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 […]
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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
I'm in the process of creating a set of slides at work to describe a software product we're working on. Making slides is easy. I just use OpenOffice. Publicizing the slides is just as easy. I use Slideshare.net. An interesting feature of this site is the ability to add audio […]
Creating slides with audio on Linux for SlideShare
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 […]
Dawning of a new age: A Quad-Core system finds ...
2 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
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 ...
I’ve noticed a lot of searches on xrandr in my blog stats and have been wondering what the problem is. Xrandr is a command line tool for enabling or disabling multiple display ports on your system as well as setting display resolution and even rotation. You would use it, for […]