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LinuxForce launches a new website Remote Responder and a new blog on Managing FOSS for Business Results. I give two presentations at the LinuxForce seminar "Managing Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Business Results": "A Survey of FOSS Tools for Business Results" and "Managing FOSS for Business Results".2010 I launch a new personal blog: Syntropy: CJ Fearnley's Blog.2011 I agree to lead regular meetups for the Ben Franklin Thinking Society's on Science and Technology. I earned a Statement of Accomplishment from Jennifer Widom for completing the on-line course Introduction to Databases.2012 I earned a Statement of Accomplishment from Scott E. Page for completing the on-line course Model Thinking. In collaboration with Jeannie Moberly, I publish a paper on "Harmonic Perspective" in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Bridges 2012 conference and give a presentation on Harmonic Perspective as part of our joint work on Harmonic Perspective. I deliver presentations on Education Automation Now and in the Future and Synergetics and Model Thinking at the ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 4: Looking Forward at Buckminster Fuller's Legacy conference. I become a Co-Organizer for Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society. I earned a Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction signed by Carol Muller of the University of Pennsylvania for the Coursera course on Listening to World Music. I earned a Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction signed by Roger D. Peng of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for the Coursera course on Computing for Data Analysis. I earned a Statement of Accomplishment signed by Karl T. Ulrich of the University of Pennsylvania for the Coursera course on Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society.2013 I earned a Statement of Accomplishment signed by Jeffrey Leek of Johns Hopkins University for completing the on-line course Data Analysis. I gave a presentation on Data Analysis in Linux to the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (PLUG). I earned a Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction signed by Wendell Porter of the University of Florida for the Coursera course on Global Sustainable Energy: Past, Present and Future. I become a Co-Organizer for Math Counts. I earned a Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction signed by Arnold Weinstein of Brown University for the Coursera course on Fiction of Relationship. I earned a Statement of Accomplishment signed by Jonathan Tomkin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the Coursera course on Introduction to Sustainability. I earned a certificate for successfully completing for the UTAustinX course 1.01x: Energy 101 on the edX platform.2014 I earned an Honor Code Certificate for the UTAustinX course UT.9.01x Effective Thinking Through Mathematics on the edX platform. I earned an Certificate for the Santa Fe Institute course Introduction to Complexity (Spring, 2014) with Melanie Mitchell on the Complexity Explorer platform. I am a guest on the TV program Conversations with Harold Channer (Part 1 and Part 2). I write an Addendum to the conversation to expand on several points discussed.2015 I am a guest on the Internet Radio program Science 2.0: Science for the Rest of Us - Math Counts Meetup with host Joseph Heard. Listen to our 05/09/2015 podcast here. In collaboration with Jeannie Moberly, I publish Perspectives on Borges' Library of Babel in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Bridges 2015 conference and give a presentation on Perspectives on Borges' Library of Babel as part of our joint work on Harmonic Perspective. I earn a Statement of Accomplishment for the course Modern Contemporary American Poetry, Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania on the Coursera platform.Making the World Work: The Pursuit of Humanity's Option for SuccessLike most of my fellow Earthians, I am concerned about how to make theworld work better. There are many issues that I care about such asdemocracy,energy,the environment,globalization,education, and the problem of violence to name but a few.Here I will document my thinking about what needs to be done for Humanityto achieve its option for success.The challenge before us is tremendous. Buckminster Fullerargued that our choice is between utopia and oblivion. Fullerdocumented that Humanity now has sufficient know-how to make goodour option to succeed:we can substantially solve our most pressing problems. Recentcrises remind us that the option of oblivion is continually before us.The steady stream of religiously- and politically-motivated violence,the