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Proposition 8 Supporters: Get your facts straight!
[No pun intended in the title.]
At my college this morning there was a table near the student center building with a bunch of young Proposition 8 supporters attempting to rally passing students into voting yes. Thankfully, nearly all of the students that were asked are vehemently opposed to the proposition; and to make the experience even more fun, ( Read more... ) -
Birthdays and Awesomeness and Politics, Oh my!
Recently, Fedora turned 5 years old; and Google turned 10! How I have missed such awesome passings until now is probably due to schoolwork and job-hunting. (Or it could be due to sheer laziness.) The numbers on the Red Hat news page are quite astonishing:- "More than 13,500 Fedora Account System members [...],"
- "About 6,500 total source packages in ( Read more... )
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"(to) be like" is not a verbum dicendi!
To whom it may concern:
Your attempted usage of "was like," "is like," and similar phrases consisting of a copular conjugation prepended to the word "like" is not a proper verbum dicendi. English has a myriad of ways to introduce a quotative clause, especially (though not limited to) transitive and ditransitive verbs involving speech such as (also ( Read more... ) -
Playing Catch-Up
So, over the weekend my parents and I decided to head out of town for a bit, mostly on a whim. We came back to find that only about a fifth of our house's electricity worked: random outlets around the house gave us just enough for essentials: refrigerator/freezer, microwave, stove, some lights, one TV, and a couple of extra outlets for plugging in ( Read more... ) -
Folding@Home
I have the following as a reference for myself; but since it may be helpful to others, I've decided to post it here. This is a how-to based on the official F@H FAQ, but giving it its own user account for a bit tighter security.
Become the superuser ("root"):
$ su -
Add the user, and switch to its ID:
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Empathy/Haze & MC Profiles Update
Thanks to Colin Walters, Empathy should now automagically take care of the MC profile renaming upon startup.
Well, it will...once Koji is back up. The changes are tagged in CVS and simply need to be built. :) -
Rawhide Warning: Empathy/Haze & MC Profiles Update: Slight Manual Fixing Required
Posted this to the development mailing list; but the more I post it the more people will see it ( Read more... ) -
Can't talk; playing.
So my brother and I recently splurged on some new toys, and they have since been reason for my general lack of availability over the past week or so...
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[RFC] Package Updates/Bodhi Notification Content Policy?
(I posted this to the mailing list last week but didn't really receive much input/discussion on it. I'd like to change that, so I'm re-posting it on my blog. ^_ ( Read more... ) -
Anything, Everything, and Nothing at All.
I'm shamelessly stealing this sciathan-fileSend me about with my camera ( Read more... )