The role of the law

There are two possible roles that the law can fulfill: protecting the weak from being exploited, or protecting the exploitation of the weak. In the first case it works for the interests of the poor, in the second case for the interests of the rich.

In the case of employment, trade unions successfully fought to [...]

When all the pieces come together (revised life vision)

Today’s new verbalization for my life vision is: “The integrated lifestyle that I want to achieve and have permanently while I am on earth is three integrated elements:

Xpedition community, a mobile, travelling, resilient, autarkic, effectively sovereign, powerful community of Christians and non-Christians, men and women, poor and rich alike, cross-secting races, cultures and languages, but [...]

Computer-enabled New Generalists

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]

Sovereign community live: introducing Factor e

Remember my futuristic, utopian blog post about the sovereign community concept just some days ago? Now just yesterday I found out there is one approach for such a high-tech enabled power community underway. I was seriously bedazzled. May I introduce: Factor e. It took me the whole night (literally) to read and watch all the [...]

How to fix the problem with Hostgator (Webhosting, Baby Plan) that mails do not arrive at a domain for which only mail forwarders are set up?

The setup was this: a domain example.com, registered at Domaindiscount24 (dd24.net) as the DNS hoster, and set up there so that there was an “IN A” record pointing to the Hostgator server’s IP address, and a “IN MX” record containing “10 example.com” (with 10 being the priority). On the Hostgator server, the example.com domain was [...]

How to install and run an AIR application on a headless Linux server?

Task

I had to run existing ActionScript code on a headless Linux server and decided to do it by running an AIR application with the Xvfb virtual X server, as reasoned for in my article “How to run ActionScript in headless mode (on Linux without X server)?“.

Problem

I did not think that running an [...]

How to run ActionScript in headless mode (on Linux without X server)?

This task is quite strange: I needed to find a way how to execute existing ActionScript code on a headless Linux server. A scenario like this can also happen if you need to develop an automated test environment for you Flash / Flex or AIR applications. You cannot run either Flash SWF files or AIR [...]

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