After upgrading to Fedora 14 at work I did some builds against various kernels, u-boot, buildroot and toolchains we use. I ran into an interesting problem. make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mjhammel/src/cei/sysbuild/bld/buildroot-2010.05.xcc/output/toolchain/linux-2.6.32.14′ /home/mjhammel/src/cei/sysbuild/bld/buildroot-2010.05.xcc/output/toolchain/linux-2.6.32.14/arch/powerpc/Makefile:178: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. ?A bit of googling shows that make 3.82 changed in a way […]
Fedora
I upgraded to Fedora 14 at work yesterday. For the most part the typical processes I’ve written about before worked fine. But two places exposed some caveats. First, network based installation using NFS doesn’t work. What happens is that after the bootloader info is taken some attempt to access the […]
Fedora 14 mini review
2 I use ssmtp for my MTA (mail transfer agent) under Fedora. Up till now I’ve always just moved /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way and symlinked it to where I have ssmtp installed. Today, after upgrading a work machine to F14, I finally bit the bullet and figured out how to […]
ssmtp: making it the alternative to sendmail under Fedora
I've spent the past month preparing for and implementing a migration from Comcast cable TV to relying on both off-air HDTV and Internet video. The easy part was dumping Comcast, though they magically managed to NOT turn off billing because they had to send out a service tech (for no […]
From Cable TV to Internet TV – A Nerd’s Journey
Today I released a complete rewrite of XNotesPlus, which I've renamed XNotesNG. This version was properly architected (well, mostly) and implemented in Java. Unlike other Java developers, I don't use IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans. Instead, I rely on the tried and true tools of kernel developers: cscope and vi. […]
XNotesNG: XNotesPlus never dies, it just evolves
I'm working with libvirtd/virt-manager/qemu at work. I have a bunch of F11 systems installed and working just fine. Today I tried one of the extra lab boxes, same OS config, but when I tried to use the virt-* commands I'd get an error: mjhammel(tty0)$ sudo virsh –connect qemu:///system error: failed […]
virsh/libvirt error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out. Installing additional applications The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines. xpdf – a […]
Upgrade addendum: other packages of interest, configuring a Wacom ...
2 With the upgrade to F11 I’ve discovered that when I install a DVD GNOME automatically mounts it with an option (right click on the desktop icon) for copying the DVD to an iso image. The ISO is typically 4-8GB which is roughly 3-4 times the size of the AVI files […]
Switching from AVI’s to DVD ISOs for use with MythTV
5 Fedora 11 was released this past week and I’ve already downloaded the various netinst and DVD ISO images for both 32bit and 64bit systems at home. I’ve got 5 computers to upgrade: 1 development server, 1 MythTV server, my desktop, 1 Myth client and my laptop. Since I’ve now […]
Preparing for Fedora 11: Installation on the Acer laptop
I’ve been having problems playing flash video on my new system at home. The system is a 64bit AMD running F10. Flash video plays but the audio skips a lot. I had similar problems with other applications but was able to get around it by using the right audio setup, […]
Quickies: Flash 64, fixing skipping audio, mapping keys to applications
Prior to F10 I always created a second user that I allowed to display applications on my desktop that I use to launch a second instance of Firefox. There are lots of reasons to want to do this. The most obvious is that the second user is completely isolated from […]
Multiple Firefox instances with different network settings
For the past 4 years I’ve worked happily at home with my Acer laptop. I’ve discussed many of the issues I’ve had with running this laptop with Fedora. For the most part, despite how those posts may sound, I’ve actually been pretty happy with both the laptop and with running […]