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SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys
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“We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts”
― Rory Miller
― Rory Miller
“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
“People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances by law. The Gettysburg Address would probably have been largely incomprehensible to a 1985 audience.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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