Monthly Archives: January 2016

QEMU-System-x86_64: Guest moved used index

Posted on January 27, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

Problem Description: So, if you’re running KVM/QEMU guest domains in Fedora Server 22, it seems that adding a network device to a guest while it is operational may result in a subsequent failure to boot the guest domain (the qemu … Continue reading →

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Religious Classicism

Posted on January 26, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

For many years, I have sought a term for my religious identity.  “American Transcendentalist” was close, bearing rightly on the penultimate theological importance of Mind, its Divinity, and transcendence, and reflecting my genuine adoration for Emerson, Thoreau, and company, but I desired … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Inaccuracy Rollup: “White Privilege,” “Microaggression,” “Cultural Appropriation,” “Rape Culture,” and “Socially Constructed” Edition (whew!)

Posted on January 23, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

Just thought I’d link to this, since it’s a good representation of a reasonably lengthy series of discussions and points made over at the illustrious philosoraptor’s digs.  I’ll cross-post my comment for a good summary of the point on this … Continue reading →

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Adding the Brain as Digital Attack Surface

Posted on January 23, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

This is approximately the worst idea ever. Yeah, yeah, everyone knew it was going to happen.  Everyone knows that someone, somewhere is going to push the cyborg thing, but you’ll find me forever au naturale.  I won’t even buy a … Continue reading →

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Installing the Proprietary AMD Crimson driver on Fedora 23 with Linux Kernel 4.2.8

Posted on January 10, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

Finally:  See the next post for instructions pertinent to the latest Fedora 23 kernel (version 4.4.6-300). So, thanks to the great community forming along this thread, it looks like I can keep some instructions up despite my lack of an … Continue reading →

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Outlook 2010 only Viewable when Maximized on Windows 7

Posted on January 4, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

Resolution Up Front: Modify the shortcut used to start Outlook by right-clicking it (hold shift if clicking a Start Bar icon) and selecting “Properties” In the “Shortcut” tab, select the “Maximized” option from the drop-down menu for the “Run” field. … Continue reading →

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Dying Light Crashes in Fedora 23

Posted on January 2, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

Resolution Up Front: $ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_i386.deb ./ $ mkdir amd64 && mv libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb amd64/ $ mkdir i386 && mv libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_i386.deb i386/ $ cd amd64 $ ar vx libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb $ tar Jxvf data.tar.xz $ cp usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl3-gnutls.so.4.3.0 ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ $ cd ../i386 … Continue reading →

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