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Open Source Religion

Posted on November 1, 2010 by ehurst

I’m currently following a discussion on a private list which addresses the issue of churches and Open Source software. For those most deeply involved in Open Source development, it’s almost a religion. They frankly accuse churches of wasting God’s blessings … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Going Bad

Posted on October 21, 2010 by ehurst

I’ve been using Chrome on several different OSes the past few months, and have been recommending it to some other folks. In general, it was faster, did Flash objects much better, and so forth. Recently I noticed it uses almost … Continue reading →

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RHEL 6.0 Beta2

Posted on October 14, 2010 by ehurst

With the first beta I ran into problems I could not resolve, having to do with display instability. So I wiped the drive and used it to test a few other things. Yet, I was haunted by what I knew … Continue reading →

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Good and Bad with Vocaloids

Posted on August 9, 2010 by ehurst

I am an arts curmudgeon. Making no pretense to cultural literacy, I can tell you honestly whether I like something or not when it is presented as art, and I’m hardly worried about how well that opinion matches any standards, … Continue reading →

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Shifting with the Wind on OSes

Posted on July 8, 2010 by ehurst

There is nothing wrong with turning your sails to the wind if it gets where you are going. I find it ludicrous people feel there is some necessity of being tribal about a computer operating system. It requires a particularly … Continue reading →

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Unix Tools on Windows

Posted on June 28, 2010 by ehurst

I still had my old XP license, so I installed it on my spare hard drive. The reason I care at all is, as everyone knows, drivers. Linux drivers for some things are just great, but even HP can’t create … Continue reading →

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Killer Solitaire Package: PySolFC

Posted on June 27, 2010 by ehurst

For quite some years I have been a fan of PySol. If any particular Linux distro dropped it, I dropped that distro. Eventually it seemed to have disappeared. But no, it was rescued by it’s own fan club, so to … Continue reading →

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Grab That Online Video: Mozilla

Posted on June 18, 2010 by ehurst

Folks, this is way out of date, more than seven years old. It doesn’t work like this any more. So you run across this instructional video on YouTube, and you would love to keep a copy, since pulling it down … Continue reading →

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Paranoid Computer Security

Posted on June 16, 2010 by ehurst

You’ve probably heard the old joke: The computer which is most secure from online threats is the one which isn’t online. Most of us use our computers for entirely too many things. If it really is all you have, that’s … Continue reading →

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Not Recommended: openSUSE 11.3

Posted on June 11, 2010 by ehurst

Currently at milestone 7, I highly recommend you avoid openSUSE 11.3 if you plan to boot more than one OS. I tried to install it on one harddrive (PATA/IDE mode), while preserving my RHEL 6.0-Beta install on another (SATA). I … Continue reading →

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