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These are notes for myself to document the tweaks I made to SL5. Peruse if you please.

Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2: SL5/RHEL5 comes with Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5, which is cool and all, but I want Firefox 2 (mainly for the spelling and because switching between the two types of tab [...]

Am I such a bad guy for wishing…nay…hoping for natural selection when I see stupid people doing stupid things? Let me give you a few examples.
We have two neighbors who think that celebrating the independence of the United States of America means blowing shit up.  This year, San Jose PD was blanketing our [...]

I was running CentOS 5 on my work “beater” P3 notebook for a day or two before I found a nasty error with the X and gdm (someone posted about it on the CentOS forums here). Basically, when my notebook boots up, it arrives at a text login prompt instead of the [...]

This year, Camp Yahoo! was different, instead of going to Blackberry Farms in Cupertino, we went to the San Mateo Event Center where there was a huge Camp Yahoo! setup.
I imagine the change in venue was for two reasons: 1) Yahoo! has really expanded in the last few years, so we needed a [...]

If you like that bottled water, you have been ripped off.
Pepsi’s Aquafina and Coke’s Desani brands of bottled water are: Tap water — the bottles are filled using “purified water sourced from public reservoir” (ie. the same thing you’ll get if you go and buy a Brita pitcher/filter and fill it up using [...]

So, nowadays every Linux distro has some fancy graphic for grub and for when services start up. What if an old skool guy like myself wants to see things in text? Here’s just some notes for myself, they are for RHEL and RHEL clones.
To get rid of the graphical GRUB screen:

comment out [...]

I am assuming that FOX has not opted to renew Standoff since the last episode was designated “Series Finale”.
The concept for the show was neat — follow a pair of FBI negotiators around as they save people’s lives, and they are also dating.  The show got off to a great start, but really didn’t get [...]