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Return to Sanity: CentOS Is Home

Posted on December 27, 2008 by ehurst

After a few days of testing Debian Lenny AMD64, I just can’t make it home. Yes, the packages are newer, and once it hits “stable” in the Debian developer cycle, it will be supported for a long time. Still, there … Continue reading →

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Dream Ride: Mass Transit

Posted on December 27, 2008 by ehurst

Thanks to the US military service, I spent quite some years in Europe. I must confess I prefer living there over living in the US, but I could never afford to go back there on my own. I’m not too … Continue reading →

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Debian Lenny: 64-bit Pain

Posted on December 26, 2008 by ehurst

Debian has a different approach to 64-bit hardware. The entire system is 64-bit, and the only way you can run anything 32-bit is in a “jail” — a sort of security sandbox isolated from the system itself. I suppose this … Continue reading →

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Gnomesword from Source

Posted on December 25, 2008 by ehurst

If I can’t get Bible search software for my computer, it’s not a good computer. Neither CentOS, nor any of the other compatible RedHat clones, offer a Gnomesword package for 64-bit. There is one source RPM set, but they were … Continue reading →

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CentOS Desktop: It Can Be Done

Posted on December 24, 2008 by ehurst

CentOS is a free Linux distro built up from the source packages used for making the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux distro. RedHat doesn’t actually sell the Linux software, but sells the support services to keep it all running for businesses … Continue reading →

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The Disaster of “Rolling Release”

Posted on December 23, 2008 by ehurst

I’ve always enjoyed exploring. Every time I’ve moved from one residence to another, I’ve always wandered around my new neighborhood, simply to see what was there. It’s the same with computer technology. I love poking around operating systems. Lately, one … Continue reading →

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Can’t Be Justified

Posted on December 22, 2008 by ehurst

I can’t support this: Israeli Diplomats Prepare Ground for Gaza Action. When the attack comes, I can’t watch. Israel has the upper hand in every way. So much so, they have to provide their own undercover fake terrorists to launch … Continue reading →

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openSUSE 11.1: Follow-up

Posted on December 21, 2008 by ehurst

It’s broken in a lot of places. My Quickcam cannot be made to work, and apparently a lot of other similar devices quit working for other users. There are a handful of other glitches, none major, but just too darned … Continue reading →

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Never Wrong

Posted on December 21, 2008 by ehurst

The alternative and underground news sources are loaded with stories of various plans to permit more and more use of force against ordinary folks. Naturally there are a thousand justifications for all this. Even the Pentagon is now revealing plans … Continue reading →

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openSUSE 11.1: On My Own Terms

Posted on December 20, 2008 by ehurst

Installing from the DVD, I chose the i586 version. All the hardware was detected except my monitor (Dell P1230) and my old dot-matrix printer, naturally. I don’t like the lack of fine control over such things as resolution and paper … Continue reading →

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