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Killing Flash But Not Firefox: Yes You Can (On 64-bit Debian)
Reading the Google Chrome comic book last week lead me to the following line of thoughts: A: It would be nice if I can kill a tab as easily in Firefox as in Google Chrome. B: Nah, I can't because everything runs in the same process. A: But those darn ...
Sep 8, 2008
11:31:35 AM
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Upgraded Weblog Software To Pebble 2.3.1
You won't feel it too much, but I have migrated this blog from gao-2002 (a.k.a my wife's workstation) to gao-2006 (my workstation), in order to give gao-2002 a much needed OS upgrade, from Fedora Core 6 to something newer, maybe Fedora 9. I had a false ...
Aug 7, 2008
11:51:15 PM
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Want OpenJDK 6 On Your Debian 4.0 AMD64 Box?...
... Do this: [root@gao] # feta install -t unstable openjdk-6-jdk Be warned that this command is potentially very risky: it has the potential of removing programs on your system, or render your whole system inoperable, or both. Recall that I have added ...
Jul 15, 2008
7:38:34 AM
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OpenJDK 6 Arrives In Debian Unstable Repository
Fedora 9 got it 24 days ago. Now it's Debian's turn! Dalibor Topic: OpenJDK in main is not only great because it means a lot of other Free Software Java-based packages can now more easily follow suit and enter main as well—it also means that a ...
Jul 13, 2008
8:05:05 PM
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this is very, very, very serious and scary
(Via St. Louis Unix Users Group discuss mailing list.) Bojan Zdrnja on SANS Internet Storm Center: Couple of days ago Swa posted a diary about a critical Debian/Ubuntu PRNG security vulnerability. Today Matt wrote in to let us know that H D Moore ...
May 15, 2008
7:45:29 AM
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QEMU: The Open Source Virtualizer
According to its home page, "QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer." I started playing with QEMU 695 days ago, and have made three posts about QEMU: QEMU: The Open Source Processor Emulator (648 days ago) QEMU: Just How ...
Nov 27, 2007
10:23:00 PM
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Flash Player 9 for 64-Bit Debian 4.0: Here's The Link
It took 37 days since I installed 64-bit Debian 4.0 on my amd64 machine, but I've finally gotten Flash Player 9 to work in my browser. There are several reasons for the 37 days delay. The biggest reason is that the procedure I followed, which is the ...
Jul 26, 2007
5:48:37 PM
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Goodbye Fedora, Hello Debian
My Fedora 7 Upgrade did not go well (some stupid video driver issue). So I wiped the disk and installed Debian 4.0r0. Now you debian fans out there, especially those who says "You should be running Debian, the truly free operating system," will ...
Jun 19, 2007
12:29:19 AM