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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Traveling the Internet, Speaking Computerese
Computer ministry requires a vision. In my case, the computers are hardly the point. It’s just a way to get close to people. I travel the region of human space called the Internet. I’m not all that interested in the … Continue reading
Oklahoma Prisons Break(down)
I live in Oklahoma, and my son works in one of the numerous prison facilities in this state. It’s not that I have an interest, so much as I know intricately the details of this idiocy. What we have here … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged economics, government, law, resistance, survival
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Just What We Need, a Regional Oil Spill
It’s not as if there is something inherently evil about off-shore drilling for oil. What is evil is the choice to underplay the risks for the sake of profit. It’s cheaper to lie, and pay others to lie, about what … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, government, nature, survival
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Lucid Lynx: Many Small Breakages
After a couple of days playing again with Lucid, I discovered auto-mounting removable media is broken. It takes two or three tries just for a simple USB memory stick. Music CDs are not properly handled by any of a number … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, linux, redhat, ubuntu
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Thunderbird: Another Good Idea Trashed
Decided to test drive Thunderbird on my Lucid Lynx system. Big, big mistake. Upon trying to configure my first account, the application grabbed my details and aggressively ran off with an automatic configuration. But it got things wrong. When I … Continue reading
RHEL 6.0 Beta Catastrophic X-server Crash
I’m giving it a rest. When I tried to open my PySolFC game — compiled on the system — it took down the X server and the system froze. I’ve seen this behavior before in Ubuntu a couple of releases … Continue reading
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Getting a Real Whois Client on RHEL 6
It may not be broken, but the default Jwhois package on RHEL and friends is not easy to use, and the results aren’t satisfactory. Why it is they dropped the original stand-alone client is beyond me. I can’t find anything … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, internet, linux, redhat
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RHEL 6.0-Beta: Replace That Glacial OpenJDK
Java on RHEL 6.0 is in dire need of assistance. I understand the issues of patent encumbrance, but for the average desktop user, it’s just not that important. If something better is available, we use it. The bundled OpenJDK on … Continue reading
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RHEL 6.0-Beta Additional Multimedia Stuff
Note: The linked text instructions are sorely out of date and no longer work with the current release or RHEL 6, nor will it work with the Beta-2 release before it. I’m betting it will not work with either of … Continue reading
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Greece and More: What to Expect
Vox Day has it covered well. Without dragging in the mysterious Illuminati, he explains the real conspiracy in terms of function, not labels. There exists a known coterie of wealth and power in the world who don’t love Jesus and … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, economics, government, survival
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