October 2009

So long, vBulletin

October 24, 2009

I’ll be see­ing you around, vBul­letin. It’s been real. It’s been fun. It has not, how­ever, been real fun. I opened my first dis­cus­sion forum in August of 2004, run­ning phpBB2 soft­ware. And while it worked, I was very aware the plat­form was not exactly secure. On 11 Feb­ru­ary 2005, I pur­chased my first vBul­letin license […]

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It ain’t America no mo’

October 24, 2009

If you have been won­der­ing about how your civil lib­er­ties are being stripped from you, Offi­cer Wes­ley Cheeks Jr. of the Reston, VA police depart­ment has the answer for you. Thanks for telling us the truth, Offi­cer Cheeks. We’ve sus­pected it for years and you’ve made it clear.

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Living large with Linux

October 17, 2009

The change-over to Linux oper­at­ing sys­tems is now com­plete. As I men­tioned ear­lier, I now have a Dell PC dual-booting Win­dows XP and Ubuntu 9.10, aka Karmic Koala. Karmic is still in Beta, how­ever I have found the Beta release to be steady as a rock and I’m not see­ing con­stant update. That leaves me […]

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Back to Ubuntu

October 11, 2009

A cou­ple years back, I toyed with some Ubuntu Linux instal­la­tions on a cou­ple of PC’s. I liked the idea of get­ting away from Win­dows and every­thing asso­ci­ated with it. My first Ubuntu instal­la­tion was 7.04, a.k.a. Feisty Fawn. It worked pretty well and I man­aged to get it all run­ning with a min­i­mal amount […]

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