... I received email earlier this week from the project manager in reply to my bug report; the CD labels for 1.3.4 are now correct and available as PDFs here: ...
... Here in the US, there is often a great deal of wildlife in unexpected places. We had a coyote in Central Park (the midst of NYC), recently. ... Google...
... I remember trying to train a parakeet as a child--that's about as far as I got, though I did train protection dogs for awhile. A picture of me in the 80's...
... In response to a correspondent, here's my CD with a label printed using a Casio CW-L300 Disk Title Printer; the super-shiny "art" on the TDK blanks will...
... Here in Silicon Valley cougars are a big issue, killing horses and people. Here's an article (with pictures) of a cougar crouching over a schoolyard full...
The UEFI booting I mentioned en passant earlier today could be a very real problem for us who buy new systems and expect to be able to install and boot Linux...
... I for one believe that this will never get very far. If it is ever implemented in the field the monopolies commission will soon break it up. Imagine, the...
... If anyone's interested in the UEFI specs, they're available here: <http://www.uefi.org/home/> <http://www.uefi.org/specs/> Seems they just had a PlugFest...
Though I've been using Emacs since 1975, I've never used it as a login shell [spec'd in /etc/passwd] as several colleagues have done over the years. Now...
A week or so ago I mentioned LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) awareness for assuring portability of shell scripts. While recently enhancing my makehosts script...
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I've had a script I've used for years now which frequently downloaded the databases from these two sites: <http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm> and ...
Is there an advantage to using a Desktop Environment such as KDE, Gnome or XFCE? I ensure I have the libraries so programs written to one or the other works,...
... In theory, at least, the advantages would be that they have GUI tools for setting up printers, networks, and so forth. Unfortunately, I feel that...
... I started back when cards were the only user input method to computers except for the toggle switches on the CPU's front panel. Beginning around the...
... Hmmm, seems fluxbox is quite similar to twm though the twm screenshot here is pathetic; with twm on my Sun systems and a 23" (25"?) CRT I had a lot of...
... Heh, look back a week or two ago when I reported CentOS's POS GNOME gdm greeter login screen wouldn't show its ugly violation of every security tenet login...
Anyone using Evince to fill-in PDFs should check the resultant PDF on some other system (BSD, Mac OS, UNIX, Windows, etc.) to be sure the PDF hasn't been...
... And since evince hasn't been fixed since last year and no one is assigned to work on that POS, it looks like the solution is the Foxit PDF reader (which is...
... snip... ... snip... fluxbox is just a window manager with a very simple taskbar. It loads lightning fast; less than two seconds on my machine from entering...
... I downloaded and unpacked the tar.bz2 file. The Readme.txt provides more info including that it's NOT a single-file installation and these two files,...
On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:28:21 -0700 ... Not even that; as you note, you need the libraries installed to use applications, and you can use them quite easily...
... No problemo -- I see NO problems with occasional diversions from those of us who've been using computers for decades. It's not like the group is swamped...
... There's no arguing Windows is what most people recognize as the de facto environment to emulate by any competing OS. And for those unaware, Microsoft...
... When I got my MCSE, in 1999 or so, a good deal of it was learning how to migrate from Netware and Unix. Now of course, it's the other way around,...
... Referring again to the above Wikipedia URL about Windows, scroll down about halfway to the preview screenshot of Windows 8 -- that's MS' "Metro" DTE which...
