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Geek Wars: Overriding RHEL Defaults in Vim Plugins
Between the RHEL package managers and the upstream providers for Vim, the default formatting options for some file types is wrong and exceedingly difficult to override. (I’m using Scientific Linux 6.0, but they deny changing the Vim packages provided by … Continue reading
Rampant Deception
The officials and news outlets have been steadily lying to us about the danger from the nuclear reactors in Japan. The idea was to protect GE’s stock, since they designed and built these failing reactors. The US government has been … Continue reading
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GNU for Win32
Did you know a large number of GNU Open Source command line utilities are available for Windows? See this list for what’s available. Under Unix/Linux, there are certain command line goodies I use quite often. Nothing in Windows Land comes … Continue reading
Remarkable: Open Source Project That Cares
Let’s consider the Trinity Desktop Environment. Okay, I admit it’s people who actually care. That’s the point: Open Source people usually don’t care about people, though they claim otherwise. As noted here ad nauseum, most Open Source developers don’t understand … Continue reading
Xiphos on SL 6
Just a few quick notes here. There is as yet no repository offering Xiphos and Sword for SL. You can easily Yum the Clucene and development package from SL repositories. I decided to grab Sword and Xiphos SRPMs from the … Continue reading
You May Be a Computer Elitist Snob
I love people. They are far more important to me than anything else on this plane of existence. When complete strangers ask me to help with their computers, I’m glad for the chance to do something good for another human. … Continue reading
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Open Source GUIs Are Awful
I’ve been studying this pretty closely for about fifteen years now, and I find the development of the Open Source GUI, particularly on Linux, is really depressing. I no longer suggest Linux to folks because I care too much about … Continue reading
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Stuxnet: Propaganda Coup from the Ashes of Failure
I’ve been watching the news about the Stuxnet worm, as a lot people have. On the one hand, it seemed to have been a really fine design, say some. But others said it was full of flaws, when you really … Continue reading
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Blocking Animated GIF Images with User CSS (Updated)
Warning: The instructions here are obsolete in that Blink (the engine underneath Chrome) does not support user style sheets. If you find animations a problem, the single best solution is to use Slimjet, an alternative browser built on Blink/Chrome. In … Continue reading
Don’t Use Google Chrome Browser on Linux (Updated)
Update: After more research, this whole issue turns on the lack of code in the Webkit engine to support stopping animated GIFs. I always included the Chrome extension “Pause! Pause! Pause!” because I cannot read text on a page when … Continue reading
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