Fedora

I’ve upgraded pretty much all my systems, both at home and at work, to F7 now. I’m not completely pleased with it – the issues with the intel driver on my laptop are still a problem. But something that is more prevalent across all machines is general, perceived performance. I […]

Fedora 7 performance issues

Wed October 17, 2007 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / gnome / intel / java / kde (updated 6407 days ago)

Well, I’m getting further along. I now understand how to use the intel driver better, well enough to setup dual head dynamically using xrandr. But there is a serious limitation that makes me think either the Intel guys don’t understand X11 or there is a shift in Xorg away from […]

i915GM/Fedora 7: Dual head success with intel driver, but ...

Tue October 09, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr (updated 6415 days ago)

I posted a question about getting my i915GM graphics working on my laptop with Fedora 7. Kevin Fenzi of tummy.com, who works on the Fedora project, suggested trying a stock xorg.conf config then plugin the VGA output and do xrandr –auto. The stock xorg.conf uses the intel driver, which he […]

i915GM and Fedora 7: intel bad, i810 good

Mon October 08, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr

While making notes on my upgrade to Fedora 7 I discovered that my WYSIWIG editor in WordPress 2.2.1 was seriously broken. When I hit the Save or Save and Continue Editing buttons I was told that navigating away from the current page would lose all my edits. So I had […]

Another upgrade issue: TinyMCE Editor in WordPress 2.2.1

Sun September 30, 2007 in Wordpress tagged Fedora / Wordpress (updated 6424 days ago)

It’s that time again. Time to upgrade all the servers in the house (and at work, probably early next month) to the latest Fedora release. I started with my MythTV server since it only serves two purposes: run as the MythTV backend and run BOINC. I jumped into this a […]

Upgrading to Fedora 7 and MythTV 0.20.2 (Schedules Direct)

Sat September 29, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / MythTV / X11 tagged atrpms / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / Linux / livna / mysql / MythTV / rpm / Video / xrandr / yum (updated 6421 days ago)

My sister needed me to pull some pictures off her digital camera so we could place an ad in our parents home paper for their 50th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, she didn’t have the USB cable for the camera. However, the camera had an SD card. And my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi […]

Getting the Acer Aspire 1691 SD slot working under Fedora ...

Sat July 28, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux / Open Source / Software Development tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / graphics / Linux / rpm / ubuntu (updated 6487 days ago)

My wife and I are planning this year's landscaping projects for our new home (we bought it last August). I thought a clever way to do that would be to run some landscaping software I bought a few years back. It's a Windows 98 application. I have a copy of […]

Getting a windows app running under Fedora Core 5

Sun March 18, 2007 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux / MythTV / Video (updated 6619 days ago)

I was trying to install a package on an FC5 box at home today and discovered that yum was being uncooperative. Well, I blame it on yum but it was actually rpm. There were no error messages, no indication at all that something was wrong. It just hung. I noticed […]

How to fix a yum when it hangs with no ...

Sat March 17, 2007 in Linux / Open Source tagged atrpms / Fedora / Linux / rpm / yum (updated 6604 days ago)

I just read a very good (and short) article on working with rootkit checker utilities. A rootkit is a set of tools that crackers (the evil doers) use to break into your system. Linux is just as vulnerable to this sort of thing as any other OS if the system […]

Linux Security: checking for rootkits and other evil doers

Tue March 06, 2007 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux (updated 6632 days ago)

I just did an update on my FC5 boxes and found that FC5 Extras will update Xine in a way that removes functionality that was there previously. This includes the ability to play DVDs. I’m not sure the reasoning, though I think it has something to do with removing "non-free" […]

FC5 extras/ FC6: update to Xine removes support for ...

Fri January 12, 2007 in Linux / Open Source / Video tagged Fedora / livna / rpm / yum (updated 6673 days ago)

There is a lot of information on the net about using WordPress as a CMS (content management system), in other words using WP as the foundation for a regular (non-blog) website. But that information is kind of spread out and not completely clear on the process required. Fortunately, it’s very […]

Using WordPress as a CMS: making e-Commerce Lite work on ...

Tue December 12, 2006 in Wordpress tagged Fedora / Linux / linux format / lwn / rpm / Wordpress (updated 6716 days ago)

Adobe released the Flash Player 9 plugin for Linux this week. I downloaded it and tried it under identical software configs (FC5 & Firefox 1.5.0.7) on two different machines. I tried viewing my two favorite sites that contain Flash content: ABC's Lost and SciFi.com's Battlestar Galactica . With the old […]

No joy with Flash Player 9 Beta under Fedora Core ...

Sat October 21, 2006 in Art and Graphics / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost (updated 6768 days ago)

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