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Ubuntu Users: Enable XGL on Dapper Drake

August 24, 2006 in Notes to Self by jdanger | No comments

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Ubuntu Users: Enable XGL on Dapper Drake

Posted by Stian Karlsen on June 12th, 2006

I was finally able to find a decent guide on how to set up XGL on Dapper Drake, don’t get me wrong, the guides over at Ubuntuforums.org are great as well, but this one took care of business within the first thirty seconds of trying, literally speaking.

I’ll be quoting the main parts of the guide full-on here. Firstly, you need to download the required packages, apt get the follwoing.

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Fuck Yes! They know what’s up!

August 24, 2006 in Notes to Self by jdanger | No comments

How to really fight terrorists: Anti-terror
Bruce Schneier has an excellent piece up today on how to really, effectively fight terrorism: anti-terror:

Another thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn’t engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liquids. And imagine that the press didn’t write about it endlessly, and that the politicians didn’t use the event to remind us all how scared we should be. If we’d reacted that way, then the terrorists would have truly failed.It’s time we calm down and fight terror with antiterror. This does not mean that we simply roll over and accept terrorism. There are things our government can and should do to fight terrorism, most of them involving intelligence and investigation — and not focusing on specific plots.

But our job is to remain steadfast in the face of terror, to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to not panic every time two Muslims stand together checking their watches. There are approximately 1 billion Muslims in the world, a large percentage of them not Arab, and about 320 million Arabs in the Middle East, the overwhelming majority of them not terrorists. Our job is to think critically and rationally, and to ignore the cacophony of other interests trying to use terrorism to advance political careers or increase a television show’s viewership.

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