Monthly Archives: July 2016

America’s Crippled Political Discourse and the Trump Phenomenon

Posted on July 20, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

I have been thinking a lot recently about my attempts at fairly analyzing the two major scandals facing Hillary Rodham Clinton: the utterly-bereft-of-substance Benghazi “scandal” and the bona fide failure on her behalf that was the email server scandal. For … Continue reading →

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Using systemd and Logical Volume Manager Snapshot Volumes During Fedora Operating System Upgrades

Posted on July 3, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

With the looming end of support for Fedora 22, I thought I might write this up: I just successfully made use of this solution (based on instructions from the excellent ArchWiki) and I thought I’d provide documentation here since it’s … Continue reading →

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Upgrade Notes: Fedora 22 to Fedora 23

Posted on July 3, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

Well, despite the relatively complexity of my home server arrangement, I am happy to report that the Fedora team has succeeded in providing a distribution that smoothly upgrades without any additional administrative intervention!  Hooray! Nonetheless, to be safe, I recommend … Continue reading →

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