Comment Re:Pretty much anything by Kurt Vonnegut (Score 1) 437
I'll wholeheartedly second this suggestion. Vonnegutt has been a fav of mine for over 40 years.
Comment Re:Early James Michener (Score 1) 437
Basically anything by Michener is outstanding. I loved Texas, Hawaii, Centennial, and many others.
Comment Books I Should Have Read in High School (Score 1) 437
Here's a link to a blog posting I made awhile back listing some of the great books that I was assigned in high school, but never read then (except for the Cliff's Notes versions). I've since read and loved them all.
https://noctslackv2.wordpress....
Regards,
~Eric
https://noctslackv2.wordpress....
Regards,
~Eric
Submission + - Slackware Documentation Project Begins In Earnest
vtel57 writes: A recent thread at Jeremy's LinuxQuestions.org (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackbuilds-org-vs-slackware-documentation-4175422561/) lit a fire of enthusiasm for a new Slackware documentation initiative. A new SlackDocs Wiki has been started on Alien Bob's (Eric Hameleers) server (http://taper.alienbase.nl/dokuwiki/). There is also a new mailing list (http://lists.alienbase.nl/mailman/listinfo/slackdocs) for discussion and coordination of the project. All interested parties are encouraged to visit and participate.
Submission + - Flaw found in gnome-terminal, xfce terminal and terminator that writes to disk. (climagic.org)
suso writes: "A design flaw in the VTE library was published yesterday. The VTE library, which is part of the GNOME project, provides the terminal widget and manages the scrollback buffer used in many popular terminal emulators including gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and guake. Due to this flaw, your scrollback buffer ends up on your /tmp filesystem over time and can be viewed by anyone who gets ahold of your hard drive. Including data passed back through an SSH connection. A demonstration video was also made to make the problem more obvious. Anyone using these terminals or others based on libvte should be aware of this issue. Any administrator who has users who connect to services using one of these terminals will also be affected. Instructions are also included in the report for how to properly deal with the leaked data on your hard drive. You are encouraged to switch terminals or start using tmpfs for your /tmp partition until the library is fixed."
Submission + - Helios (Ken Starks) Posts Sad Missive (blogspot.com)
vtel57 writes: "On 3 March, Ken Starks of the Austin, TX Helios Project --> http://www.heliosinitiative.org/ posted a sad missive regarding the accidental release of a Facebook posting regarding his personal health issues.
Now that it is public, we should offer Ken and his family all of our support during this trying time. Ken has been a passionate and active proponent of GNU/LInux for quite some time now.
You're in our thoughts, Ken."
Now that it is public, we should offer Ken and his family all of our support during this trying time. Ken has been a passionate and active proponent of GNU/LInux for quite some time now.
You're in our thoughts, Ken."
Comment Oh, Darn! (Score 1) 807
Sorry to read about your travails, Mooga. The world moves on, you know. It's pretty inevitable. For a long time I held out with my Win 98SE. I finally had to go to XP, though. Nowadays, I'm a happy penguin (Linux user). I could never have achieved my current computing nirvana had I not embraced change and progress.
Come join the rest of us while we ride the ever-changing wave of technical progress.
Have FUN!
Comment Hmmmph! (Score 1) 720
Let's just all swing our naked asses out in the breeze so BIG BRO can kiss them.
Submission + - Google Won't Pwn Me! (wordpress.com)
vtel57 writes: "A veteran of the Google Plus #nymwars lives to tell the tale."
Submission + - Jim Zemlin: Only idiots don't give back to FOSS (networkworld.com) 1
Julie188 writes: "Taking without contributing back to the upstream project defeats the benefit of open source and sooner or later, all open source users realize this, contends Jim Zemlin, executive director of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. So the time for cajoling those users — even commercial projects like Canonical — into participating is over. Contributing is "not the right thing to do because of some moral issue or because we say you should do it. It's because you are an idiot if you don't," he says."
Comment Adios, G+... and Google (Score 1) 417
After reading this load of schmidt from Eric, I reacted this way:
https://noctslackv1.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/google-wont-pwn-me/
I'm done. :)
Comment Memory Deluge (Score 1) 364
Between running Google+ and Pandora in Pin-As-App tabs, and my other regular browsing, FF has been slurping up resources in my Slackware and Arch installations like there's no tomorrow. It's getting old. Maybe today's project should be getting to know Chrome/Chromium?
Submission + - The GNU/Linux Adventurer's Backpack (wordpress.com)
vtel57 writes: "If you are setting off on your new GNU/Linux adventure, there are some must have things that youâ(TM)ll be needing to take along with you.
When youâ(TM)re at the kitchen table packing that backpack for your big adventure, donâ(TM)t forget to stuff these items in there with your lantern, matches, water purification pills, and lip balm. Youâ(TM)ll find this stuff will come in very handy along the trail..."
When youâ(TM)re at the kitchen table packing that backpack for your big adventure, donâ(TM)t forget to stuff these items in there with your lantern, matches, water purification pills, and lip balm. Youâ(TM)ll find this stuff will come in very handy along the trail..."
Submission + - The Slacker's Fav Linux List (lockergnome.com)
vtel57 writes: Just in time for the holidays, too.
Comment Good News, I S'pose... (Score 1) 77
... not that we were really worried or anything. The MS Police won't be kicking in my door to strip Slackware off my system any time soon. Whew!
