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Three months into using Ubuntu 12.10 and Arch Linux in a dual boot set up, I have the pleasure to say that it has been a happy co-existence. I've always been partial to Ubuntu, and after using it for 6 years now I can be forgiven. It has not disappointed me despite the changes in recent years. Now that changing operating systems is just an arrow key away in the grub page, I believe I've been spending considerable time in front of my computer using Arch instead. This light Linux distribution is fast and feels unhampered by added scripts. Indeed even with GNOME on top, the keyboard and mouse works without the nanosecond of waiting for a response. Arch   I have Linux kernel 3.6.x-x and GNOME 3.6. I have just upgraded my hardware with a recent purchase of an Intel 40 GB SSD to accompany my 1 TB SATA drive. I have a 2 GB RAM and a 2 GB swap partition. Ubuntu Ubuntu 12.10 comes with kernel 3.5.x and a GNOME3 base. I prefer to use whatever default packages my choice of distribut...

I really would like an impartial study on animals in captivity especially marine mammals. Our need to be as close to animals as much possible must be balanced with the issues raised by Samantha Berg here.     Sent to you by danny via Google Reader:     Former SeaWorld trainer reaches out to girl bitten by dolphin via RSS Feed - Top Digital Journal News on 12/13/12 Jillian Thomas was feeding a dolphin at SeaWorld Orlando when it partially launched out of the water and grabbed the girl's hand. Now a former SeaWorld trainer is reaching out to the 8-year-old.     Things you can do from here: Subscribe to RSS Feed - Top Digital Journal News using Google Reader Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites    

Hi Reese Since I last talk to you Mom and Imee talked on the phone. Maybe it's the season or maybe she knows that she's coming home soon, so she's giving instructions to her. I have been reporting regularly about the situation here and about the tenants. so she knows well enough to make some decisions. I get the word from Imee. Today a Meralco man came to disconnect service. Domer promised to pay on Monday the 18th. Domer also promised us that the rent would be paid on the 16th, Sunday. I am expecting that. I wanted to tell you about Imee volunteering to take care of some people in need in the hospice. She's inquiring how it should be done and what the conditions are. She wanted to practice some of the training she received months ago. Some lonely people, old people in dire need of some assistance are living the remainder of their lives in houses re-dedicated to caring for them. So it's a volunteer job,free food and bed plus allowance. Roger came home fr...

  Last post about dnscrypt-proxy and systemd, I was telling you it doesn't work. It could be that the rc.d script with the dnscrypt-proxy package I downloaded isn't being called. I switched to a full systemd a couple of weeks ago. My interim solution is to use opendns and uncomment the nohook option in /etc/dhcpcd.conf. I'm guessing i should also manually change the servers in /etc/resolv.conf too. Or maybe just use Network Manager graphical input the opendns servers. I ended doing both. So it works. I'm now using opendns and not my ISP's dns. You won't believe how much my ISP's dns block. Torrent sites, porn sites. Twitter and Facebook is sooo slooow. I am an Arch Linux user and GNOME is my desktop. Just in case you were wondering.

When I think about it, we live on in our email addresses in some unknown server somewhere.     Sent to you by danny via Google Reader:     Internet of the Dead: the net’s collision course with death via Cory Doctorow's craphound.com by Cory Doctorow on 11/26/12 My latest Locus magazine column is "The Internet of the Dead," which discusses the collision course the Internet is on with death. It was inspired by my work to preserve the personal data of my old friend Erik "Possum Man" Stewart, who died unexpectedly and tragically in June: It was while I sat in Possum's room that I began to think about his computer. It was a homemade Franken-PC that sat under his desk, its wheezy fan making a racket like an ancient refrigerator. After I'd left Possum's house and headed back to the airport, I got to thinking about that computer. I strongly suspected that Possum would have copied over all the data of his life – all the e-mails and lis...

I've been planning to switch from Arch initscripts and sysvinit to systemd. I finally downloaded the necessary packages and removed /etc/rc.conf entirely. I enabled the daemons in the rc.conf array. No issues except that the dnscrypt-proxy daemon is not starting. The status in systemctl is loaded but inactive (dead). Now I'm confused. I have internet connection but no dns. I temporarily removed the nohook option in dhcpcd.conf to let my ISP's dns handle the dns function.

I like the idea that chat and email (and yes the social networks) are being handled (created, started, notifications) by the operating system or at least the desktop environment. Of course individual applications are also doing these things on their own (Zimbra client, Thunderbird). My surprise is that desktop environments are failing at this and Zimbra-Thunderbird are pushing forward. I am using GNOME 3.6.x now in Arch Linux. I guess the question in the users' mind is when will it be robust enough so the basic integration is persistent even after a point update. Obviously, the development doesn't stop but certainly you have to agree that all these effort should end with your product being used by most of your intended user community. My wariness stems from GNOME 3's inclination to break things which are previously working. Sometimes all it takes is to clean old configuration files and restart the application or session. Sometimes a re-installa...