Category Archives: repository

The Wall Street Scandal of all Scandals

Robert Reich’s take on the financial failure… Just when you thought Wall Street couldn’t sink any lower – when its myriad abuses of public trust have already spread a miasma of cynicism over the entire economic system, giving birth to Tea Partiers and Occupiers and all manner of conspiracy theories; when its excesses have already [...]

Book Burning Sounds Par for the Course

Remember: “An informed public is the best defense against tyranny.” Anybody got a match?

dot.com Power Companies

When will Microsoft become a nuclear power?

Can’t Get No

Wanted: An Azureus way of finding DIBS peers willing to trade storage space.

Building Bridges to the Past

National Digital Newspaper Program

From FC2 to FC3 with yum

After reading how others successfully upgraded from FC2 to FC3 with very few problems, I attempted it. And, yes, I know that I said I would wait. I followed the instructions for upgrading using yum offered by: Brad Hutchinson Seth Vidal Both sets of instructions are essentially the same. Up, up and away… (thud). Initially, [...]

Pronounced Gooey

I reported a new bug to bugzilla.redhat.com today: the Up2date GUI fails to start. It is a small thing, certainly less troublesome than “the Pango problem”. up2date -u works from the command line. yum is my primary means for keeping Fedora Core 2 updated. And, if I really needed to use a GUI for updating, [...]

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