Category: Written

Updates made to the Openbox HOWTO

I have made several changes to the Openbox HOWTO. There were many typographical errors that I didn’t catch the first time around, and package links that weren’t added. Here’s a full list of the updates for version 1.4: In code listing 2.5, changed the $ to # as the operation requires root actions.Added a note …

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Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times (Part IV)

Okay, so the idea that I could get one of these done per day hasn’t exactly worked out. However, I’m still going to finish the series, but it may take me longer than previously anticipated. We need to seriously investigate whether people who have fame, power, and wealth are happy and whether those who have …

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Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times (Part III)

We should find the truth in this world through our difficulties, through our suffering. This is the basic teaching of Buddhism. Pleasure is not different from difficulty. Good is not different from bad. Bad is good; good is bad.                     –Shunryu Suzuki Roshi The first part of the quote seems to say that the through the …

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