Click the screenshot to view 1280×800 resolution version After working nonstop for more than 12 hours on F7, I would be spending my night @ Sandy’s place to setup & test my Wifi & maybe reuse an old 1-click script I wrote long back to join my home network (Wifi-Radar should be also good enough) [...]
‘After fretting full day over why isn’t Fedora 7 showing both of the Cores of my processor, I finally managed to find the solution & as it turned out, it was mentioned in the Fedora7 Common bugs. There’s a bug filled too – Fedora devel bug 241249. The solution, as suggested in the bug report [...]
Just managed to get the webcam on my Dell XPS M1210 working in Fedora 7 – many thanks to the Gentoo Wiki… LuvcView in action… LuvcView also supports still picture capture & AVI capture However, I’m still unable to run the same Logitech camera with any of other apps. Kopete just shows a green box [...]
Yesternight, I finally installed Fedora 7 on my laptop – only to find the boot process was hanging at “Uncompressing linux kernel” message. Adding an “acpi=off” to grub did the trick. Out of the box support for Dell XPS M1210 with default (& full) installation of Fedora seemed a bit lacking to me. The Wifi [...]
Planning to buy a digital camera any soon? Baffled by so many choices available? Need advice? …Have a look at 25 things you mush know before buying a digital camera Bored with your mouse cursor? Try DMZ (i’m currently relishing on the bigger sized ones!)
If you had been in my shoes today, you would have loved this idea – which just struck me! My ATI display had a compatibility problem with the projector in room 407 @ GNUnify & I had to resort to using the laptops available with the organizers – which had a series of problems! How [...]
The Official GNOME 2 Developer’s Guide After reading a few pages from Ritesh’s book, I was simply mesmerized! If offers just the details you need to understand the what & how of GTK+ and GLib libraries. The saying goes correct… Good books are worth all the investment. Order your own copy for INR 495 (~= [...]
I had to wait for one full day for this update to apply… after resolving numerous deps, waiting for Python 2.5, Gnome 2.17.2 rocks!
I assume that you are running a version of FC 1) Import the GPG key from the fedora server Assuming you are doing it on a FC6 base system wget -c http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY rpm –import RPM-GPG-KEY 2) Once import is done, check your rpm with rpm -V rpm_name …thanks to paranoid Lap_64 to bring this up! [...]
I managed to squash one more Evolution bug – (downstream bug) 203058, (upstream bug) 324604. This fix has one of my biggest patches …infact, this bug required two of them, one for evolution & other for evolution-data-server. I wonder why this bug creeped in when we already have a Quoted Printable strings parser in evolution-data-server [...]