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Personal Rants

Is the Earth Spherical or Flat? Part 2

Well I promised a part 2 to this article, but this will be more of a rant than a discussion.  You see, the more and more videos I watched, the more and more I got discouraged.  Not that my beliefs of a spherical earth were being torn away, but because of the idiocy I experienced in watching the videos… I will explain a few of these now.

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The star that changes color:

It is a known belief in the Flat Earth model that there is no space, and that all the starts in the sky are simply some source of light put there by the creator.  …

Personal Rants

Is the Earth Spherical or Flat? Part 1

Ok, before you start laughing your ass off at the thought of a Flat Earth, this movement seems to be gaining ground over the last few months.  But it seems to bring up more questions than answers, and unlike most of the videos you will find on Youtube, there is no 100% proof the world is flat.

Before we get started, we need to figure out what that Flat Earth Model is.  This is no easy feat.  I have seen dozens of videos on the topic and have read may web pages on certain topics. Here is Wikipedia’s description of the Flat Earth’s model.…

Personal

Happy New Year, Year In Review, And First post in 3 months… SRSLY!

I can’t believe I let my blog slide.  I have been so busy over the last few months I haven’t had a chance to sit down and write a good long post. So here it is, my First post of 2016, wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR (a few days late) and I will start the new year with a little Year in Review post.

hnyNow before I get into too much trouble.  Yes I am using my Bitstrips Character for my logo and images… I mean it looks just like me, what better way to add some flare to my site.  …

Linux

Custom Linux Bash Prompt

Ok, so I had some downtime at work.  By this I meant an evening shift where absolutely nothing was going on.  So I decided to play with one of my Virtual Machines.  My Setup at work consists of my Laptop, a USB Monitor, and a standard VGA Monitor, so 3 screen in total.  On one screen I usually have a full screen instance of Kali Linux going via VirtualBox.

I found two really cool sites called Bashrcgenerator.com and Ezprompt.net.  I used both of them to create my new user bash prompts:

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The reason for the two sites is they encode each part differently.  …

Personal

What happened to MatthewKoster.com?

I have decided to shut down my old site for now, kind of hard to keep more than one blog going with the projects I am currently working on. Not to mention again I have put off my Metro project as I realized a lot of the Metro stations in Montreal, really aren’t that spectacular. So I have decided to forward all of my old sites traffic to my more popular site ConsideredNormal.com.

It’s not much of a bump mind you, MatthewKoster.com was only getting about 100 hits a month, which is only 3.3% of the traffic ConsideredNormal.com currently generates.…

Gaming

Return to World of Warcrack, I mean Warcraft…

I caved… after years of being way I started a free account, maxed to level 20, and decided to buy back into it to level further.  I hopped out around the time of  Wrath of the Lich King, so about 2008/09.  I jumped out because they changed so much of the game that it wasn’t fun any more.  Over the years I hoped on and off while playing the free version, and I sort of got to liking the way the game is, being able to fly in most areas (Seems the areas released in the Burning Crusade are still to be updated) is pretty cool especially when you can boost a character to 90.…

Technology

How to change the SSH port on ESXi 6.0

Every once in a while I hit a topic that I just can’t find any information on. This happens to be one of those topics. If you want to change the SSH Port on ESXi 5.x, no problem, VMWare provides you with Knowledgebase article on that. And someone made it a little clearer in a blog post. But no where could I find any procedure that worked for ESXi 6.0, so here I am writing this article, as after 5 hours of messing around and not being able to login, having to reset the server setting each time, I feel the need to share my finding with everyone, hoping that it will easy the burden on those looking to find answers.…

Personal Rants

Back on Facebook, but not without issues…

So after two weeks of shutting off my access to Facebook, I find myself logging back in. It seems to remove your digital fingerprint from the net is almost impossible. If you are an android user like myself, and a Facebook user, chances are, on several apps you have installed, you have logged in with Facebook. This presents a problem once you delete that account. You cannot re-create the account with the same email, as its already registered. And creating a new account also means you have to start everything over.

So now I am back on Facebook, and trying to clean it up.…

Linux Personal Technology

Considered Normal? has moved to Vultr

To the untrained eye, nothing has changed for the site. Only one small detail is missing. You will notice that the Links in the sidebar to my friends and family are gone… not by choice, seems the new versions of WordPress have removed this feature, and since I didn’t bring over the database, pre-existing links (only was to enable the links in newer versions) didn’t carry over. A minor issue.

What people may notice however is how blazing fast the site is. The move to Vultr was done for a few reasons. The first being that the database on the old site was having hichups.…

Personal Rants

Today is the day I left Facebook

So it is official, I have left Facebook for good.  Yes I will miss the conversations with some awesome people that I have met over the years.  Yes I will miss seeing all the goofy posts, and sharing them just the same. Yes, I will even miss the hours I spend browsing the feeds. I am not leaving Facebook because of Facebook (although the 4am game notifications were kinda annoying).  No, I am not leaving the (Anti)Social Media Mega Giant for any reason that the could have caused.  I am leaving it because I have become more security conscious.

Over the last several months, Internet Security has been a hot topic as many popular sites across the web are being hacked.  …