Daily Archives: Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

Last year, Amazon enabled buyers to contribute to presidential campaigns. Today, Amazon and the Red Cross enabled buyers to help with disaster relief. As of 21:57 EST, they have raised Total Collected: $3,264,233.06 # of Payments: 55974

The Associated Press reports that few animals were killed in the tsunami. ALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka – Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the tsunamis — indicating … Continue reading →

Dear Spammers: I’m getting more than a little annoyed by the comment spam. None of your spams will be permitted, and none will contribute to an increase in PageRank. If you would re-enter civil society, I welcome you. Otherwise, I … Continue reading →

Maybe if setup.exe were a shell script, then the author would have fixed his mistake. Anyway, when one upgrades from a down-level version of Internet Explorer to any version greater than or equal to 4.0, said installer program, or one … Continue reading →

With the great disaster in our minds, and the end of the fiscal year looming, now is a good time to balance our accounts. How much did you spend this year on goods from companies which oppose you? How much … Continue reading →

In response to the error message error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm error: cannot open Packages index using db3 – Invalid argument (22) error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument no packages rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn’t match environment … Continue reading →

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