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No Love For Digsby

Digsby

I had an account some time ago and recently I have been going out of my way to close accounts that I no longer need nor use. So I download the Digsby client after reading that there is no way to actually close the account on the web without visiting the forum.

What a mess that was, first off the download comes from Brothersoft which in my opinion is the worst of the worst with all the crap that is hosted there. Once the download finishes I look forward to deceptive practices of installing additional toolbars that I don’t need by making the menu choices near impossible to differentiate between what I want and crap that I don’t need.

I know that many other freeware vendors do this but at least they have a common thing to look for when installing there program that may or may not suck.


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Deluge on Fedora 13

Deluge

Deluge

I just upgraded to Fedora 13 and am just impressed that I don’t get the “No root device found error” that Fedora 12 gave me. In short I skipped Fedora 12 because I got tired of fussing with it. So Fedora 13 works and if you have just upgraded it might be a good idea to build Deluge 1.2.3 or 1.3.0_RC1+ on your system instead of waiting for the repo maintainers to do it for you.

The more recent builds of Deluge don’t seem to be too picky anymore about building and working right out of the box, below you will find the commands that you will need to compile Deluge 1.2 or 1.3 series <–HERE–>

Or run the commands below.

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