I prefer to use git over CVS. Unfortunately the main repository where all Fedora packages are located uses CVS. Takis blog contains a very useful guide for working with git on projects located on a CVS-server. Thanks Takis!
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I prefer to use git over CVS. Unfortunately the main repository where all Fedora packages are located uses CVS. Takis blog contains a very useful guide for working with git on projects located on a CVS-server. Thanks Takis!
On the Fedora Wiki there is an excellent article which made my Fedora 11 (x86_64) run Flash 10. This is a copy-paste from the article: Adobe also has a pre-release version of a 64-bit plugin. Until this is supported via yum, you will need to do the following: 1. Download the .tar.gz version from Adobe here. 2. Use "gtar -xzvf" to extract libflashplayer.so and put it in either in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ or ~/.
YouTube does not allow videos to be longer than 10 minutes. I really have the need to split videos... Googling for this issue brought me to MisterHowTo.com. Splitting a video looks like this (first 6 minutes and 5 seconds): $ mencoder -endpos 00:06:05 -ovc copy -oac copy leeuw-tuominen_0-2.AVI -o leeuw-tuominen_0-2_a.avi MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2)
It would be great if squash becomes an Olympic sport in 2016! More promotion at http://squash2016.info.
The network policy at my work makes me use a proxy-server. Unfortunately it looks like x.org or freedesktop.org does not support git usage over http. Just browsing to http://anongit.freedesktop.org does show an error which lets me guess that this server supports cloning over http. Indeed, afer some wrong URLs I've found a working one! export http_proxy=http://proxy:81 git clone http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver.git xorg-xserver A complete list of projects is available from http://cgit.
Google Contacts is an Add-On for Thunderbird which creates an additional address book with your Google contacts. Great tool!
Dag Wieers wrote a very nice and simple blogpost called "OBEX for dummies. This post helped me getting bluetooth file-sharing work in less than five minutes. Thanks Dag! Tried to post a comment on the blog, however that failed for some reason.
That grumpy BSD guy: Into a new year, slowly pounding the gates makes me think again about switching my Linux server (with lots of hacking attempts) to a more peaceful OpenBSD...
It's very uncool that some of the keys on my HP/Compaq nc6400 are not working by default. I get following messages in dmesg: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 ' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 ' to make it known. Jiri Koshina pointed me to HAL Keymap Quirks which is written by a Red Hat engineer.
Takis blog: CVS to GIT and back contains very nice info for using a CVS-server and a git-client. Thanks Takis!