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CentOS 7: Virtual Box VM

Posted on July 31, 2014 by ehurst

Folks, this is how it’s done. Oracle may not be our favorite company, but this is one thing you will not want to miss: Oracle’s Virtual Box VM. It’s free. You’ll find the user manual is quite in-depth. Here are … Continue reading →

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CentOS 7: QEMU

Posted on July 30, 2014 by ehurst

Install a Windows VM on CentOS/RHEL 7 using QEMU — this is the hard way. VMware won’t build properly on CentOS 7 and all of the suggest fixes failed. The simplest answer is using the included virtual machine, QEMU. See … Continue reading →

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CentOS 7 and 64-bit Mozilla Stuff

Posted on July 24, 2014 by ehurst

CentOS 7 comes with the ERS (Extended Release Support) version of Mozilla software. This is typical of the basic concept behind RHEL/CentOS and other clones, that you probably only have to install the OS once in the lifetime of the … Continue reading →

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CentOS 7 Desktop: Unneeded Services

Posted on July 23, 2014 by ehurst

If you run Windows, you can find some really great advice from Black Viper about which services you need or don’t need and under what circumstances. Scroll down and check the page links he has. For quite some years his … Continue reading →

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The Newest Online Privacy Threat: Canvas

Posted on July 22, 2014 by ehurst

As a part of the various options webmasters have for displaying content in your browser, something called “canvas” can also be used for tracking. In essence, the webpage can instruct your browser to draw a picture that is not displayed. … Continue reading →

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CentOS 7: Home Networking

Posted on July 21, 2014 by ehurst

CentOS is a lot smarter than you might expect. It knows when it is connected to a home router. The new firewall quickly adjusts and generally does the right thing. However, it won’t automatically allow you to link to the … Continue reading →

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CompSec: The Other CIA

Posted on July 21, 2014 by ehurst

Computers are essentially the means to data storage and processing. In that sense, data has value. Never mind theories about money and store of value; data is its own kind of thing. The whole business of computers and networking is … Continue reading →

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Desktop CentOS 7: Added Repos

Posted on July 20, 2014 by ehurst

This is simply my own recommendation. In order to run CentOS 7 on the desktop, most folks want stuff you can’t get from CentOS directly. For example, most of us still use websites that require Flashplayer. Adobe has set up … Continue reading →

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PySolFC on CentOS 7: Tk Errors

Posted on July 19, 2014 by ehurst

So you either built it from SRPMs or simply got the necessary libraries and got the source. Either way, you’ve got PySolFC on your CentOS/RHEL 7 machine and it won’t work. If you try to launch it from the CLI, … Continue reading →

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FYI: Yet Another Risk Factor in Windows

Posted on July 18, 2014 by ehurst

Hackers have found a way to incorporate that highly advanced NSA-grade spyware into their criminal malware. Is anybody surprised? Where computer technology is concerned, my whole mission is enabling the transmission of truth. Anything that hinders that is my enemy, … Continue reading →

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