Baby Crib Video
Programming, Ruby, Lisp
Speaking Ruby with a Lisp
03.07.07 | Permalink | No Comments
While I have decided to use SICP as a textbook to learn to program, I am in no way planning to use the Lisp dialect Scheme for my everyday programming. I will use SICP as a learning tool to stretch my mind and then apply what I learn using the ...
Programming
Which Programming Language ?
03.03.07 | Permalink | No Comments
I have had the desire to be a programmer of computers since I was in high school, but I've always been stumped by this question: Which programming language should I learn? I tried learning MS Visual Basic back in high school. I didn't get very far because I didn't have ...
Programming
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
03.02.07 | Permalink | No Comments
About a year ago I came across an essay that inspired me. It was entitled Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. What stuck with me was the idea that it takes a while to get good at something. Moreover, I shouldn't be discouraged if I don't learn how to program ...
Programming
MIT Programming Course
My wife's father pointed me toward MIT course materials that are available free online. I found a gem in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It is a beginner's course in computer programming for MIT students.
The text uses a dialect of LISP called Scheme, which I've heard of before but ...
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Much Learning
02.02.07 | Permalink | No Comments
I often think that I am learning at a very slow rate, but when I look back I'm surprised at my progress. My last post was about ssh related tools. I now use ssh all the time and sshfs has been released for Mac OS X. Things like this make ...
IT Administration
nmap
08.30.06 | Permalink | No Comments
Another unix command line tool. I had a missing device on my network that I was trying to find. I didn't know what IP address a print server was using and I needed to know to get a Windows machine to print to it.
Enter nmap.
I downloaded the source and compiled ...
IT Administration
ssh technologies - scp
08.29.06 | Permalink | No Comments
I'm still beginning to learn about ssh technologies, but I like everything I see. I've used sshfs experimentally and its awesome (more on that later). Today I tried scp, which is a tool that copies files over the network using ssh. I used it to copy our versioned server backup ...
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Matthew Metzger is a Family Man, Writer, Website Administrator, Linux Advocate, among other things. --- Currently operates a computer repair business in La Crosse, Wisconsin: Orange Computer Solutions --- Follow Matthew on Twitter: @MatthewMetzger & @OrangeComputer
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- Finally Joined Twitter
- Asus Eee PC 900 - One Month In
- Google’s Chrome and Understanding Comics
- Why Buy Made In USA.com
- American Made
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