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rants.org » Blog Archive » Disabling the GNOME Workspace Switcher Popup (in GNOME 3.14 on Debian GNU/Linux).
http://www.rants.org/2014/10/11/disable_gnome_workspace_switcher_popup
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. Disabling the GNOME Workspace Switcher Popup (in GNOME 3.14 on Debian GNU/Linux). Saturday, October 11th, 2014. This post is a public service announcement for all those using GNOME 3.14 or higher (in my case on Debian GNU/Linux, although that detail probably doesn’t matter here). I wanted to get rid of the workspace switcher popup. That’s the thing that looks like this and displays briefly whenever you switch workspaces:. I do not know. Then restart GNOME, run. For th...
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rants.org » Blog Archive » Debian Installation: Getting Past the Grub Error.
http://www.rants.org/2014/09/09/debian_install_solving_grub_error
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. Debian Installation: Getting Past the Grub Error. Tuesday, September 9th, 2014. This post is for people who install Debian GNU/Linux and run into this error at the GRUB installation step:. Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error . Yes, seriously: the Debian installer apparently can’t figure out on its own that. The place you want to install the boot loader is on the huuuuuuuuge hard drive that you’ve been installing. From your own site. Had thi...
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rants.org » Blog Archive » Fix for WordPress 4.1 front page “Not Found” error (from Stealth Publish plugin).
http://www.rants.org/2014/11/12/wordpress_error_fix_in_stealth_publish_plugin
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. Fix for WordPress 4.1 front page “Not Found” error (from Stealth Publish plugin). Wednesday, November 12th, 2014. This is a public service announcement for anyone else who runs WordPress straight from SVN trunk and found their site broken after upgrading recently (probably after. Took their site across the WordPress 4.1 boundary), such that instead of showing recent posts on the front page, you would see only this message:. The workaround implemented by that line (tha...
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rants.org » Blog Archive » Quick update on the Craig Shirley affair: NYT Public Editor agrees Rick Perlstein was smeared.
http://www.rants.org/2014/08/12/nyt_public_editor_supports_perlstein
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. Quick update on the Craig Shirley affair: NYT Public Editor agrees Rick Perlstein was smeared. Tuesday, August 12th, 2014. A quick update for those who’ve seen my previous post. About the false charges of plagiarism levied by Craig Shirley against historian Rick Perlstein:. The New York Times Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan, agrees that Rick Perlstein was unfairly swift-boated. It was out there. To act as though there’s such a thing as. 8220;out there”. Meanwhile, th...
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rants.org » Blog Archive » How hard is open source winning? This hard…
http://www.rants.org/2014/12/05/how_hard_is_open_source_winning
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. How hard is open source winning? Friday, December 5th, 2014. How hard is open source winning? So hard that apparently it can be. Now in contexts where formerly it would have gotten explicit mention. A moment ago I happened to read this article at TechCrunch: CoreOS Calls Docker “Fundamentally Flawed,” Launches Its Own Container Runtime. Now, I don’t know anything about the technical merits of the issue here — is Docker the greatest thing since sliced bread? The Old Ra...
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rants.org » Blog Archive » Read Andy Oram’s Article “Does Network Neutrality Really Matter?” Please.
http://www.rants.org/2014/08/17/andy_oram_on_net_neutrality
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. Read Andy Oram’s Article “Does Network Neutrality Really Matter? Sunday, August 17th, 2014. I don’t usually write a blog post just to say. 8220;go read this other person’s blog post”. But some cases are worth an exception. Andy Oram’s recent post at O’Reilly Radar. Does net neutrality really matter? Is a must-read if you. You know where you stand on network neutrality. Once again, Andy Oram’s post:. Does net neutrality really matter? From your own site. Starbucks in C...
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rants.org » Blog Archive » Noel Taylor: A Scholar and a Gentleman.
http://www.rants.org/2015/01/15/noel_taylor_scholar_and_gentleman
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. Noel Taylor: A Scholar and a Gentleman. Thursday, January 15th, 2015. I gave my friend Noel Taylor (yes, the noted William Howard Taft scholar) a book as a New Year’s gift. This was his response. When you first presented me with “President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath”. Realization of what is nearly universally regarded as an apocryphal tale. So I ask, just who the hell do I have to blow to get a Bancroft Prize in American History? From your own site. If you like what yo...
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rants.org » Blog Archive » New York State Senate bill offers tax credit for open source development expenses.
http://www.rants.org/2015/01/08/new_york_open_source_tax_credit
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. New York State Senate bill offers tax credit for open source development expenses. Thursday, January 8th, 2015. An interesting bill was just introduced in the New York State Senate: open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S161-2015. AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing a tax credit to individuals for up to two hundred dollars of expenses related to the development and posting of an open source or free license program …. And the Free Software Foundation.
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rants.org » Blog Archive » Freedom of conscience applies to Kenyan immigrants too.
http://www.rants.org/2015/07/09/obamas-father-and-freedom-of-conscience
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. Freedom of conscience applies to Kenyan immigrants too. Thursday, July 9th, 2015. I’ve run across yet another reference to President Obama’s supposedly Muslim father, this time in a magazine that I subscribe to and like,. It was in this interview. Of Michael Oren by Jeffrey Goldberg, but the relevant quote is actually from a piece by Oren. Leaving aside Oren’s highly suspect psychologizing of Barack Obama, there is a more important error here:. Although minor, I wish ...
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rants.org » Blog Archive » Interview for French Translation of “Producing Open Source Software”.
http://www.rants.org/2011/04/11/poss-french-interview
Karl Fogel's blog. Laquo; next post. Interview for French Translation of “Producing Open Source Software”. Monday, April 11th, 2011. The folks at Framabook graciously sent me some copies of the print version of their French translation of my book (in French, “ Produire Logiciels Libres. 8220;, in English, “ Producing Open Source Software. 8220;). They also sent some questions for an online interview to accompany the release, and Olivier Rosseler translated my responses. If you were to write a second vers...