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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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