http://digital-rag.com Real World Information in a Virtual World admin@pacdat.net admin@pacdat.net Copyright 2012 The Digital Rag glFusion Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:09:03 -0800 en-gb http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ElephantGathering http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ElephantGathering Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:30:41 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ElephantGathering#comments Richard Pitt Cancer <p>March 3, 2012 - Instead of waiting until after I die to have a &quot;wake&quot; or &quot;celebration of life&quot; I decided that being around and being able to talk to people from all aspects of my life is much better, for both me and for tho ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/ElephantGathering http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TheDigitalHereafterMapleRidgeNews http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TheDigitalHereafterMapleRidgeNews Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:26:02 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TheDigitalHereafterMapleRidgeNews#comments Richard Pitt Cancer <p><img src="http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/82517mapleridgebloggerRichardPitt01192c.jpg" alt="Richard Pitt at my workstation - Photo by Colleen Flanagan/The News" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" width="320" height="214" />I spent the be ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/TheDigitalHereafterMapleRidgeNews http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CancerElephantInTheRoom http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CancerElephantInTheRoom Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:42:40 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CancerElephantInTheRoom#comments Richard Pitt Cancer <p>The elephant in the room is the subject that everybody knows about but is afraid to bring up and talk about. In this case, it is cancer.</p> <p>I know people who simply don't want to talk about death.</p> <p>A good friend of mine was literally ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/CancerElephantInTheRoom http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ExternalitiesAreTheKeyToEnvironment http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ExternalitiesAreTheKeyToEnvironment Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:56:09 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ExternalitiesAreTheKeyToEnvironment#comments Richard Pitt The Environment <p>The key to any company getting the go ahead for their environmentally sensitive project and getting buy-in from the Canadian and world public is to identify all the externalities that concern the environmentalists (and governments) and deal wi ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/ExternalitiesAreTheKeyToEnvironment http://digital-rag.com/article.php/SOPA-Stupid1990LawsUpdated http://digital-rag.com/article.php/SOPA-Stupid1990LawsUpdated Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:39:29 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/SOPA-Stupid1990LawsUpdated#comments Richard Pitt Our Masters (government) <p>Back in June of 1995 I wrote a piece for our Wimsey's Digital Rag online magazine (the forerunner of this site) titled <a href="http://richard.pacdat.net/Digital_Rag/issues/June95/article.html">Community Standards and the Internet</a>. At that ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/SOPA-Stupid1990LawsUpdated http://digital-rag.com/article.php/StressRelatedIntestinalDisorder http://digital-rag.com/article.php/StressRelatedIntestinalDisorder Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:40:33 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/StressRelatedIntestinalDisorder#comments Richard Pitt Cancer <p>I thought I had an ulcer, so I was on an ulcer diet. Two weeks later this will be moot, but for now I've got a problem. This is a bit of an aside to my battle with the cancer that eventually was shown to be the real problem as opposed to the u ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/StressRelatedIntestinalDisorder http://digital-rag.com/article.php/RemoteAccessToYourDataToday http://digital-rag.com/article.php/RemoteAccessToYourDataToday Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:17:10 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/RemoteAccessToYourDataToday#comments Richard Pitt Computers in Use <h4>This article has spawned a request for me to speak at VANLUG (Vancouver Linux Users Group) technical meeting on <a href="http://www.meetup.com/VanLUG-BC/events/46081442/">Monday, January 16, 2012</a>. See the notes at the bottom for links abo ... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/RemoteAccessToYourDataToday http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MusingsOnLife http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MusingsOnLife Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:00:36 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/MusingsOnLife#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>Concensus is that the first person to reach the age of 150 is already alive, and that the first person to reach the age of 1000 will be born some time in the next 30-50 years.</p> <p>Scary thought - what do you do if you get 75 years of good h ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/MusingsOnLife http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EmergencyAndMe http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EmergencyAndMe Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:18:21 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EmergencyAndMe#comments Richard Pitt Cancer <p>The ongoing story of my discovery that instead of an ulcer, I have cancer. <a href="http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BlindidedByCancer">Here's part one.</a></p> <p>I left off <a href="http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BlindidedByCancer">par ...</a></p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/EmergencyAndMe http://digital-rag.com/article.php/PainInHospitals http://digital-rag.com/article.php/PainInHospitals Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:37:36 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/PainInHospitals#comments Richard Pitt Cancer <p>Another in the <a href="http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BlindidedByCancer">series on my cancer.