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Customer Is Not Always Right
The other half of my complaint — too much of Open Source is so developer centric it can quickly become anti-user — is sometimes the user wants the wrong thing. But it’s not so easy to untangle this mess, since … Continue reading
Computer Helps Ministry Returns
For the past decade or so I have offered as much computer help as I could for free. People did sometimes offer money, but it was never required. I did what I could because I really like people. In my … Continue reading
Ubuntu’s Broken Defaults on Fonts
Running Karmic Koala 32-bit, it’s not the first time I’ve been unhappy with the way Debian and friends do fonts. It’s the one part my Debian experience which has always dissatisfied. So this time I decided to check into the … Continue reading
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Building FreeBSD 8.0 (Updated)
My desktop was running CentOS 5 on one drive, but I had another on which Win7 was installed. Since I put that copy back on the Inspiron my wife is using, I had to nuke it off my machine. However, … Continue reading
Seamonkey 2 on CentOS 5
I prefer Seamonkey to other web browsers. The generic tarball build offered for Linux on the Seamonkey website doesn’t work quite right on my machine. Currently I find no one building it for CentOS 5, and certainly not tracking the … Continue reading
Plain Text Browsing the Net
Why, when there are so many graphics, scripting, and all the extra multimedia stuff? That’s why. I’ve tested this off and on for several years. When I visit my favorite sites with Lynx or Elinks, I find more actual information, … Continue reading
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Mystical Non-Career
I use the term “Christian Mysticism” to put a label on my commitment. It’s not what I am; only God really knows what I am, and He’s not telling. You can know only what part I play in your world, … Continue reading
Busted: NetBSD 5.01
No, there is nothing really wrong with the OS, but with me. I’m not the hobbyist any more. Back when I first dove into FreeBSD I was determined to get it. I bought a couple of books, bugged some people … Continue reading
The Recruiters, Part 4: Canebrake
They had to dodge between two long, narrow islands to avoid an extra half-day of sailing to go around and come back to the natural harbor on southern Nadul Island. The Captain and his crew seemed to think it a … Continue reading
Windows 7 Upgrade
First, be warned: It takes forever, over an hour. That’s about what it took to install Vista in the first place. Naturally I haven’t had much time to play around with it, but I want to note it’s much better … Continue reading