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Small Adaptations: Printer Shopping
I’m cheap. If low-priced junk will do the job, that’s what I’m buying. Further, if I can find it below retail, that’s where I’m going. With each newer system I get, it’s harder and harder to make my old Panasonic … Continue reading
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Great Ride in the Snow
There are good rides, and I have plenty of them. Most of my 10-milers into town are good, the rest are pretty decent. Only a couple in the four months so far have been very unpleasant. Then there are great … Continue reading
The Non-hobby User: Linux Distro Review
This will become a point of reference for future comments which seek to promote this or that favored Linux distribution. People tend to read some of my blog posts in isolation from the others on the same topic. Not much … Continue reading
Progress on the Fitness Trail
Some readers may be aware I had been working on carving a fitness trail through some woods near my home. The plan is to create a large loop over varied terrain, suitable to walking, running or cycling, but too narrow … Continue reading
Typical Breakage: Adobe Flashplayer 10 Beta for Linux 64-bit
Actually, I’m not poking at Adobe this time. Say what you want about how Flash has ruined the Net, and I’ll agree. But people expect to have it working. The breakage here is that Firefox never has been much good … Continue reading
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Vignettes 1
A collection of small thoughts. They are connected, but can be considered individually. 1. The Democratic Party was hijacked about four decades ago. It had been a fairly conservative, rural oriented bunch of old men, but became home to American … Continue reading
Posting from Elinks
Just testing how well I can do this all from Elinks, the plain text browser. Lately I have been somewhat disappointed at sites which have so completely changed, you can no longer view them from a plain text browser. This … Continue reading
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CentOS Fix: GNOME Mahjongg Scores on “Difficult” Level
This is pretty minor and doesn’t warrant much discussion. When you play Mahjongg on the default game called “Difficult,” upon completion of that game a window pops up saying your score qualifies for the Top Ten. However, the window is … Continue reading
Return to Sanity: CentOS Is Home
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
openSUSE 11.1: Follow-up
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