November 10, 2008 – 3:28 pm
New Make: blogger John Park made his introduction post last week. Under his “Topics I’m likely to post about” was this, which should be the mantra for every geek, geek-wannabe, and folk who just want to do stuff:
Diving into projects with an imbalanced enthusiasm-to-knowledge ratio
The big E. The first ingredient in any quest. [...]
November 9, 2008 – 12:24 pm
Yesterday, like most Saturdays of late, was spent in front of my Fedora 10 laptop, while the teevee was tuned in to NASCAR and/or NCAA Football. And both activities are enhanced by a cold one or two.
Yesterday, the cold and within reach brew got a little too close to the laptop; I glanced up from [...]
November 9, 2008 – 11:18 am
I had that problem. This worked for me:
yum install libflashsupport
Restart Firefox.
And, to test it out, I played this little toe-tapper:
Your choice of music is up to you.
-k-
Fedora
November 1, 2008 – 4:30 pm
Here’s how not to invoke rdiff-backup, presuming your USB drive is mounted on /media/disk:
rdiff-backup –force / /media/disk
That’s how I did it the first time; I thought that backup was running an awfully long time, and that there was a helluva lot more stuff on the USB drive than even existed on the drive being backed [...]
November 1, 2008 – 3:33 pm
One post for the price of two; that’s how we survive these troubled times. I’m preparing to upgrade my production Linux laptop1 to Fedora 10 Beta. The other devices2 all happily, and mostly painlessly, run F10 now. They were easy to upgrade, each of them not having any data to speak of.
The [...]
October 26, 2008 – 1:27 pm
My little Dell mini has, as do all my laptops, a Synaptics TouchPad. I hate touch pads; I find them difficult to control, hard to click, and generally to be a real PITA. I prefer to use a Targus mini-USB mouse for pointing and clicking. The Targus mouse works well, but the [...]
October 26, 2008 – 10:58 am
Casual and not-so-casual readers of this blog know I’m a Linux/Unix guy. I fire up the work peecee for e-mail; since moving to my new location a month ago, I don’t even do that anymore. My new cube has only one network connnection, and that is used by my Linux workstation, running a Gnome [...]
October 19, 2008 – 1:14 pm
A crispness in the air.
Frost warning for overnight; time to drain the outside faucets.
Tweakin’ up the Dell Mini.
Taking apart a fan in the bedroom for my little bride so she can clean it.Damn fan resembles a Chia pet. Even in the best of homes, etc.
NASCAR from Martinsville, the nicest little track on the circuit. Beautiful [...]
October 19, 2008 – 11:41 am
This weekend, I managed to get my Dell Inspiron Mini 9, christened ebony, up and running reliably on Fedora 10 Beta. I’ve had the Mini for a little more than a week, and immediately installed Fedora, using the Fedora Live USB1. The initial F10 install was a reasonably smooth process; sufficiently so that I [...]
October 11, 2008 – 3:59 pm
Being a geek for hire has its rewards. Sometimes. these rewards include meeting luminaries in the Open Source Community. Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting two such folk.
On Tuesday, I shook the hand of Paul Frields , current chairman of the Fedora Project Board. In just the few short minutes [...]
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