widespread availability of the instruments of destruction, and thecontinuing deterioration of the environment give us pause and remind usthat Universe is willing and able to revoke our species' right to survive and may do so at any moment.I think our survival depends and will forever depend on the Integrityof each individual human being to act in support of eternallyregenerative Universe . The balance hangs on the choices that eachindividual citizen makes to resolve or mitigate the complex of problems(large and small) that threaten the effective operation and regenerationof the life support systems on Spaceship Earth. It is up to each ofus individually ... We have the power! Our dailychoices determine if Universe will extend its grant to Humanity of the right of survival for one more day. Therefore, it is ourresponsibility as individuals to dare to do what little we can to steerthe world closer to omni-success and away from the brink of oblivion.We can make a difference. We cansucceed. We must succeed as the alternative is oblivion.But it will be touch-and-go every day.Please consider what you can do to support eternally regenerativeUniverse.My own working assumption of why we are here is that we are here aslocal-Universe information-gatherers and that we are given access to thedivine design principles so that we can therefrom objectively inventinstruments and tools -- e.g., the microscope and the telescope --with which to extend all sensorial inquiring regarding the rest ofthe to-the-naked-eye-invisible, micro-macro Universe, because humanbeings, tiny though we are, are here for all the local-Universe information-harvesting and cosmic-principle-discovering, objectivetool-inventing, and local-environment-controlling as local Universeproblem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerativeUniverse.-- R. Buckminster FullerIntegrityIntegrity is the most continually importantissue in human affairs. We must, each of us, persevere to consider andre-consider our values and the value of our actions. Integrity implieshonesty ... honesty with oneself and with others. Integrity impliestruth: being true to the facts of experience and true to oneselfand true to others including all Humanity, our Earth-Ocean-Air World, Universe,and God. Integrity requires consideration andre-consideration of the whole and all of the parts and their synergeticinterrelationships. Total, complete integrity is impossible for finitehumans to fully achieve. For human beings, Integrity is a never endingprocess requiring diligence, discipline, dedication, and continualre-dedication.The following is a list of web sites that address the issue of Integrityfrom a number of perspectives that seem to me to be supportive of thesuccess of Humans in Universe:The success of all humanity can be accomplished only by a terrestriallycomprehensive, technologically competent, design revolution. This revolutionmust develop artifacts where energy-use efficiency not only occasions theartifacts' spontaneous adoption by humanity, but also occasions theinadvertent, unregretted abandonment and permanent obsolescence of sociallyand economically undesirable viewpoints, customs and practices.-- Buckminster FullerThe essential message of Fuller's design science is that human beingshave access to the design laws of Universe, and a responsibility to use theextraordinary phenomenon of mind to discover and apply such principles. Ourfunction is problem-solving. Synergetics, the discipline behind Fuller'smore-with-less philosophy, above all encourages us to experiment. Thismaterial is superbly suited to nurture and enhance creativity, demanding bothnumerical rigor and intuitive leaps. ...A design science revolution is imperative.-- Amy EdmondsonI maintain a references and resource pagefor the Design Science Revolution.Girls' EducationAccording to UNICEF's State of World's Children 2004 "Girls' education:There can be no excuses. Education is the most effective tool availableto promote global development".A list of resources on Girls' EducationRight now, the crisis in public safety is the most critical issuefacing all Earthians (the human capability to destroy is tremendous anddifficult but necessary to control). In my view the problem with boththe "war on terror" and the terrorists themselves is that violence isseen as an effective means to their ends. Experience since September11th corroborates the observation, that violence generally begets moreviolence.The recent calls to war of the leaders of India, Israel, the USA, andNorth Korea serve to further jeopardize the security of the planetas a whole. We need a sound, incisive, effective, comprehensivelyconsiderate path toward security.Linux -- An Operating System for Business and HumanityLinux has tremendous stability,power, and