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Simplicity of Madness

If you want simple answers, you shouldn’t be reading my blog. While I do try my best to make certain aspects of Linux simpler and less mysterious, I can’t do that with reality in general. However, I can save you … Continue reading →

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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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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 →

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Don’t Trust Them

As many people do, I read news on the Web. I don’t have time to read everything offered by most of the news agencies. Nor would I trust their instincts about what is news and what is just a story. … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Sanity and Self-Sufficiency

In a previous post, I noted my interest in Linux and Open Source was primarily a matter of self-sufficiency, though I phrased it as a matter of having control over my computer. People want such control when they are ready … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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No Longer Recommending SOTT

Change is change; it’s not always good. Recently the Signs of the Times (SOTT) site shifted the focus of their editorial policy. It’s not as if I suspect they’ve been bought off or something. They have the same original editorial … Continue reading →

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