“Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither liberty nor security.” — Benjamin Franklin
Posted in Linux, Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2009
I’m in the middle of upgrading my machines from 8.10 to 9.04. So far, I’ve run into two problems.
The first problem was that on my first machine to upgrade, I’d launch KDE (or Gnome) and the terminal windows didn’t have a prompt. Also, update-manager or synaptic would complain about pty(s). A google [...]
Posted in Linux on Mar 22nd, 2009
I found out today that Sun has an alpha version of Java 1.6.0 64-bit for linux. Look here for Java SE 6 Update 12. I had been using IcedTea java and I disabled it before proceeding.
I downloaded the .bin file into my Download area and ran sudo ./jre-6u12-linux-x64.bin. This could have been [...]
Posted in Linux on Mar 1st, 2009
I was having an issue with KDE 4.2 & firefox. If I put firefoxin System Settings / Default Applications / Web Browser, I would get the page downloaded to /var/temp/kdecache-username/krun and then the file opened in firefox.
I tried several options. One suggestion which lined up with how x-chat opened URLs was to use [...]
Preston Gralla tried using Linux for two weeks. As an old-time Windows user (he says from 2.0), he had some challenges. I give him an A+ for giving Linux a chance and a C for utilization of resources to overcome his challenges.
Preston gets the A+ for trying and reporting that all the [...]
I bought an Epson Perfection V300 a few weeks ago because it appeared to be usable in Linux with VueScan. When I tried to get it to run I had no luck. The driver for the scanner was supposed to be at AVASYS.
Finally, on the 19th of December, AVASYS indicated that a driver [...]
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