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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 6)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) The Chromium extensions we installed do several things. Ghostery and Adblock work together to block the worst advertising. Ghostery may need some fine-tuning so you can use certain features … Continue reading
Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 5)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) First, a pop quiz. You will need a package called “gdebi”; based on the previous lesson, install it as you wish. It will bring with it a few other … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, Chromium, compsec, computers, debian, Google Chrome, linux, technology
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More Virtual War
Our enemy is neither human nor human institutions. I’ve noted in the past the grand overlap between Christian Mysticism and the practice of faith online. Ambition will destroy your work. Our objective is to fight our own fallen nature. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, christian mysticism, computers, economics, human institutions, internet, mysticism, religion
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Slimboat Is Better than Chrome
Update: There have been reports of suspicious activity from Slimboat and Slim browsers. At least one user reported a distinct attempt to download malware coming from the running process. My own experience is that using Slimboat brings on a lot … Continue reading
Tool Shed 3
Systems administrators can be caught up in senseless prejudice, at least as bad as the rest of us. There was a time when hackers used Lynx and other text-only browsers as a major tool for cracking websites and servers. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged adblock, browsers, computers, flashblock, internet, linux, software, technology
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Windows 7: Converting Flash Videos to MP3 Music Files
While some of the same tools are available for both Linux and Windows, there is simply no point learning the command line stuff in converting Flash videos on Windows. The hardest part is learning how to search the cache for … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, computers, music
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Google Censorship
You can Google for censorship and get a lot of information, but you aren’t likely to find much about Google’s own censorship actions. No one should be surprised effective political dissent will get results, and those results aren’t the political … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, government, internet, oppression, propaganda
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Scientific Linux 6: Build Chromium Browser
I couldn’t find a current build for any of the RHEL 6 clones of Chromium, so I did it myself. Short and sweet; if you don’t understand the process of using RPMbuild, you’ll need to read up on that. Get … Continue reading
Whimper: Google Chrome Broken Again (Updated)
You can probably ignore this whiny-gram unless you need a chuckle. I run Scientific Linux 6, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It includes by default a very nice system security package called SELinux. It was designed with the … Continue reading