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Archive for December, 2005

Why Not Run as Root?

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

This topic won’t die, but I don’t really want it to. The discussion about whether it’s stupid, smart, or inconsequential to run as the superuser for day-to-day operations is always interesting. To me, anyhow.
It came up again today in the show forums and there was some good (albeit only two-way) discussion about it.
I’m going to […]

Linspire Sale.

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Coincidentally, Try Out Linux has a coupon code to get a full version of Linspire for $20 (vice the $44.95 download price).
I seem to recall that they were giving out free versions a couple of months ago. You may want to wait for that to come again, if it ever does.

The GNU/Linux User Show #26

Monday, December 5th, 2005

The GNU/Linux User Show #026 (MP3 18MB - 53min)
The GNU/Linux User Show #026 (OGG 26MB - 53min)
MP3: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
OGG: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
This week’s show was supposed to be about how to Mail Merge in OpenOffice.org 2.0, but due to technical difficulties, that’s going to have to wait until next week. […]