Pocahontas County Fare

Recently, my Debian "sid" boxen developed a problem during a routine update/upgrade process. There was some incompatibility among ...

After the latest Debian sid update, Digikam quit working on one of my machines (but not the other). It would flash the start-up logo, then j...

phpMyAdmin and MySQL — Drop Tables with Common Prefix | DigitalWindFire : A handy tip for my Wordpress experimentation--this is how I delete...

I'm running KDE 4, with some grumblings on three different machines, and the "sleep" and "hibernate" options behave...

Some people who live on remote mountain ridges worry about the government tracking their movements and infringing their rights. I assume tha...

I was excited to read this last week: Udacity and the future of online universities by Felix Salmon. Speaking of Sebastian Thrun, Salmon wr...

Given the mysterious boot failures of the last few weeks, I need regular and reliable access to my laptop. Yet since the Mac Mini failed la...

Apropos of the SOPA/PIPA controversy last week, I've revised my short paper on digital copyright issues written for a local history proj...

I'm no expert on legislation and the Internet, which is why I'm passing along Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? :...

My Linux reboot problems continue. If I restart shutdown -r now , I get a variety of boot failures. I've determined there's nothing ...

Here's how you reset kde4 dolphin settings :"Just remove settings file and restart dolphin--" $rm .kde/share/config/dolphinrc...

Earlier this week, Debian unstable offered me a kernel upgrade, and, after some cautious data backup, I installed it. Soon after, I attempte...

To my great surprise, I've got KDE 4.6 Desktop Effects working again. My recent desktop environment problems had led me to reinstall De...

Yesterday's post reporting a successful switch to KDE was a bit premature, at least on my desktop machine. The laptop is still OK (I ho...

The last few weeks I've been shopping for a new Linux Desktop environment. I never do this voluntarily, but my distro, Debian testing (W...

Now that I've updated my Drupal website, I need to think of something useful to do with it. I've used it for sharing information wit...

I've been putting off updating my Drupal Web page for most of the winter, but I thought I'd better get it taken care of before spri...

This past Sunday marked the release of the new Debian stable version, 6.0, code-named "Squeeze." I've been running Squeeze...

I ran the Squeeze upgrades on my desktop machine Saturday morning, and noticed that a grub update was on the list. I've had enough trou...

These videos made me laugh really hard. I have no idea why this amuses me, but I'm having Linux trouble today, can't figure it out,...