Google's One Privacy Policy To Rule Them All
Google recently announced its new privacy policy. This new privacy policy is intended to unify the privacy policies of each of their services into a single policy, and to increase the exchange of data amongst these services. This new policy, set to take effect March 1, sums up the privacy nightmare that Google has become. As the services that they provide have grown in number, many of us (myself included) have become increasingly dependent on Google. My personal list of Google shame is: Android (a phone and a tablet) Google Plus Gmail Google Reader Google Calendar Google Talk Google Voice...
Updating an initramfs Image in Debian or Fedora
If you make a change to a configuration file that needs to be reflected in your Linux boot process (such as mdadm.conf), you’ll need to add it to your initramfs image. This process varies by distribution (although most that I have used share the method I describe for Debian). To update initramfs for Debian, run the command: update-initramfs -u In Fedora, run the command dracut -f /boot/initramfs-currentimage where initramfs-currentimage is replaced with the name of the image you are currently using. Both commands can be used with different switches to create new images as well, but since that involves updating...
Website Migration and Upgrade
Today finally saw me move off the little server in my room onto a DreamHost hosting plan. This was motivated by a number of factors, not the least of which was the fact I had a total of several weeks of downtime last year between the April tornadoes and various hardware failures. Add that to the fact that I’m getting increases in readership and I decided it would be best to stop gambling that my hardware doesn’t just give out. This same migration also saw me move to Drupal 7, and add several more domains to point to this site:...
Image Module Breaking Drupal
Apparently the Image module I’ve got installed is breaking the current install of Drupal (at least with my server configuration). I don’t have enough time to try and get everything working with that module again, so if any images are suddenly missing, that would be why.
Focus Follows Mouse in Gnome Shell
Having recently moved my desktop to Fedora 15 I am now using Gnome Shell (more on this later). However, as with many of the configuration settings for Gnome, having focus follow mouse is no longer something you can set using installed graphical programs. Fortunately, a one line command can rectify this for those of us who have become accustomed to using focus follows mouse (if you’ve never tried out focus follows, you should give it a shot for a week or so - you might be suprised out how nice it is). To use focus follows mouse, run the command:...