I keep a Lenovo ThinkCentre SFF with Windows 10 on it because I have email and a few other things for one specific client on it. Most every other company on the planet has abandoned Microsoft products, but this one still uses them. Having come up in IT through operations back when we had actual computer rooms with actual computers in them, I’m a firm believer in bare metal backups. I use Image for Linux … Debian 12 is Better Than Windows 10Read more
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Synchronizing Evolution
It’s kind of quaint to think of running Evolution PIM on just one computer so you never have to synchronize anything. When I see Apple Cult members trying to do everything on just a phone or just their tablet or one of those massively overpriced (and fragile) laptops I laugh. You are not a professional! When working on PC software, you generally need 6-8 machines. Yes, one of them will have at least 8 VMs … Synchronizing EvolutionRead more
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How Hackers Get In
Today even people who know nothing about computers have heard of hackers, ransomeware, and spyware. There was even a very funny Dick Tracy comic strip in the 1970s where this scruffy old guy visits a doctor’s office complaining of his systems and in the last frame says Give it to me straight doc! Have I got one of them Computer Viruses? scruffy old guy Hollywood created the greatest computer hacking movie of all time in … How Hackers Get InRead more
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RedDiamond 3.6.4 Released
A new release of RedDiamond, version 3.6.4, has been released. You can find AppImage, RPM, and Debian packages here. For those of you unfamiliar with this OpenSource project, it really started off as part of the How Far We’ve Come series. These dovetailed into the CopperSpice Experiments series. Having come up on real operating systems with editors like EDT, I have always been annoyed at how futile most PC based programming editors are. They pack … RedDiamond 3.6.4 ReleasedRead more
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CopperSpice and Fedora 40
It has been my personal experience that Fedora is one of the least tested Linux distros in the market. Sadly CopperSpice chose to support Fedora first. This is a distro that __never__ tests with NVIDIA drivers that are actually in their repo, prior to pushing out updates. There is a bug that I reported here. My fork of CopperSpice has a hack-a-round this bug in the RPM build script. At some point in the very … CopperSpice and Fedora 40Read more