Welcome to KC0DXF.Net

Thursday, 28-Aug-2008 02:45:11 CDT

This is the web site of Luz and Bob Wooldridge. All software applications used on this server are licensed under a Free or Open Source copyright. These applications are typically found in the Debian software archives. Debian is the best Linux distribution in my opinion. I have been using it since 1996. Get it for yourself and give it a try. I'm always available for help if you need it. You may also find support in the Debian User Forums.

What's Here

Bob's blog (since 2002).
Our Photo Gallery.
New blog engine, Serendipity, as of February 2008.
The first page in a series of notes on building a Qmail based email server is about running Dovecot IMAP under daemon tools (July 2008).

Quotable Quotes

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-Abba Eban (Israeli diplomat 1915-2002)

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
-Abraham Lincoln

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- James Madison

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

Any problem, to be a problem, must contain an unknown. If all was known the problem would vanish. The problem would cease to persist.
- Alan C. Walter, from "Knowledgism - The Laws of Life"

God made man in his own image and man returned the compliment.
- Blaise Pascal

Inspiration happens, but you have to be working. - Pablo Picasso

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas Gandhi

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

A people who will not be ruled by God, are destined to be ruled by tyrants.
- William Penn

The purpose of science has gone from making discoveries to getting grants granted.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, M.D., Ph.D.

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
- Mother Teresa

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
- George S. Patton

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
- J. S. Bach

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis for man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
- Linus Pauling

Minds are like parachutes they only work when open.
--Sir Thomas Dewar

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
- Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956) p. 247

It takes much more than logic and clear-cut demonstrations to overcome the inertia and dogma of established thought.
- Chemist Irving Stone

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson

Yes, my good friend, I see you are hard at it and I never can quit the house of my rich patients without shaking hands with the cook. I owe you much, for you confer great favours on me. Your skill in kickshaws and the ingenious art of poisoning enables us medical men to ride in our carriages. Without your assistance, we should all go on foot and be slaved!!
- (The Physician's Friend, published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London, England, 1805-1824).

There was palpable hostility between different development teams on the Microsoft campus. You always got the feeling that the Microsoft Word team didn't care about beating WordPerfect (their once mighty competitor), they just wanted to get one over on the Microsoft Excel team by grabbing more market share in their field than Excel did. The company was a group of warring tribes only held together by the force of will of the Great Khan Gates.
- Samba Developer, Jeremy Allison

While the Merlin-engine versions run very smoothly, the larger Griffon-engine machines feel as if they are angry. The sound from the exhaust stacks and the vibration transferred to the seat of the pants communicates visceral power, almost a desire to go kill something. Any hot-rod lover would enjoy this sensation of unbridled horsepower, this impatience to be turned loose and hunt. Every fighter I've been in is great fun to fly but only a very few are brutally straight about why they exist. The Griffon Spitfire is one such machine.
- Test Pilot, Jeff Ethell

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
- George Bernard Shaw