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My media server died this past week. Actually, just the hard drive. It was running Fedora 14 and needed to be updated anyway. This server hooks into my Sony Bravia TV via HDMI using an nVidia GeForce 9800GT. After installing Fedora 16 to a new drive, I loaded kmod-nvidia and […]

Media servers: Flash, Hulu, Amazon, ARM and Fedora 16

Sun July 29, 2012 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Firefox / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / omapfb / Open Source / Software Development / TV / Via Motherboards / X11 / XBMC tagged adobe / amazon / Android / ARM / beagleboard / BeagleBox / Bravia / drm / Fedora / firefox / Flash / flash player / flash player plugin / hulu / media servers

So I've upgraded three machines to F16 (from F14) so far, two at work and a laptop at home. The latter I spent a lot of time tweaking to work as much like my old GNOME 2 setup. XFce comes close but there are some tweaks an I have a […]

F16 an XFce: minor bits migrating from GNOME 2

Sun December 11, 2011 in Fedora / General / Linux / XFce tagged compositor / firefox / gnome / intel 915gm / laptop / WebKit / xfapplet / xfce / xscreensaver (updated 4820 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

I use GNOME or XFce for my desktop environments at home and work. In both places I tend to listen to movies while I work. I have a large collection of DVDs and even a larger collection of VHS tapes. The former are mostly ripped to disk now but the […]

Using Xine with your MythTV videos: small screens while you ...

Wed January 21, 2009 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Movies / MythTV / Open Source / TV / Video / X11 tagged desktop environments / f10 / Fedora / firefox / GIMP / gnome / livna / MythTV / nfs / rpm / vhs tapes / Video / xfce / xine

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

Sat January 03, 2009 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

I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.7 for both my personal blog and my book (the Artist’s Guide to the GIMP) web site. As part of the upgrade I switched both sites to a new theme: ByteTips. This theme is extremely clean when viewed in Firefox and seems to work well […]