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Testing openSUSE 11.1
I’ll be installing that this evening, so I won’t have time to post much.
I’m Dreaming of a TUI
Unless you count XHTML, I don’t write code. I lack the mental framework to be any good at something like that. Feel free to extrapolate from there I’m also not smart enough to dress myself, but the point is, whatever … Continue reading
She Doesn’t Get It
Jojo Moyes says the scientists are wrong. When their research indicates chick-flix (“romantic comedies”) raise unrealistic expectations, which expectations cause needless conflicts in relationships, she says they don’t realize women know the difference between fiction and reality. Such stories are … Continue reading
Morgellon’s Disease: Shut Up and Eat That GMO
You aren’t supposed to know. The good folks at Monsanto could care less about your well being, they simply want your money. And everyone else’s money, too. So they used DNA technology to modify food purely for market gains. If … Continue reading
We Deserve to Lose
We are accountable for commands from God as found in the Bible. It helps if you have some grasp of the context in which that Bible was written. Jumping into the narrative with Western philosophical assumptions will simply get you … Continue reading
Retirement Will Retire
Used to, only the wealthiest folks retired. Others simply died working, or got too infirm to make their own way, and moved in with family so they could die in peace. Most folks didn’t talk about retirement. A few got … Continue reading
Marketing Equals Lying
Back when Fred Reed attacked pitchmen, I rejoiced at the good sense he conveyed. In the process, he offers a very graphic lesson in economics: The Industrial Revolution was the real villain. Supply — of virtually everything — outstripped demand. … Continue reading
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Half-right: Linux Complaints
Actually, he’s only got one valid complaint: big projects are never fixed, they just keep releasing new versions with a whole new set of bugs. The GNOME Desktop has never ever been crash free since the birth of 2.x series. … Continue reading
openSUSE: Linux for the Lazy
There was a time when I would spend hours, even days, exploring all the ins-n-outs, chasing down the various slick tricks and secrets of an operating system. I’ve run a half-dozen brands of Linux and four different versions of FreeBSD. … Continue reading
All Too Soon
As mentioned previously, all this prognostication is just a guessing game. But you’d have to be completely blind to think we aren’t going to experience significant misery here in the US, and quite likely the whole world. One of my … Continue reading