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The Linux community spoke and foxnews.com listened. I received a polite message late today from Mr. Dave Denis the Director, Product Development at Fox News. Mr. Denis stated that Fox News is now aware of the problem with their Video page and is working with Maven Networks to get it fixed. Mr. Denis also stated . . . → Read More: Guess What? Fox News is Responsive to the Linux Community.  (See this follow up article: Guess What? Fox News is Responsive to the Linux Community.) This will be a short web log post. Try to view the Video page at foxnews.com from a Linux system using any browser and see what happens. http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html I see these results. The first is Firefox on Linux the second . . . → Read More: Does foxnews.com Hate Linux Users? I just upgraded our web log to WordPress 2.5.1 today. Everything appears “OK” to me but there may be problems that I did not see. If anyone notices a problem with the site please e-mail our web support desk using this Web Site Feedback form (opens in a new window or tab). Thank you! . . . → Read More: Upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 I have used NFS[1] mounts in our SOHO for many years for personal and business storage of files that need to be accessed from more than one PC. The file systems in /mnt are symbolically liked to /home/user directories and called mounts here. This makes accessing them very easy from each user account on a . . . → Read More: Managing Pesky NFS Mounts With A Shell Script I really loathe the fact that Google has decided to be Net Nanny for all of us. Go ahead and try this even if you dislike Google as much as I do. Go to the Google main page and type in, including the quotes, “blog.eracc.com” and click their [I'm Feeling Lucky] button. Did you see . . . → Read More: Google Sucks! (And Google Can Be Wrong) My company, ERA Computers & Consulting, builds personal computers and servers to customer specifications for customers that want pre-loaded eComStation, specific Linux distribution, FreeBSD, other operating system pre-installed or no operating system installed. These personal computers and servers are all x86 type systems with one or more AMD single-core or dual-core processors. We do not . . . → Read More: Building A Modern eComStation (OS/2) Personal Computer I have had the dubious pleasure of helping more than one Microsoft Vista laptop user recover from “This thing is really slow” syndrome. So far the fix has been to take the pre-loaded Vista laptops that were sold with only 512MB of RAM installed, pull out the 512MB of RAM and install at least 2GB . . . → Read More: A Business Case for Linux? (Laptops Marketed and Sold as Microsoft Vista Ready) I have been pondering the makeup of the Linux and FOSS (Free Open Source Software) communities and my role in the same. I see myself as an Advocate of Linux and FOSS. I attempt to promote the use of Linux and FOSS as often as I can. While I am also not a proponent of . . . → Read More: Linux and FOSS – Are You An Advocate or a Zealot? Before you think this is an April Fool’s Day joke allow me to assure you it is not. I just couldn’t sleep and decided to do some research. I’m too tired to think of a good prank at the moment. Ok, I’m up late because I can’t sleep and it is now nearly 2:00AM my . . . → Read More: History of April Fool’s Day from a Search Engine |
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