Debian Lenny Mini Review
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Dedication
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways. He maintained several packages and was the main supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS architectures. He was also a member of our kernel team, as well as a member of the Debian Installer team.
Thiemo’s work, dedication, excellent technical knowledge and his large heart to share this with others will be missed. Rest in peace Thiemo.
Review
Having always been a Debian person at heart, I eagerly awaited the latest Debian version to hit the mirrors. When Lenny was released, I downloaded the DVD ISO through torrent and installed it.
There are three installers built into the DVD: text based installer, graphical installer and an advanced option.
The default text and graphical installers install GNOME as the desktop environment. To install KDE, LXDE or XFCE, select the advanced option, then alternate desktop environments and finally your desired desktop environment.
I used the default text based installer to install GNOME.
admin @ February 17, 2009
How to Open OOXML Files on Debian Lenny
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This is just a short note on how to open OOXML files [.docx, .xlsx and .pptx] on Debian Lenny.
To open these, get the odf-converter-integrator program.
We need the strawberry version of odf-converter-integrator.
Open a terminal and execute the following commands:
- wget http://katana.oooninja.com/f/software/odf-converter-integrator-strawberry_0.2.1-2_i386.deb
- dpkg -i odf-converter-integrator-strawberry_0.2.1-2_i386.deb [as root]
Open the file manager, navigate to the desired file and double click to open it using the editor assigned to the file type.
Written by Michael R. M. David
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admin @ March 15, 2009
Good Ground
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“Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted” (Matthew 13:8).
God’s Word
There are many kinds of seeds we can sow, but do you know what produces the best crop? The seed of God’s Word planted on the soil of our hearts. The more of the Word you take into your heart, the more abundant harvest it will produce. Our job, as believers, is to make sure we are good ground.
The scripture tells us there are things that can choke the seed of the Word out of our hearts. The cares of this world, greed and selfishness act as thorns that stop the seed from growing. It also tells us that in order for the seed to take root, we need to stand strong during the difficult times when persecution and challenges come.
If you have hard or dry places in your heart today, God wants to soften those areas. He promises in Ezekiel that He will take out the stony, hard heart, and He will replace it with a new heart, a heart that is open to Him. And when you have an open and receptive heart, you are good ground! The seed of the Word will take root and grow, and it will produce an abundant harvest of blessing in every area of your life!
Let us Pray
Heavenly Father, thank You for the seed of the Word which is alive and growing in our hearts. Search our hearts and minds today. Have Your way in us. Use us for Your glory alone. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
God Bless You All.
Sent via email by a sister in Christ.
admin @ June 26, 2009
24Kpwn Lives On, in the iPhone 3GS!
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About 5 hours ago (Thursday evening, less than a week after the 3GS launch), we were able to verify that the 24Kpwn exploit that the hybrid team used on the iPod Touch 2G is still applicable to the bootrom of the iPhone 3GS. That means we can use the same sort of technique used by our current redsn0w tool to jailbreak and unlock the iPhone 3GS.
admin @ June 26, 2009
June 2009 Top 500 Supercomputers List Released
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The 33rd edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is still led by Roadrunner and Jaguar, but shows that two of the top 10 positions are now claimed by new systems in Germany. The latest listing, to be announced Tuesday, June 23, at the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference, also includes a brand-new player, an IBM BlueGene/P system at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, ranked at No. 14.
[And once again Linux tops the charts. Yay]
admin @ June 26, 2009
China’s Porn Obsession Not Just a Coverup For Political Repression
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The thing that stinks - to Western noses - about this whole Green Dam story is the idea that China wants to go to all this trouble, to the point of having a serious showdown with the U.S. over it, over porn. I mean, porn … if people want it, they’ll get it. And who cares if they want it, really?
[I think there is more to it than meets the eye. Why a govt takes active measures to curb porn is beyond me. Why? BTW it doesn't seem that this Green Dam software runs on anything else except Windows. So are all alternate operating system users exempted from this stupidity?]
admin @ June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson Death Prompts Malicious Spam
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Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered spam emails offering recipients links to unpublished videos and pictures of singer Michael Jackson. These links lead to malicious content that can harm your PC.
admin @ June 26, 2009
