Monthly Archives: October 2014

Installing RGtk2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Posted on October 30, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

So after my nice secure installation of R in my environment, I found that my users couldn’t even accomplish the simple (and fundamental) task of installing the RGtk2 package.  The initial attempt met with: * installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ … … Continue reading →

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The Compatibility of Islam and Liberalism

Posted on October 27, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Introduction My good friend over at philosoraptor.blogspot.com asked me about the commensurability of Islam with liberal principles, and while I simply lack the time to put together the exhaustive and complete response such a question deserves and I retain the … Continue reading →

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Securing R on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Posted on October 26, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Update:  Check out the next post in this series for help with the GTK 2.8.0 dependency requirement for the common R package RGtk2. So, as I wrote earlier, I have a group of users who need to use the statistical … Continue reading →

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Diagnosing POODLE (CVE-2014-3566) Vulnerability

Posted on October 21, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Well, it’s kind of a silly vulnerability to be quite frank.  It’s based on a very outdated and obsolete protocol with many superior replacements already in production and it’s a man-in-the-middle attack that requires a significant amount of technical expertise and a serious … Continue reading →

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Configuring SSH Port Forwarding (with OpenSSH)

Posted on October 21, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Ok, so like a bunch of other sites out there, I’m going to start this post with a complaint about the lack of well-written documentation on this subject on the Internet.  Even Ubuntu’s instructions leave a lot to be desired (see … Continue reading →

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Installing R on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6

Posted on October 13, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Update:  Be sure to check out the next post in this series:  Securing R on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Some of my users need to be able to run the statistical programming language R on a few systems.  Typically, installing … Continue reading →

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Islam

Posted on October 9, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

This post is being created because my response to a blog post over at philosoraptor exceeds the character limit, so I just linked to it. I apologize for this post being beneath the standard to which it should adhere.  I … Continue reading →

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Installing the Proprietary AMD Catalyst 14.9 (fglrx) Driver on Fedora 20 (with kernel 3.16!)

Posted on October 2, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Update:  If you are using kernel 3.17, see the next post in this series for installation instructions; a patch is required! Good news, everyone! The new Catalyst 14.9 driver for Linux installs on Fedora 20 using the latest kernel (3.16.3-200 … Continue reading →

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