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It’s late and I should be sleeping. It’s cooler in the house than it’s been the last few days, but I am still sweating a bit. I’m tired because I’ve been working on very little sleep; the weather has been making it difficult to get comfortable. I’m trying to finish up the rnr site this [...]

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the Internet, at least when the software companies take “affirmative steps to foster infringement.”
In a 6-3 ruling, the Court decided that cable operators offering high-speed Internet [...]

You must be Root to do this.
You must also not be running KDE when you do this. At the graphical log-in screen, press CTRL+ALT+F1 to get to a prompt.
Install YUM. If you don’t have this installed, place the 4th CD in the drive. Look for the file ‘yum-2.2.0-0.fc3.rpm’ and copy it to your home [...]

This site is going to take a while to get under control. I have a lot of pages to convert. One nice thing is that my site finally has a search, so I plan to start posting a lot more useful information on here now that I can actually find it. I’m glad I [...]

Boing Boing: Supreme gives companies the right to bulldoze homeowners’ houses for minimalls and the like
Where do I start? Eau Claire has a few run-down areas that I’m sure the city would like to just plow over. Wal-Mart is probably really upset that they missed this opportunity to build a “Super Center” near Germania and [...]