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Personal Computing in the Apocalypse
As if having a computer would matter when all Hell is breaking loose… So I claim to be a prophet of God, but that does not guarantee I can answer your questions about tomorrow. God only tells me what He … Continue reading
Morality: Virtual World versus Real World
To live spiritually in this world, you still have to understand the morality of our fallen existence. You cannot fight what you do not understand. We need to know the Laws of God, and the limits on Satan and his … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, culture, government, linux
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Firefox 4.0 Simple Build on RHEL 6
Update: This is now out of date. Unless you insist on running FF4 or FF5, please see the update for FF6. As far as I can tell, there will be no official release of Firefox 4 for RHEL 6 and … Continue reading
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
The Gaga Stamp of Disapproval
Let’s pretend something outrageous. Let’s pretend somehow Lady Gaga saw me, and said I was hot. I’d be horrified, sick to my stomach, insulted. Naturally, it will never happen. Not only do I not appeal to very many women, but … Continue reading
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
Scientific Linux 6.0 Released Today
In case you weren’t watching for this anywhere else, you can now download the full release ISOs for SL 6.0: Go here for 32-bit ISO and here for 64-bit If, like me, you installed any of the betas and RCs, … Continue reading
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Tagged linux, scientific linux
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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
Scientific Linux 6-RC2 on Inspiron 1525
It’s not that I didn’t like running Debian Squeeze on my laptop, it’s that there was no reason to ever use the laptop since my desktop was identical. I noticed Scientific Linux (SL) was close to releasing their 6.0 and … Continue reading