Syntactic Whitespace

“Due to newly acquired intelligence The City has been put under Level Three “Protection” [L3P].”
The announcement took the entirety of The City by surprise, as the COMs
– as everyone in The City called the network of communication devices laid
throughout the city hundreds of years before during The City’s inception – screeched into life.
Level Three “Protection” was something that was taught in textbooks, and everyone knew the IDEA of,
however nobody believed that it would actually be put into effect. The Government called it
“protection”, although Level Three Spying would be a more apt description.

The Three in Level Three “Protection” didn’t really describe the level of “protection”, the amount
of “protection” was the same no matter what level the system was on. The Level described the
physical area that would be “protected”. Level One “Protection” allowed The Government
to use covert surveillance anywhere on the streets, roads, sidewalks, public parks, official buildings
of The Government and just about anywhere outdoors. Level Two “Protection” allowed The Government to
use covert surveillance everywhere they could use Level One Surveillance with the addition of
of inside stores, restaurants , movie theaters, and anywhere that dealt services to the public.
Level Three “Protection”, however, to this day had only existed in theory. Level Three “Protection”
allowed the government to use covert surveillance anywhere they could use Levels One and Two with
the addition that terrified the inhabitants of The City.

Level Three “Protection” allowed the use
of covert surveillance in private homes. This was unheard of, with the advent of privacy laws
and lobbyists, this level of “protection” was never put into use. This allowed inhabitants of
The City to be watched 24×7. This was an attempt of some power-hungry higher-ups in The Government
to manipulate the lives of the citizens to a greater degree. They expected the inhabitants to take this
lying down, but what they didn’t know, is one man wouldn’t have it, and would rise up against them.
This is his story.

Top Bands of the moment in no particular order

• Senses Fail
• Underoath
• Rise Against
• Lostprophets
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• Breaking Benjamin
• Anberlin
• Finch
• Thursday
• The Fray
• Thrice
• Linkin Park

I’ve been listening to tons more music than I did before. I’d like to point out one of my favorite albums

Vheissu by Thrice

This album surprised my by it’s sheer diversity in musical style, from the chain-gang chorus of
The Earth Will Shake , to the hardcore style of Hold Fast Hope. This album is a fantastic purchase
worth every penny spent.

The Album Cover to Vheissu

As I’ve said many times before, I’m a die-hard Linux fan, but what about those times when you just can’t avoid using Windows

Here are a few things you can do to make yourself more at home.

1. Virtual Desktops – The thing we take for granted on our linux machines, we can still have on Windows. There are tons of Virtual Desktop apps for windows, but the best I’ve found is called
   VirtuaWin, make sure to get the vwPager module to go with it Here
2. Get a shell – you can get tons and tons of unix utilities including vi,bash,ssh,cp,ln and all of the rest with cygwin, a unix emulator for windows, with an easy setup and package installer, get all of your favorite apps. Get Cygwin here
3. Make it Pretty – Linux is known for being able to be customized in a pretty much infinite number of ways, windows however…is not, but you can make it much prettier with Visual Styles. Learn to set them up Here
4. Get your apps – Don’t forget, most of your favorite Open Source software is also available for windows, including Openoffice, Firefox, find more Open Source software for windows at OSS Win

This post cross-posted at Daemon Diaries

I recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop … here is how it went:

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