Archive for December, 2002
Sunday, December 29th, 2002
Slack's done, with the exception of configuring the mouse and the X Window system. The network configuration is even working. The text screens in this install are laid out very nicely, I must say.
By default, Slack boots to runlevel 3 - a console window. There are options in the ...
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Sunday, December 29th, 2002
The Slack install is still going nicely, though I'm questioning the wisdom of having chosen a newbie install. I've already looked at far more packages than I'd anticipated. Other than that, not much to report at this moment.
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Sunday, December 29th, 2002
I'm working my way through the package selection. Assuming that many of the Penguin Shell readers visiting for the blogcast will be new to Slack, I chose the "newbie" install, a nice option that a) automatically installs all required packages and b) provides a verbose description of optional packages. Since ...
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Sunday, December 29th, 2002
I'm doing a Slackware install this afternoon. This one's got a bit of a twist from the previous installs. I'm installing the late beta version of Slack 9.0. One of my Penguin Shell readers suggested it, and provided a script to get all the necessary files and create an iso ...
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Thursday, December 26th, 2002
I took a few days off, as you can see. The holiday season becomes all-consuming at some point, though not nearly to the level at which it took over my life during 13 years in retail.
That retail experience tainted my view of Christmas more than I'd like to admit. It's ...
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Saturday, December 21st, 2002
The Ohio Supreme Court issued a $32.5 million dollar judgment against Anthem Insurance Friday. Anthem denied payment for brain cancer treatments for an Ohio woman, resulting in her death.
Anthem paid for the first three of a scheduled 12 treatments earlier in 1997 of a new technique that involved injecting ...
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Friday, December 20th, 2002
I'm using SpamAssassin now on my machine to kill the crap that floats thorough from marketers. It seems to be very accurate, with very few false positives. Everything gets filtered into the caughtspam directory in my mail system, where I can review it.
Some of this stuff is just downright strange. ...
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Thursday, December 19th, 2002
Frankly has a new license. Well, a license as opposed to none.
CreativeCommons seems to be on to something. I chose the least restrictive license possible, short of allowing commercial use. Really, it's as much to support the CreativeCommons as anything else. I'm not terribly afraid of my content being stolen, ...
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2002
If you're as concerned as I am about TIA and it's head, John Poindexter, Matt Smith, a columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle has a great plan for us all. Read his article and follow directions. Maybe Mr. Poindexter will begin to understand what an invasion of privacy sifting through ...
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2002
Even the staunchest conservative institutions are in an uproar over this one. In Bush's backyard - the typically conservative business community - leaders are raising concerns about Total Information Awareness. An editorial in Business Weekly Online today points out the scope of this program's reach:
The outrage over TIA doesn't seem ...
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