Monthly Archives: January 2009

How Will We Survive?

Posted on January 12, 2009 by ehurst

Economics: The study of human habits, particularly in the aggregate, regarding the exchange of things of value. For the sake of discussion, let’s assume the worst. Governments collapse with the economies and utter anarchy takes over. Split out security concerns … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Craziness

Posted on January 11, 2009 by ehurst

The generic Seamonkey 64-bit download from Mozilla.org runs the new beta 64-bit Flashplayer from Adobe on CentOS. So here we are, CentOS 5.2 for x86_64. I installed the latest beta release of Flashplayer for 64-bit Linux. By “install” I mean … Continue reading →

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Riots: It Will Get Worse

Posted on January 10, 2009 by ehurst

Take a look at the riots in Greece. Just a bunch of hoodlums? Perhaps, but not everything wrong there falls on only one set of shoulders. It is widely established as fact the government of Greece at all levels, as … Continue reading →

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No Paradise

Posted on January 9, 2009 by ehurst

I don’t balk at eating crow. When you don’t take yourself too seriously, you can laugh with those who laugh at you. No sooner do I announce I’ve decided to go with openSUSE 11.0, as less broken than 11.1, and … Continue reading →

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Typical Breakage: Adobe Flashplayer 10 Beta for Linux 64-bit

Posted on January 8, 2009 by ehurst

Actually, I’m not poking at Adobe this time. Say what you want about how Flash has ruined the Net, and I’ll agree. But people expect to have it working. The breakage here is that Firefox never has been much good … Continue reading →

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Searching for the Linux of Mass Appeal

Posted on January 7, 2009 by ehurst

As a computer service volunteer and Linux advocate, how can I get the average computer user to adopt Linux? This has nothing to do with what I happen to like, but what I find actually doing the job. Having to … Continue reading →

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Tinkering: Mail Servers on the Desktop

Posted on January 6, 2009 by ehurst

In my early experience with Linux, I learned The Way for email was to run an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) in the background, a fetching service, and did email from the commandline. My preferred setup was Postfix, Fetchmail and Pine. … Continue reading →

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Green Deities

Posted on January 6, 2009 by ehurst

During the summer of 1979, I got my hands on a copy of the Greenpeace Manifesto, as it existed at the time. The mass-produced photocopy got lost during a subsequent move, and I have not found a copy since then. … Continue reading →

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CentOS: KDE Upgrade the Hard Way

Posted on January 5, 2009 by ehurst

There is one feature of CentOS I dislike very much: the tendency to drag in a lot of 32-bit packages as unnecessary dependencies on a 64-bit system. I found the bundled version of KDE 3.5.4 one of the more badly … Continue reading →

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I’m Not Alone on Rolling Release

Posted on January 4, 2009 by ehurst

I’ll be the first to admit I don’t understand all the technical details, but I find the Autopackage project is trying to overcome the problems I’ve tried to point out: What’s a desktop Linux platform? Why do we need one? … Continue reading →

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