The Tyler Technologies Blog

Pioneers

2009-10-31T21:51:00.001-07:00

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

COME my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the
seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

We detachments steady throwing,
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

We primeval forests felling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines
within,
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high
plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental
blood intervein'd,
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the
Northern,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O resistless restless race!
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress,
(bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd
mistress,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

See my children, resolute children,
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

On and on the compact ranks,
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly
fill'd,
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O to die advancing on!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the pulses of the world,
Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

All the hapless silent lovers,
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

I too with my soul and body,
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions
pressing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Lo, the darting bowling orb!
Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait
behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you daughters of the West!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Minstrels latent on the prairies!
(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your
work,)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Not for delectations sweet,
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Has the night descended?
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding
on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the daybreak call-hark! how loud and clear I hear it
wind,
Swift! to the head of the army!-swift! spring to your places,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Back to Leaves of Grass 1891

2009-10-19T23:13:00.001-07:00

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed with the things you didn't do than the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

Richard Feynman:

2009-10-07T07:56:00.000-07:00

"Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation…. As a matter of fact I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

Disable password on resume form suspen in Gnome/Ubuntu

2009-10-01T08:39:00.000-07:00

Go to the terminal (Applications >> Accessories >> Terminal) and type:
gconf-editor
This will pull up the gnome configurations editor. Out of the left had menu select the Apps folder then gnome power manager sub-folder, then the lock sub-folder. Deselect the 'suspend' key from the right window pane. Thats it.

2009-09-22T12:51:00.001-07:00

I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.
--(Descartes, Discourse on the Method)

Turn off your cellphone dude

2009-09-14T11:21:00.000-07:00

http://news.cnet.com/FBI-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/2100-1029_3-6140191.html

http://counter.li.org/

2009-08-28T12:07:00.000-07:00

I am now Linux user 495682.

Astrophysicists puzzle over planet that's too close to its sun

2009-08-27T10:44:00.000-07:00

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-planet27-2009aug27,0,5882308.story

Sister - Sufjan Stevens

2009-07-23T12:51:00.000-07:00

What the water wants is hurricanes,
and sailboats to ride on its back.
What the water wants is sun kiss,
and land to run into and back.
I have a fish stone burning my elbow,
reminding me to know that I'm glad
that I have a bottle filled with my old teeth.
They fell out like a tear in the bag.
And I have a sister somewhere in Detroit
She has black hair and small hands.
And I have a kettledrum
I'll hit the earth with you.
And I will crochet you a hat.
And I have a red kite;
I'll put you right in it.
I'll show you the sky

-----

This is a beautiful song, and it reminds me of some sunny days. I like that

2009-07-19T19:33:00.001-07:00

"We get the government we deserve" -- Robert Glennon

2009-05-20T09:31:00.001-07:00

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/tech_docs/qref/editors/vim_keys.html

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HMC Computer Science Department

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A List of the Key Commands in Vim

The ^ character denotes holding control then hitting the next key.

Placing a number immediately before any command will repeat that command. For example, typing 4dd will delete the current line and the next 3.

Vim Commands
Action	Command
invoke vim	vim filename
save file	:w
exit vim	:q
command line mode	Esc
undo	u
Search and Replace
search forward	/ [string]
search backward	? [string]
find and replace once	:s/[string to be found]/[thing to replace it]
find and replace on line	*:s/[string]/[string]/g*
find and replace globally	*:%s/[string]/[string]/g*
Movement Commands
up one line	up arrow or k
down one line	down arrow or j
right one character	right arrow or l
left one character	left arrow or h
next word (until first character of next word)	w
next word (until end of current word)	e
previous word	b
beginning of line	0
end of line	$
page forward	^d
page backward	^u
Delete Commands
delete current character	x
delete current character and replace it with one character	r [character]
to end of line	d$
entire current line	dd
paste what was just deleted	p
delete to end of word and put into insert mode	ce
delete to end of line and put into insert mode	c$

A good quote and mantra of mine

2009-05-03T22:38:00.001-07:00

``I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it''
--Voltaire

Check This Out

2009-04-30T14:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

Possible Lyric

2009-04-16T18:03:00.000-07:00

For every door that opens, another ten doors close.

-TRR

Need a Guitar Tuner For Linux?

2009-04-11T15:25:00.000-07:00

I strongly suggest the Free Music Instrument Tuner (or fmit for short)

to install in Ubuntu:
sudo aptitude install fmit;

everyone else download the source or the rpm package from
http://home.gna.org/fmit/

It supports Jack as well as Alsa
~Tyler

Suspend Resume While Running Transmission Bit Torrent Client

2009-04-11T15:15:00.000-07:00

I have been very annoyed that I cannot suspend or resume my computer while the Ubuntu default torrent client Transmission is running, so, I found a solution:
- goto your home directory
-select "show hidden files" from the 'View' dropdown menu. (Optionally press crtl-h)
-open the '.config' folder
-open the 'transmission' folder
-open 'settings.json' with gedit
-find the line that says: "allow-hibernation-even-when-torrents-are-active" (it was the first value in my file)
-change the number directly after that statement from 0 to 1
-save the file
-restart transmission!

