Trusting Microsoft?

Dana Blankenhorn asks What Would Make You Trust Microsoft? Good question. I’ll apply the same standard here as I do to everything else — God’s sense of justice.
First, I suppose we should note, as one poster did, there are several different major parts to the Evil Empire, and they aren’t all evil. I agree the [...]

XFCE: Less Is More

GTK is a very nice GUI toolkit. GNOME is rickety and parts, if not the whole thing, tend to crash way too much. You may have gotten a stable implementation on your Linux system, as CentOS does, but that’s only because you got one which was somewhat older and had been fixed. It’s the nature [...]

Ubuntu Karmic Koala on Inspiron 545 MT

This is the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. There is little point to running down the entire catalogue. Almost everything works Out of the Box® as we have come to expect from Ubuntu. When it doesn’t is when we have something to say. Further, having something to say is often limited to what little we each [...]

openSUSE 11.2-RC1 64-bit Sound and Flash

Novell has taken the safe path like RHEL, in that they don’t include any controversial codecs and such with the distribution. However, unlike RHEL, Novell actually cripples their bundled media players, so that you have to rebuild them, get someone else to do it, or use something else. For most releases up to 11.1, the [...]

The Search Continues: Testing openSUSE 11.2

Because this machine is so new, I realize it will take awhile for my favorite Linux distro to catch up (CentOS). So I use what does work, and it gives me a chance to review other stuff I might not normally touch.
I just finished a couple of weeks with Ubuntu 9.04. It works okay, and [...]

Opera Browser 10 Unstable on Linux 64-bit

This happens often enough it seems to be trend. I’m not the only one who experiences this. I found complaints on forums at Ubuntu and other Linux distros, as well as the Opera forums. It appears on all sorts of hardware, and the only common thread so far is Linux 64-bit.
When running 64-bit Linux, Opera [...]

Net Justice

God’s justice assumes you’ll do your best to stay out of other peoples’ way, but that their way won’t mean harming you. It’s a never-ending tension and renegotiation. The biggest source of conflict is unrealistic expectations, particularly regarding what God considers just, and what is possible.
Perception of some things is buried under tons of idiocy. [...]

Progress on the Upgrade

Reference this post about praying for a computer upgrade: I received a promise of assistance in purchasing, to be paid back at a comfortable rate. This allows me to be just a little more aggressive about selecting something powerful enough to run like new three or four years down the road. I’m currently leaning toward [...]

Spiritual Data

It does not compute.
I’m a theologian. If it makes you happy, you can prefix that with “amateur,” since I don’t get a dime for what I write or say. I’m not sure I care one way or the other about degrees, titles, positions, etc., since they often have no bearing on the quality or importance [...]

Praying for an Upgrade

Poor baby. I’m giving her all she’s got and it’s just not enough any more.
My Inspiron 4100 has a 1Ghz CPU with a half-GB of RAM. It’s not enough any more. I still love the little beast, and use it every day. But I keep running into tasks for which it simply is not able. [...]