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LCD/LED TV with RHEL 6 and Friends
Because of my pastoral heart, I want to save others the sorrow of having to repeat my labors needlessly. In this case, we are running Scientific Linux 6 on a recent Dell desktop with an Intel graphics chipset, and no … Continue reading
The Wrong Path
Got an illegal robo-call on my cell phone yesterday from “Prophet Manasseh Jordan” which was basically an appeal for donations. Manasseh Jordan is the son of Bishop E. Bernard Jordan, and is linked to T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, Steven Furtick, … Continue reading
Eating My Words
Pardon me while I walk my talk. I have to eat my words. The previous post in this space was about the joys of Cygwin, a POSIX emulator which made it possible to run something like Linux on your Windows … Continue reading
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My Last KDE Rant
This is the last time I’ll address this issue, because everyone knows the KDE developers and fans aren’t going to listen anyway. However, I’m pretty sure what follows is the sentiments shared by everyone the developers and fans are trying … Continue reading
Web of Deceit
I hear a lot of folks crying about advertising on web pages. One camp says they’ve gotten too aggressive, to the point you can’t access any content unless you permit the most egregious demands for placing tracking cookies, tracking webbugs, … Continue reading
Elitism and the GUI
As a group, the people who write most of the code for Open Source GUIs have no idea what typical users want. I’ve noted before the strength of Open Source is those who code can do anything they like. That’s … Continue reading
Do What I Say, Not What I Do
Granted, the current Hollywood moguls are not the same people who built it, but they most certainly do know where it all came from. I missed this nugget the other day, until it showed up on an investment website: Over … Continue reading
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CentOS 6: Broken Dictionary
On CentOS 6, the GNOME Dictionary is broken. Apparently, I’m not the only one who has noticed this. Unfortunately, I’ve not seen where anyone posted a proper fix. It worked fine in both RHEL 6 and SL 6 on this … Continue reading
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Taming the Beast: CentOS 6.2 and Inspiron 1525 Laptop
We all know Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the basis for both CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). The differences are largely cosmetic from the user’s point of view, in which the clones are legally required to change only the … Continue reading
CentOS 6.2 Laptop: Changes
The Latitude will not be available. I’ll be testing CentOS on my Inspiron 1525. I am downloading via Bittorrent as I type this (and sampling the experience of dialup speeds for my browser in the process). Opera’s built-in torrent handler … Continue reading