I’ve been running the development branch of Ubuntu Hardy for about three weeks now, and everything has been great, but recently, Amarok stopped downloading the CD cover image for my music. This problem has been happening for about four or five days, and since it’s not a killer error, I figured it would just be [...]
Fedora Feather has been updated. Here’s the info from contributer:
I tested this on a fresh Fedora 8 install on my laptop.
+ It now installs Adobe Acrobat
+ Fedora Version is grabbed from /etc/issue so it isn’t locked into Fedora 7.
I tested on Fedora 8.
+ the MS fonts required chkfontpath so I added a check and install [...]
Some of you may have noticed that when you try to grab a screenshot with the built-in gnome utility while compiz-fusion is enabled, you end up with a borderless window:
When what you really wanted was this:
The trick here is to use Gimp instead. Click on File -> Acquire -> Screenshot.
This was one of the easiest Fedora installs I’ve ever done. Everything except sound was usable out of the box, and the sound issue was resolved in a matter of minutes. To fix the sound, go to System –> Preferences –> Personal –> Volume Control. In the Volume Control window, click on Edit, then Preferences. [...]
It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of Ubuntu. However, I do install each new release in a virtual machine; just to see if there’s anything I like.
Believe it or not, there’s a feature in 7.10 that I absolutely love. After installing vmware-tools, I wanted to run htop to check system resources of [...]
I was just reading a post on nixCraft about how to dump an SQL database via ssh and I thought I would give it a try. It works very nicely but I would like to write about another useful layer - how to use SSH to go to a remote machine and dump via your [...]