Monthly Archives: May 2012

Debian recollection: remember when your laptop could not reboot?

Remember that “I can’t reboot” problem has hit all of the Dell laptop on which I’ve installed Debian Linux 6. The symptom is that the screen froze after initiating a reboot. You might wait forever and it would not change. … Continue reading

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Stable Debian, new R

To get the new R with the Debian stable, here’s what you do. http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran/bin/linux/debian/ In your system’s directory for addon repositories, /etc/apt/sources.list.d, you create a file with a name “R.list” (must be “list” on the end” and in there you … Continue reading

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KU’s digicert SMIME email; my memo

Here’s the gist of it: You can sign up through KU for a Digicert certificate to secure email within KU. There’s no excuse anymore for sending secure information in email without encryption. Longer explanation For securing email communications, there are … Continue reading

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