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The terms of service apparently changed for imdb.com and the original imdb.pl script in MythTV that is used to retrieve data about movies (via the Video Manager) is no longer working properly. The results vary but in my case the director information was not be pulled properly. There is a […]

Update to MythVideo imdb.pl – getting the right metadata for ...

Sun July 05, 2009 in Linux / MythTV tagged Fedora / MythTV / tmdb / Video

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

Sat June 13, 2009 in Fedora / Linux tagged acer / anaconda / dual monitors / Fedora / gnome / intel / intel driver / java / java native interface / jni / mingw / MythTV / nvidia / nvidia geforce / PulseAudio / Wordpress / xorg (updated 5872 days ago)

Someone asked on the Boulder Linux User Group mailing list today for recommendations for video cards. He wanted to avoid NVidia. One of the responses pointed out this very handy web site: 3D Graphics hardware performance using Free Software drivers (X.Org DRI). I noticed just recently that my NVidia GeForce […]

3D graphics hardware for Linux

Wed April 29, 2009 in GIMP / Linux / NVidia / Wacom / X11 tagged Fedora / GIMP / nvidia / nvidia geforce / Wacom / X11

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

Thu March 26, 2009 in Audio / Fedora / Linux / PulseAudio / x86-64 tagged 64bit amd / f10 / Fedora / flash player plugin / gnome / keyboard shortcuts / keycodes / logitech internet navigator / MythTV / X11 / xine / xmodmap

AcidRip hasn’t been updated in a long time. In fact, I’m not even sure anyone is maintaining it anymore. But I still use it quite a bit. Today I noticed, after an yum update for F10, that the previews just wouldn’t work anymore. So I looked at the debug window […]

AcidRip mod: Fix for faulty previews

Sat March 14, 2009 in Audio / Hardware / Linux tagged acidrip / f10 / mplayer / sdl / update / Video / yum (updated 5969 days ago)

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

Mon March 09, 2009 in Audio / Fedora / Firefox / Linux / PulseAudio tagged f10 / Fedora / firefox / gnome / MythTV / MythWeb / proxy / PulseAudio / sound drivers

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 […]

Dawning of a new age: A Quad-Core system finds ...

Sun March 01, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / NVidia / Video / x86-64 tagged 64bit cpu / acer / dual monitors / f10 / gdm / gnome / intel / java / laptop / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / rpm / suse / ubuntu / Video / xine

I did a yum update on my F10 x86-64 box at work today and discovered a minor bug in the packaging: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib64/libmarblewidget.so.4 conflicts between attempted installs of kdeedu-libs-4.1.2-2.fc10.x86_64 and kdeedu-marble-4.2.0-7.fc10.x86_64 A google for this found only one mention on a fedora forum, but it was in […]

F10 update bug: libmarble (kdeedu libs) conflicts on x86-64

Thu February 26, 2009 in Fedora / Linux tagged bugzilla / conflicts / f10 / Fedora / fedora forum / google translation / kde / libmarblewidget / marble / minor bug / packaging / update / yum (updated 5985 days ago)

I was reading Slashdot this morning and ran across a link to a story about the Internet instability last week caused by minor bugs in two routers that propagated across the planet in something like 30 seconds. While the story itself is interesting (a good read if you’re into how […]

The Internet needs no bailout

Sun February 22, 2009 in Open Source / Politics / Security / Software Development tagged bailout / internet instability / open protocols / Open Source / proprietary solutions / renesys / routers / software implementation

I’ve been working with the various incarnations of Red Hat Linux, including Fedora, since before the company went public. In that time I’ve done more than just a few upgrades from one release to another. With each upgrade I learn just a little more about administering my own Linux system. […]

The Everyday Guide to Fedora Upgrades

Wed February 18, 2009 in Fedora / Linux / Personal tagged f10 / Fedora / GIMP / gnome / intel / intel driver / Linux / mysql / MythTV / nfs / nvidia / partition / red hat / sane / ssmtp / X11 / xorg / yum

I’ve been using the SANE backends with the XSane plugin for GIMP for many years now, but because of digital photography I don’t seem to need the scanner much these days. When we got the senior photos for my daughter, however, I needed a way to make a few copies […]

Setting up scanners under Fedora 10

Sun February 15, 2009 in Art and Graphics / Fedora / GIMP / Linux / Scanners tagged epson / Epson Perfection 1260 / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / Linux / rpm / sane / Scanners / xsane (updated 5994 days ago)

If you’re using xrandr on a box with an Intel graphics chip in order to setup your dual displays then you might have noticed that GNOME moves its main panel to the monitor connected to the external VGA port. This happens because the Intel chip says that the external VGA […]

Intel graphics, xrandr and GNOME: the case of the ...

Wed February 11, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11 tagged dual monitors / gnome / intel / kde / laptop / MythTV / projector / vga port / xrandr

Michael J. Hammel

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