flexibility; it is ideal for business applications.I knew that Linux would become a winning system as early as 1994 andworked hard to master it thoroughly. I think Linux's most important strengthsare its open source licensingand its world-around, Internet-connected, cooperative, community-baseddevelopment approach. This vibrant community from which Linux emerged andto which it gives strength and support is unique for an industrial tool.I have supported the Philadelphia Area Linux communityin several ways. First, with my stint as UNIX SIG leaderat The Philadelphia AreaComputer Society (PACS). Then with the organization of Philadelphia Linux Users Group(PLUG). Finally, with the formation of PhiladelphiaArea Debian Society (PADS).The Linux consulting practice which I started in 1995 has expandedto tackle ever more ambitious projects via a pioneering company formedin 1999 and named LinuxForceInc. LinuxForce is a leading technology services providerspecializing in the development, implementation, management andsupport of Linux-based systems, with a particular expertise in DebianGNU/Linux and Ubuntu. In 2009, LinuxForce launched a new website Remote Responder to explain itsservices to provide systems maintenance monitoring with support emergency coverage. In conjunction with the educational effortin support of our the Remote Responder services, we launched a new blogon Managing FOSS for BusinessResults (where FOSS is the acronym for Free and Open Source Software.Statement on the Use of Linux in Small BusinessI advocate using Linux in enterprising smallbusinesses. I contend that Linux provides tools for small businessesto build competitive advantage in their niche markets. Since Linux andit's main distributions are freely available in source form, the motivatedentrepreneur can launch her business without the overhead of evaluatingillions of commercial offerings (many of whichwon't do exactly what will be required anyway). Instead one canfocus on integrating (and, if necessary, modifying) pre-existingLinux tools to meet needs. This is the power of theUnix toolkit approach to software: each software tool is designed to work synergetically with other tools . Once onelearns how to use software as a tool, one will be frustrated by systemsthat try to do everything in one big application(one of the more extreme ideas along this line being the web browser asan operating system). Open source software allows the businesspersonthe ability to make custom software relatively easily and relativelyinexpensively. Moreover, when one shares their improvements with therest of the Linux community, they will get helpful feedback about howto improve the system further in a mutually cooperative feedback loop.For more information on unexpected occurrences of cooperation see Robert Axelrod'sTheEvolution of Cooperation.The Debian ProjectDebian is a Linux distribution,i.e., a collection of software based around the Linux kernelpre-configured for ease of installation, administration, and use.I have found Debian to be relatively easy to configure and upgrade(upgradeability is the biggest strength of Debian over other Linuxdistributions including Red Hat which is IMO much inferior in thisregard). Hence Debian has become the cornerstone of my Linux use.Debianis a volunteer run project (there are presently some 1000 people workingon Debian). Debian's open development make it very valuable to smallbusiness. First, since all of the Debian software comes with full sourcecode, one can relatively easily fix any bugs that are important to yourbusiness (no need to wait around for the vendor to fix them!). Secondly,if a package is crucial to your business and the current maintainer istoo busy to fix a bug, someone on staff can volunteer to make an interimrelease or perhaps take over maintenance of said package. In this wayall of the important software gradually gravitates to developers whosebusiness depends on the reliability of that software. I think thisprocess of gravitation to the competent, concerned developers is one ofthe reasons Debian has become so stable. Finally, one can monitor theprogress of development and contribute to the direction of the systemby participating in some of Debian's numerous mailing lists. In sum,Debian gives small businesses the software leverage they need to beextra competitive.My contributions to the Linux community My company, LinuxForce maintains a time line of Debian milestones and noteworthy news, and an explanation as to why Debian is so significant. In 1999, I started the Philadelphia Area Debian Society which supports Debian in the Philadelphia Area. PADS meets on the third Wednesday of the month. I continue to work closely with the Philadelphia Linux Users Group (PLUG) since I helped organize it in 1995. We