The Permanent Renaissance

Welcome to my blog about how the arts and culture serve to expand our mental horizons. You might find me riffing about almost anything that interests me, which is to say anything multicultural and with some attitude. Typically, that means music, art and architecture, design, wine and food, gadgets and Open Source, science fiction and poetry, museums, or travel. But whatever the ostensible topic at hand, the point will be how it opens up new possibilities for what we can become.

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Wednesday, January 08, 2014

January 08, 2014 at 04:38PM

I'm a little bit frustrated by Debian Linux this afternoon. I had an old laptop sitting around that had become obsolete, so I decided to install Linux on it for fun. Four or five installs and several weeks later, and it appears that Linux seems to be changing the login password I use, randomly. This glitch might lock me out immediately after the installation, or it might wait till the third time I try to log in to suddenly decide not to accept my password. (I've been locked out for half an hour. Tried again just on a whim, and Linux blithely let me in as if nothing had happened. Being locked out is bad. Instability and inconsistent operation is arguably worse.)

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