Yearly Archives: 2009

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I’m a constant tinkerer on my computers.  While I hate system administration I like to experiment with things.  But a computer is a virtual world.  What you get is visual and (in some cases) auditory.  You don’t get a hands on feeling.  You don’t really build something substantial.  I think […]

makezine.tv: Getting my fix of hands on projects

 in dept 56 / Holiday lighting  tagged colorado springs / dept 56 / dept56 / disney / disneyworld / electric light parade / electrical lighting / graphics / holiday / holiday theme / Make Magazine / makezine.tv / mickey and friends (updated 5864 days ago)
My displeasure grows with my latest upgrade.  F10 on my laptop caused my firefox and evolution sessions to always start up in offline mode.  I’m never in offline mode – I have a cable modem and I’m always connected to the Internet.  So I wasn’t sure why things had changed.  […]

Fedora 10 and Firefox upgrade complaints

 in Fedora / Linux / Printing  tagged chkconfig / dual monitors / epson / evolution / f10 / f9 / Fedora / firefox / intel driver / laptop / Linux / multihead / networkmanager / Open Source / printing / printing issue / r280 / red hat / wifi
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Over the holidays I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 (previously I had only upgraded my MythTV server).  The upgrade went fairly smoothly following the information from my previous post on upgrading a MythTV server to F10.  However, my laptop supports dual monitors.  Of course, that didn’t work out of […]

Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead

 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / X11  tagged acer / aspire / dual monitors / Fedora / freedesktop / gdm / graphics / holiday / intel / intel driver / laptop / Linux / linux format / multihead / multimedia / MythTV / Open Source / red hat / rpm / sports / vga port / Video / video memory / virtual display / X11 / xorg / xrandr (updated 5958 days ago)