Thats it...
If you know how to use vim you can just
vim ~/.config/transmission/settings.json
and edit it like that. :)

the creation of dna, not random, NOT GOD but physics

2009-04-10T00:10:00.000-07:00

http://scienceandevolution.blogspot.com/2007/11/dna-is-vestige-of-formation-of-liquid.htmla

My debate skills stem

2009-04-08T10:58:00.001-07:00

from this
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/logic.html

from http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html

2009-04-08T08:57:00.000-07:00

Biblical contradictions wanted

"Does anyone have a list of Biblical contradictions?"

Yes. There are many such lists. The following are here in the Secular Web Library:

Bible Inconsistencies: Bible Contradictions? by Donald Morgan is a fairly comprehensive list of such problems.
Best-Selling Errancy by Mark D. Ball, Ph.D., is an essay on inconsistencies in the Bible.
New Testament Contradictions by Paul Carlson discusses some of the most glaring New Testament contradictions.
A List of Biblical Contradictions by Jim Meritt looks at about five dozen contradictions.

In addition, there are many other biblical problems. See, for example, the Biblical Criticism and the Biblical Errancy pages in the Secular Web Library.

Are you a free thinker? I hope so...

2009-04-08T08:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.ffrf.org/nontracts/freethinker.php

To be a freethinker is far better than being of the sheeple.

I hate this argument: christians, stop using it

2009-04-08T08:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html

The universe is so complex it must have been designed

"The presence of design in the universe proves there is a God. Surely you don't think all this appeared here just by chance?"

This is known as the Argument From Design.

It is a matter of dispute whether there is any element of design in the universe. Those who believe that the complexity and diversity of living creatures on the earth is evidence of a creator are advised to consult the Talk Origins Archive.

There is insufficient space to summarize both sides of that debate here. However, the conclusion is that there is no scientific evidence in favor of so-called Scientific Creationism. Furthermore, there is much evidence, observation and theory that can explain many of the complexities of the universe and life on earth.

The origin of the Argument by Design is a feeling that the existence of something as incredibly intricate as, say, a human is so improbable that surely it can't have come about by chance; that surely there must be some external intelligence directing things so that humans come from the chaos deliberately.

But if human intelligence is so improbable, surely the existence of a mind capable of fashioning an entire universe complete with conscious beings must be immeasurably more unlikely? The approach used to argue in favor of the existence of a creator can be turned around and applied to the Creationist position.

This leads us to the familiar theme of "If a creator created the universe, what created the creator?" but with the addition of spiraling improbability. The only way out is to declare that the creator was not created and just "is" (or "was").

From here we might as well ask what is wrong with saying that the universe just "is" without introducing a creator? Indeed Stephen Hawking, in his book "A Brief History of Time," explains his theory that the universe is closed and finite in extent, with no beginning or end.

The Argument From Design is often stated by analogy, in the so-called Watchmaker Argument. One is asked to imagine that one has found a watch on the beach. Does one assume that it was created by a watchmaker, or that it evolved naturally? Of course one assumes a watchmaker. Yet like the watch, the universe is intricate and complex; so, the argument goes, the universe too must have a creator.

The Watchmaker analogy suffers from three particular flaws, over and above those common to all Arguments By Design. Firstly, a watchmaker creates watches from pre-existing materials, whereas God is claimed to have created the universe from nothing. These two sorts of creation are clearly fundamentally different, and the analogy is therefore rather weak.

Secondly, a watchmaker makes watches, but there are many other things in the world. If we walked further along the beach and found a nuclear reactor, we wouldn't assume it was created by the watchmaker. The argument would therefore suggest a multitude of creators, each responsible for a different part of creation (or a different universe, if you allow the possibility that there might be more than one).

Finally, in the first part of the watchmaker argument we conclude that the watch is not part of nature because it is ordered, and therefore stands out from the randomness of nature. Yet in the second part of the argument, we start from the position that the universe is obviously not random, but shows elements of order. The Watchmaker argument is thus internally inconsistent.

Apart from logical inconsistencies in the watchmaker argument, it's worth pointing out that biological systems and mechanical systems behave very differently. What's unlikely for a pile of gears is not necessarily unlikely for a mixture of biological molecules.

The common atheistic arguments

2009-04-08T08:20:00.000-07:00

Please don't use these arguments or methods of persuading me toward God: they will not work.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html

I kept confusing this with existintialism.

2009-04-08T08:19:00.000-07:00

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that "My mind is the only thing that I know exists." Solipsism is an epistemological or ontological position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis.
[Wikipedia]

OpenGl on Ubuntu

2009-04-08T06:35:00.000-07:00

ok, here are my initial notes on installing opengl for developers:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev build-essential libglut3-dev

It has worked for me, if you have problems leave a comment or email me, I might be able to help.
Here is the set of tutorials I'm using to learn: http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/opengl/opengltuts.html

Lock your laptop on lid close

2009-03-17T09:27:00.000-07:00

"In Fedora 8 when I closed my laptop lid, my screen would lock. Under Ubuntu 8.04 this doesn’t happen. After a bit of digging, I found a solution. The gconf-editor setting is “/apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/blank_screen”. When set to true, closing the lid will lock the screen. Luvvvly. :)"

Thanks: http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2008/06/11/ubuntu-lock-screen-on-laptop-close-lid/