usually get good turnouts with at least 15 people attending. PLUG meets on the first Wednesday of each month. Afterward we usually adjourn to a local eatery to socialize. I wrote an awk script script to process the logs for the Livingston, Merit and Cistron implementations of Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) specified in RFC 2138 and Radius Accounting in RFC 2139. Several similar scripts are available, but most of them have several shortcomings. Thanks to Edward S. Marshall for his major improvements to my original version! Until early in the 2000s, the most flexible SMTP (mail) transport software available was sendmail. Sendmail used to have frequent security holes. Back in the mid-1990s, I found a way to configure sendmail that avoids many security problems. Note: I no longer use this approach since it is not followed by the Debian sendmail package and because sendmail is better maintained now there is no need for these measures like there were in 1996. For three years (from December 1993 through December 1996) I was the Unix SIG leader at The Philadelphia Area Computer Society (PACS). In that capacity I wrote 29 articles for their monthly newsletter. I prepared an annotated index of my 29 articles in The Databus. When I worked for Net Access, a local Internet Service Provider, I wrote a document entitled Connecting to Net Access with Linux which I no longer maintain. It may still be useful to Linux users trying to establish a SLIP or PPP account to an ISP. The general Linux ISP-Hookup HOWTO may be of equal or greater use. I once maintained a number of packages for Debian GNU/Linux. I continue to submit bug reports and offer help and encouragement as much as possible. I have a very old list of Linux Links at https://www.CJFearnley.com/lynx_bookmarks.html#Linux. BuckminsterFuller -- an Inspirational Voice in my life!I have read almost everything Bucky ever published as well asmuch that has been written about him in the late 1980s and early1990s. I have built many geometrical models to investigate hissynergetics(a mathematical/physical/philosophical system about the shape of thinkingand the nature of Universe). Fuller's philosophy and values have stronglyinfluenced my own. Fundamentally, I think one needs to puzzle thingsout for oneself. So I mostly stopped reading the Fuller literaturein the mid-1990s. Instead, I've immersed myself in the complexity oflife's problems: How to make the world better? How to eat? And so on. Philosophy if not mechanically applied is worthless -- torephrase something I remember Fuller once wrote.I maintain the Buckminster Fuller FAQwhich I started compiling in the early 1990s. Thesource is written in SGML and hasbeen converted to plain text,PDF, LaTeX,postscript, and lyxby the SGML-Tools package.The following older versions of the FAQ are available in SGML sourceformat only: v.1.1, 1 August 1998,v.1.2, 1 April 1999, andv.1.3.0, 10 May 1999.I maintain a list of Buckminster FullerResources on the Internet that are relevant to his work.In 2002, I begin work to form the Synergetics Collaborativea new organization to build the Synergetics field of study as developedby R. Buckminster Fuller.On 5 March 2003, I presented a "10 minute" talkLinux and Synergetics at thePLUG meeting.On 6 October 2002, I presented these two papers to a gatheringon Synergetics in Falls Church, VA. Synergetics and Linux The Search for an Algebra or Calculus for SynergeticsIn 1994, I generated the following images of basicpolyhedra using POV-Ray:Tetrahedron,Octahedron,Icosahedron (vertex view),Icosahedron (face view),Cube or Hexahedron,Cube Tetrahedron,Cube in Rhombic Dodecahedron,Icosahedron in Cube,Rhombic Dodecahedron,Star Tetrahedron,Octahedron in a Tetrahedron,Truncated Ocatahedra,Vector Equilibrium.In 1995, I make these Geodesic Spheres usingdome.In 1991, My essay ReadingSynergetics: Some Tips was published inTrimtab.I've been thinking about how 19 human beings could so severely hate thatthey would so coldly give their lives. An American, Nathan Hale, said "Iregret that I have but one life to give to my country." The 19 attackersof September 11th were so convinced of their case against the USA thatthey took Hale's patriotic sentiment to a new and ghastly level. Why?Why do they hate the USA so much? This question pains me more than any other.As conscientious citizens of Spaceship Earthwe need to address the deeper issues of hatred,violenceand its causes, because the level of hatred on display in New York andWashington on September 11th will not go away with military and policeactions alone.What will it take to rid the world of the type of hatred that fromtime-to-time leads to abhorrent violence?My Favorite Quotes and PoemsIt is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service toyou without diminishing your degrees of freedom?