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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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The Debian Experience
I first got acquainted with Debian by using Sarge. It was okay, and I got comfortable with apt and all the other unique things. Etch was truly excellent. I still love it, especially on older hardware. Lenny stunk. I tried … Continue reading
Squeeze on Inspiron 1525
This installation was the most recent Squeeze RC2 release, downloaded just two days before this blog post. If you’ve never installed Debian, please see this detailed guide for installing Squeeze. I used the graphical installation offered on the welcome screen. … Continue reading
No Debian for the Clueless
It crossed my mind I could start a new project. Given Debian was about to release their newest — “Squeeze” 6.0 — and I wanted to install it on my laptop, it seemed I might write a few articles here … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: LibreOffice as Update
Today Red Hat issued a security update for Open Office on all three versions which had it (4, 5, & 6). If you don’t have access to RHN, you would be crazy to try building it from the SRPM. Frankly, … Continue reading
Poor Man’s Windows Server: zPanel and WAMP
Update: The ZPanel site has moved to here to take advantage of Sourceforge hosting. See the comment below. (Original post begins below.) So you have this Windows machine, and you really have to have a server. It’s not necessary to … Continue reading
I Trust Ben
Search engines have opened up the world to ordinary Net surfers. I can recall using Alta Vista, then liking Go better, then Yahoo, then Google. These days, Google is simply not the best. Oddly, Bing actually gives far better results … Continue reading
Motives, Objectives, Imperatives
I want you to be free. There probably isn’t much I can do for you, simply because freedom cannot be a matter of me doing for you. Freedom is you taking hold of the choices we deny ourselves. Most of … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: More Servers
Because RHEL is essentialy an industrial grade commercial product, you’d have to expect it can run more types of server than most people would ever need. We covered the Samba server in a previous lesson as the most common need … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Mail Server
If you are running RHEL, you are already running a mail server. It’s installed by default and setup to run. Of course, it only delivers mail locally, and only from sources within your own machine. Right now, there are no … Continue reading