I decided to dump Ubuntu linux. My first replacement candidate was Suse Linux 10.0. I didn’t really like it. I installed it with the KDE desktop, and it is just too slow on my ancient machine. Worse, I could not get WebCalendar to install.
Next I’m going to try Fedora Core 5. I run FC 4 [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2006 by pwyll
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Thought provoking article at Belmont Club.
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It is not necessarily obvious how a shadow war will end, even during the waging of it. In 1950, the West had no idea that the Cold War would end 25 years later with the Helsinki accords, 39 years later with the fall of the Berlin Wall, or 44 [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2006 by pwyll
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Posted on April 29th, 2006 by pwyll
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This blew my mind.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Congress approved a bill Friday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin for personal use — a measure sure to raise questions in Washington about Mexico’s commitment to the war on drugs.
The only remaining step was the signature of President Vicente Fox, whose office [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: nanny state, politics | 2 Comments »
iTerm would be a nice Terminal replacement for OS X, except that it has a nearly inscrutable settings interface. I almost gave up on it, and I don’t give up easily. Enter Cody the Destroyer to the rescue. He presents a nice tutorial, complete with pictures, explaining how to change default preferences and window settings [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2006 by pwyll
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