-- Buckminster Fuller search my favorite quotes and poems by keyword, enter a keyword into the following box: approximately historical order): 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40. Here are some pictures of my girlfriend, Jeannie Moberly: 1, 2, 3 (she is the one on the right), 4 (She is the second from the right), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49. I recorded a recitation of Robert Burn's poem "To A Mouse": (2.4MB WAV file) (Text for "To a Mouse"). Gov. Howard Dean's speech The Great American Restoration provides an incisive vision for the type of restoration that we all intuitively know America needs. Dean's fast growing support is the result of his powerful vision, his energy and dedication to restoring American values, and his talent in expressing his salient message clearly, strongly and succinctly. My tendency is to be apolitical: to focus on what we can do to make the world better and not about convincing others about how to make our government better. But I feel strongly enough about restoring the American values of financial strength through fiscal responsibility, health care that no one can take away, responsible stewardship of our land and natural resources, leading in the world community and not becoming a new Rome, and making the American flag stand for freedom and justice for all, all around the world. Dean's principled, pragmatic, unique voice is already changing the tenor of debate in this country to stand for these important values. His message resonates very strongly. For these reasons I am endorsing the Howard Dean for America campaign. Several famous people share the day of anniversary of their birth with me including Joan Baez, Simone de Beauvoir and Richard Nixon. These Apples were made based on code written by John Kirk. My favorite Edgar Allan Poe story is Mellonta Tauta. I like Poe's argument that the way of Intuition is the true path to knowledge unlike "the one of creeping and the one of crawling". Poe's argument that "a perfect consistency must be an absolute truth" reminds me of Fuller's definition of Universe and his definition of God as the intellectual integrity operative in Universe. I like hiking the Horse-Shoe Trail. I use lynx to browse the Web (for the most part). I like lynx because (except when I'm looking at geometry, architecture or some other inherently visual material), I simply want information and I want it fast. And lynx is fast. But I'm also using it to help maintain my web pages and to experiment with HTTP and HTML. Good web designers develop their sites so that they are accessible to ALL users. There are two other pages that advocate this theme further: The Dehanced for Lynx page at http://world.std.com/~adamg/dehanced.html and The Campaign for a Non Browser Specific WWW page at http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/. Finally, here are my lynx bookmark references (poorly organized, sorry). A webalizer report of my web site activity is at https://www.CJFearnley.com/stats/webalizer. The Alternatives to Marriage Project expresses my view that legal documents do not make for successful life partnerships. For many, it is liberating to be unmarried and proud of it. The problem of feral cats requires vigilence. A Report on Trap/Alter/Release Programs shows that the most humane solution is to trap feral cats, "fix" them and re-release them into the "wild". In general I am impressed by the Feral Cat Coalition's humane approach to the problem of feral cats. Save the songbirds! When I was an ISP consultant I wrote a web page about Community-Oriented Internet Service Providers. I currently live in PA-Senate, 26, PA-7, PA-164. My 1998 r sum is available in four formats: LaTeX, TeX DVI, postscript, and text. My old .plan tells a bit more about my general life plan and projects circa 1997. Do Enjoy! Emergency-only cell phone (please try home office unless you know that I'm travelling): (610)931-4529 Latitude 39.956061 North, Longitude 75.262670 West of prime meridian. OpenStreetMap has a map of 240 Copley Road, Google has one, Google has a satellite image too. Maps at MSN also provides a map (39 57 23.58 North 75 15 52.99 West.). MapQuest provides another map of 240 Copley Road. Follow CJ Fearnley on Twitter CJ Fearnley at Facebook CJ Fearnley at LinkedIn My GPG key (for sending me encrypted e-mail or to verify an electronic signature):-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux)Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.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=sbDM-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To send me e-mail use this address: cjf@CJFearnley.com.

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