Archive for May, 2006
Hibernating and suspending
I’ve been playing around with suspend2 since the Fedora 4 install. I’d gotten it to almost work: I could hibernate from run level 3, which meant I got the benefits of a quick boot but not of having my session preserved. The problem was the graphics card. I didn’t have time to investigate, and at [...]
Configuration path
Not too long ago, I mused about how pleasant it is to discover that someone had paved a trail where you through you were stumbling alone. I just came across Andrei’s page on configuring Linux on the S580 laptop. Granted, he’s using Gentoo and I’m using Red Hat, and he uses KDE and I use [...]
Targeting kids
You know how Big Tobacco is supposedly not longer targeting kids to get them to smoke cigarettes? Well, nobody said anything about little cigars– essentially often-flavored cigarettes in a brown wrapper. Coincidentally, this category of tobacco products is not subject to the same tax and regulations as cigarettes…
Get them while they’re young, Evita, get them [...]
IDAHO
On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from their list of mental disorders.
May 17 now marks the International Day Against Homophobia. Read about the history of IDAHO.
Fedora Core 5 Upgrade
It’s been pretty cold and rainy in Boston. Perfect time to upgrade Linux to Fedora Core 5.
DESKTOP UPGRADE: I began upgrading my desktop system using ISO images I burned onto CD RWs. On the second CD, installation failed saying the media could not be read. I re-burned disk two and retried it, and it kept [...]
