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A fairly powerful natural intelligence platform running on a fairly weaker 1985 host
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| blog post in No Food for Thought | ASUS F2A85-M Last month I bought my first desktop in a decade. Ordering and getting the parts from DirectCanada was already an experience. I expected some surprises as t |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Bugs So after a long time, summer is back in Quebec... what we call summer anyway. With these high temperatures, bugs are back too. Yesterday I came back at 1 AM. With the street lamps, I noticed that - ob |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Civilization: Beyond Earth on Debian GNU/Linux? Good luck Ever since I moved to GNU/Linux, the video game I missed the most was Sid Meier's Civilization. The only version ported to GNU/Linux was Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, probably my favorite version. But t |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Debian KDE - A natural choice? {QUOTE(replyto="Testing migration summary 2015-10-22")}[...] caribou 0.4.19-1 0.4.18.1-1 celery 3.1.18 |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | dig(1) and other DNS clients sometimes taking 5 seconds to return the results of a local query After installing a few Debian VMs inside our Windows environment, I noticed very strange performance problems resolving local domain names on local DNS servers this week. Simple queries which should h |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | FHoS - Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez: Discussion is not an option In January, I announced my "resignation" from Debian's public relations . My last contribution to the team was [https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity?action=diff&rev2=129&rev1=125|a few |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Goodbye Flash, Hello Complete Freedom! Although Debian has been my main home PC's OS for more than a decade, I've always used proprietary software on it. Usually various drivers or firmwares, and sometimes applications. But always, the 2 m |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Goodbye Sun, Hello Freedom! I installed Debian countless times. So when I installed wheezy on my new desktop, I was following the usual routine of adding non-free sources then installing Adobe Flash Player and Sun Java, when I r |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | HP LaserJet Pro M227fdn (Debian GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows) After giving up on my Epson WF-3620 all-in-one , I had gone through a sixth consecutive defective inkjet print |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer on Debian 8 ManageEngine's NetFlow Analyzer is probably the best NetFlow analysis software. It supports GNU/Linux and is even free for a maximum of 2 network interfaces. NetFlow Analyzer 12.1 can be installed |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Optimizing the optimization - Performant Incremental Updates for Packages files In 2006, Michael Vogt implemented support for PDiff (differential Packages) files in APT to optimize the process of updating Packages. At the |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Resigning from Debian's Publicity team (sort of), and the status of our public relations When I joined Debian, Debian Weekly News was an important tool for me to follow the project. I must have read each issue until, during the Dunc-Tank controversy, I read the following in the introducti |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Running from Debian Project Leadership The 2016 Debian Project Leader election has started. For a second time, its result is quite predictable, as there is a single candidature. After a single |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | You know you're getting old when... You know part of your life is behind you when Debian is dropping support for your first computer (as well as your second). I can' |