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CentOS 6: Broken Dictionary
On CentOS 6, the GNOME Dictionary is broken. Apparently, I’m not the only one who has noticed this. Unfortunately, I’ve not seen where anyone posted a proper fix. It worked fine in both RHEL 6 and SL 6 on this … Continue reading
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Tagged centos, computers, redhat, writing
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Technocracy of War, Part 6
The one thing Thad liked most was how they had managed to port almost every GUI application over to a TUI. Thus, while losing some of the buttons and toolbars, the backend was the same for web browser, office suite, … Continue reading
Taming the Beast: CentOS 6.2 and Inspiron 1525 Laptop
We all know Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the basis for both CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). The differences are largely cosmetic from the user’s point of view, in which the clones are legally required to change only the … Continue reading
Technocracy of War, Part 5
For most of that week, Thad poked and prodded Bread OS. There was in the documentation a notice more popular applications would be ported eventually, but the basic set of workstation programs was almost complete. The desktop display was not … Continue reading
Technocracy of War, Part 4
She waited patiently, her paws crossed as she lay in the small patch of sun available in the fenced yard. Once each week, he walked past on the newly paved street which had replaced the gravel. In her mind, the … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, internet, open source, windows
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CentOS 6.2 Laptop: Changes
The Latitude will not be available. I’ll be testing CentOS on my Inspiron 1525. I am downloading via Bittorrent as I type this (and sampling the experience of dialup speeds for my browser in the process). Opera’s built-in torrent handler … Continue reading
Technocracy of War, Part 3
They had moved Pete that very hour to temporary solitary confinement. While it meant missing breakfast, this was one of the saner things, keeping informants away from the general population. In two days, Peter found himself being marched down that … Continue reading
The Technocracy of War: Part 2
For Peter Jimmerson, the war was over — for now. For the past two years he had been in a running battle with some cracker slipping into his servers. This was no simple showboating; the cracker was needling him personally, … Continue reading
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Tagged bsd, computers, government, oppression, resistance
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The Technocracy of War: Part 1 (fiction)
The screens displayed before him were somewhat more colorful than the rest of them, the hundreds throughout the building. Still, it was the same old Bread and Butter, and it was his bread-n-butter. It was the reason he wore one … Continue reading
Let’s Pretend for a Moment I’m an Activist
What is the greatest political threat I see? Our devotion to modern Israel is the single greatest threat to this nation. If I were to take up any political cause, it would be to convince the government to stop pretending … Continue reading
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Tagged oppression, propaganda, religion, scripture
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