October 2011 Archives
Friday, 2011-10-28 13:53 MDT
A Quote For Climate Skeptics And Their Critics
Maturity may be recognized in the slowness with which a man believes.
Baltasar Gracián, Oraáulo manual y arte de prudencia (1653)
Quoted in Will and Ariel Durant, VII The Story of Civilization 296 (1961)
Come to think of it, a lot of people could afford to contemplate that observation.
Thursday, 2011-10-27 11:25 MDT
Debian 6.0.3 on Lenovo R51
Due to concerns about the future of Gnome 3 and Ubuntu's Unity, I installed Debian Squeeze version 6.0.3 with XFCE on my semi-retired Lenovo R51. Two installation gotchas are noted on that page.