Category Archives: computers

Stumbling Around RHEL 6.0: Printing (Updated)

Posted on December 4, 2010 by ehurst

Way back in the old days of Red Hat, printing was no more difficult than using the supplied RedHat config tool for setting up your LPRng queue. Since the arrival of CUPS, I’ve often felt it continues to be one … Continue reading →

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Building Dillo on Ubuntu Lucid

Posted on November 9, 2010 by ehurst

Dillo is one of those niche projects which has always added something I need. Fast is good, but the primary reason I want it is that compromise between Lynx and friends, and the more graphical mouse-able interface. Given too many … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Going Bad

Posted on October 21, 2010 by ehurst

I’ve been using Chrome on several different OSes the past few months, and have been recommending it to some other folks. In general, it was faster, did Flash objects much better, and so forth. Recently I noticed it uses almost … Continue reading →

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Lynx Web Browser on Win7 (Updated)

Posted on September 23, 2010 by ehurst

This post is a couple years old still getting lots of hits. I now recommend you move the installation within your own Documents folder and work from there. You’ll have to change the paths below to match that, but you’ll … Continue reading →

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Facebook: Virtualizing the Soul

Posted on September 9, 2010 by ehurst

As we watch the death throes of Western Civilization, certain symptoms manifest prominently. As the electronic mesh expands and thickens, with fatter pipes and richer content, so does the shallowness of each connection within the mesh. We can surely speed … Continue reading →

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Medium Destroys the Message

Posted on July 29, 2010 by ehurst

A friend sent a link for me to read. I clicked. The page loaded, then immediately the whole thing was blocked by a Flash window. I couldn’t read the content nor close the window. Granted, I had Flashblock in place, … Continue reading →

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Killer Solitaire Package: PySolFC

Posted on June 27, 2010 by ehurst

For quite some years I have been a fan of PySol. If any particular Linux distro dropped it, I dropped that distro. Eventually it seemed to have disappeared. But no, it was rescued by it’s own fan club, so to … Continue reading →

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Improbable Dreams of Oppression

Posted on June 22, 2010 by ehurst

Governments are typically built by intelligent people, but always slip into the hands of the merely crafty. Precious great people appear in the history of human government. Modern governments are probably worse than ever in this respect. Sometimes we are … Continue reading →

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Not Recommended: openSUSE 11.3

Posted on June 11, 2010 by ehurst

Currently at milestone 7, I highly recommend you avoid openSUSE 11.3 if you plan to boot more than one OS. I tried to install it on one harddrive (PATA/IDE mode), while preserving my RHEL 6.0-Beta install on another (SATA). I … Continue reading →

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KDE 3 and User Care

Posted on May 25, 2010 by ehurst

One of my associates at Open for Business has said far better the same complaint I’ve made for years, proving why he’s the one who actually gets paid to write stuff: One perennial problem with free software is that, because … Continue reading →

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