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Marcel Gagné

Writer and Free Thinker at Large: Musings on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Linux, FOSS, Science & Technology, Religion, Politics, Consciousness, Philosophy, VR, Gaming, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind!

Author: Marcel Gagné

Ruggedly handsome science, Linux, & technology geek. Writer and Free Thinker at Large. The "Cooking With Linux" guy. Occasionally opinionated. Always confused. Loves wine, food, music, and the occasional single malt Scotch. Long time columnist for Linux Journal, LinuxPro Magazine, Ubuntu User Magazine, SysAdmin, and others. Author of six books including "Linux System Administration: A User's Guide" and the "Moving to Linux" series of books. Promoter, advocate, and evangelist for Free and Open Source Software on radio, television, and YouTube.

Taking Over The United States

Posted onJanuary 2, 2014Leave a comment

The year is certainly starting off with a good dose of insanity. Yes, America . . . we Canadians have been planning the takeover of the United States all along, and Obama is just another Canadian puppet. We already rule your Read More …

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Happy New Year!

Posted onJanuary 1, 2014Leave a comment

It has been suggested that we make 2014 an amazing year. What if we just make it an amusing year? Or a slightly better than average year? Or what if we save energy and resources by recycling an old year that Read More …

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Happy New Year!

Posted onJanuary 1, 2014Leave a comment

It has been suggested that we make 2014 an amazing year. What if we just make it an amusing year? Or a slightly better than average year? Or what if we save energy and resources by recycling an old year that Read More …

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Toying With The Idea

Posted onDecember 23, 2013Leave a comment

It's Christmas; a time of peace and joy . . . of good will to men and women the world over. It's also a time of forgiveness and everyone gets a second chance. Even a scumbag like Johnny.  Get it Read More …

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Quick fix for Zimbra Zero Day exploit

Posted onDecember 17, 2013Leave a comment

There's nothing like a good zero day exploit that targets one of your busy servers to get your attention. When the fix involves taking down a server with a few hundred email accounts, you start to panic just a little. Read More …

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Apocalyptical : Tracking Apocalypses Since 2013

Posted onNovember 15, 2013Leave a comment

I want to create a Website, unless one already exists and maybe even if it does, that tracks upcoming apocalypses (or is it apocalypsii?) so that we can turn the end of the world into a spectator sport of sorts. Read More …

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Open Scripture Project – Making the Perfect God

Posted onOctober 24, 2013Leave a comment

Today, I want to introduce you to the "Open Scripture Project". OSP will be a community built religion with a git repository for changes. The purpose of OSP is to give us all the chance to make the perfect god.  We will do Read More …

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Ultra pranks and ultra reality

Posted onOctober 23, 2013Leave a comment

I'd almost forgotten about this until somebody commented on a post I had made regarding the following video. In case you haven't seen it, the video in question is done in the spirit of Candid Camera and Just for Laughs, Read More …

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Shell Scripting vs Programming, part 3 – Special Things

Posted onOctober 22, 2013Leave a comment

When you talk about shell programming, or any kind of programming for that matter, you are going to deal with variables on different levels. In the shell, you have the built-in variables you saw earlier, and you can assign variables Read More …

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Medibuntu Is No More

Posted onOctober 21, 2013Leave a comment

If you are running either any of the Buntus (e.g. ubuntu, kubuntu, lubuntu), including Linux Mint, you may have had Medibuntu in you repositories for things like the DVD decription library (libdvdcss2) and other proprietary codecs. Medibuntu was not a distribution Read More …

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