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Riots: It Will Get Worse
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
No Paradise
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
Typical Breakage: Adobe Flashplayer 10 Beta for Linux 64-bit
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
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
Tinkering: Mail Servers on the Desktop
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
Green Deities
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
CentOS: KDE Upgrade the Hard Way
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
I’m Not Alone on Rolling Release
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
Suck It Up
There are in this life a great many things affecting you which you can’t change. You might try, but if your attempts affect too much other people, it will simply create more and bigger problems. Do I need to raise … Continue reading
Vignettes 1
A collection of small thoughts. They are connected, but can be considered individually. 1. The Democratic Party was hijacked about four decades ago. It had been a fairly conservative, rural oriented bunch of old men, but became home to American … Continue reading