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Trusting Microsoft?
Dana Blankenhorn asks What Would Make You Trust Microsoft? Good question. I’ll apply the same standard here as I do to everything else — God’s sense of justice. First, I suppose we should note, as one poster did, there are … Continue reading
XFCE: Less Is More
GTK is a very nice GUI toolkit. GNOME is rickety and parts, if not the whole thing, tend to crash way too much. You may have gotten a stable implementation on your Linux system, as CentOS does, but that’s only … Continue reading
Ubuntu Karmic Koala on Inspiron 545 MT
This is the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. There is little point to running down the entire catalogue. Almost everything works Out of the Box® as we have come to expect from Ubuntu. When it doesn’t is when we have something … Continue reading
Net Justice
God’s justice assumes you’ll do your best to stay out of other peoples’ way, but that their way won’t mean harming you. It’s a never-ending tension and renegotiation. The biggest source of conflict is unrealistic expectations, particularly regarding what God … Continue reading
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Tagged corporations, government, internet, propaganda
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Net Gain of Freedom
Now here’s an idea: Autonet. This, along with a few similar projects around the Net these days, is past due, in my estimation. While the weakest link is probably coming up with autonomous access to the wider global network, I … Continue reading
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Tagged compsec, internet, privacy, resistance
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Denounce Me — I’m Running Windows
This old HP Pavilion 542x was built from cheap parts. The motherboard alone would tell you that: Trigem Imperial. Yeah, the thing is junk, but it’s been running fine since we bought it new. Well, as fine as WinXP Home … Continue reading
Back On the Squeeze Console
I’ve decided I really must have one good console-only system. Since the old Pavilion 542x is hardly much good for GUI stuff, that was where it went. I still have CentOS 5 on the Inspiron for times when I have … Continue reading
While We’re Waiting…
I understand the FDIC 2nd Quarterly Report for 2009 has been staged for release tomorrow. That in itself means nothing, since bureaucracy seldom operates optimally. However, given the situation, waiting until a Thursday may well be a low-level tactical move. … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, freebsd, government, linux
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CentOS 5.3 and ath5k
For a time I ran Etch on my Inspiron 4100 because I kept having trouble with my wifi card on CentOS. While the Backports site offered a recent kernel for Etch, I missed the RedHat world very much. After doing … Continue reading
Web of Lies
God granted humans the facility for speech with one purpose in mind: transmitting truth. Defining truth is covered elsewhere, this is about sharing it. The point is, using your speech to deceive, confuse and manipulate as the end result is … Continue reading