</a> I'm up at 1:30AM after having had to deal with pain, so it is fitting that I start this article on pain and how I think I've finally come to ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/PainInHospitals http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BlindidedByCancer http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BlindidedByCancer Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:56:53 -0800 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BlindidedByCancer#comments Richard Pitt Cancer <p>This is the first of my ongoing series of articles on my dealing with cancer starting in November of 2011. If you are squeamish or don't approve of the use of medically correct (or in some cases simply pragmatic) terminology then you might che ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/BlindidedByCancer http://digital-rag.com/article.php/OfMirrorsAndLuckDataRecoveryOnRAID1 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/OfMirrorsAndLuckDataRecoveryOnRAID1 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:59:27 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/OfMirrorsAndLuckDataRecoveryOnRAID1#comments Richard Pitt System Administration Tidbits <p><img width="286" height="246" vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" alt="" src="http://digital-rag.com/images/library/Image/ChosenWisely.jpg" />Unlike Harrison Ford in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097576/">Indiana Jones and the La ...</a></p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/OfMirrorsAndLuckDataRecoveryOnRAID1 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/OpenLetterReLawfulAccess http://digital-rag.com/article.php/OpenLetterReLawfulAccess Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:21:24 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/OpenLetterReLawfulAccess#comments Richard Pitt Our Masters (government) <h3>Sent by email to:&nbsp;Stephen Harper &lt;HarpeS@parl.gc.ca&gt;, Randy Kamp &lt;KampR@parl.gc.ca&gt;</h3> <h3>Dear Mr. Harper and Mr. Kamp</h3> <p>I've just finished watching the video at ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/OpenLetterReLawfulAccess http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DontWantOurSteelNoCopyright http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DontWantOurSteelNoCopyright Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:16:19 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DontWantOurSteelNoCopyright#comments Richard Pitt Our Masters (government) <p>You've likely read some of my articles on copyright and the fact that Canada has been pressured to adopt US-style DMCA-like law despite the fact that <a href="http://digital-rag.com/article.php/WhyNotDMCAforCanada">we don't have the constituio ...</a></p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/DontWantOurSteelNoCopyright http://digital-rag.com/article.php/RadicalThoughtsForA60YearOld http://digital-rag.com/article.php/RadicalThoughtsForA60YearOld Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:14:32 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/RadicalThoughtsForA60YearOld#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>I just don't know where to begin.</p> <p>Something is bugging me, something huge.</p> <p>I'm seeing daily examples of the extension of &quot;Big Brother&quot; or &quot;1984-style&quot; government surveilance of its citizens in what to my mind ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/RadicalThoughtsForA60YearOld http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Fedora15AndLatestSeamonkey2.3.1 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Fedora15AndLatestSeamonkey2.3.1 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:26:51 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Fedora15AndLatestSeamonkey2.3.1#comments Richard Pitt Computers in Use <p>I use <a href="http://www.seamonkey-project.org/">Seamonkey</a>&nbsp;(another of the Mozilla browsers - this one includes calendar, HTML editor, Email and News reader)&nbsp;for a very small list of things, not the least of which is as my one b ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Fedora15AndLatestSeamonkey2.3.1 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Linuxcon2011LinuxCertification http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Linuxcon2011LinuxCertification Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:01:03 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Linuxcon2011LinuxCertification#comments Richard Pitt General News <p>At the VIP gathering after the sessions on Thursday, I spent some time talking to Jim Lacey (CEO) and&nbsp;Darrell Flewell (CFO) of the<a href="http://www.lpi.org/eng"> Linux Professional Institute</a>.</p> <p>As one of the &quot;old timers&qu ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Linuxcon2011LinuxCertification http://digital-rag.com/article.php/1990sIT-test http://digital-rag.com/article.php/1990sIT-test Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:05:54 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/1990sIT-test#comments Richard Pitt General News <p>Information Week's <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard/">The brainyard's</a> <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard/authors/6927">Debra Donston-Mille</a>r has another in the latest meme &quot;you know you're from ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/1990sIT-test http://digital-rag.com/article.php/InterludeToLinuxcon-BufferbloatBetaTest http://digital-rag.com/article.php/InterludeToLinuxcon-BufferbloatBetaTest Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:01:14 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/InterludeToLinuxcon-BufferbloatBetaTest#comments Richard Pitt General News <p>I'm not attending Linuxcon for various reasons - but I'm certainly aware it is on - and watching the proceedings via live stream as and when I can.</p> <p>One of the attendees, Dave T�ht, invited me to lunch yesterday and, as we'd never met in ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/InterludeToLinuxcon-BufferbloatBetaTest http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DiabetesAndLife http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DiabetesAndLife Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:37:59 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DiabetesAndLife#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>This morning, my sugar reading was 11.1 - normal is something below 6.0 and &quot;adequate&quot; is something below 7.0&nbsp;</p> <p>I've always been &quot;high&quot; in the morning - no obvious reason. I don't eat huge amounts at dinner time, ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/DiabetesAndLife