Archive for October, 2007

POW: Yum installation by groups

The second in the Program of the Week (POW) is here. Yum, the Yellowdog Updater Modifer, has a very interesting feature. One which you might find useful if you want to install an entire set of packages for say a new “Windows File Server”. Yum provides this feature right out of the box these days, [...]

Posted on October 31, 2007 at 2:28 pm by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
In: Fedora, Guru, Install, POW, Tech, Tools, Yum · Tagged with: , , , , ,

GNOME Question: How does one load https links into the preferred browser?

You’ve done it, you’ve gone to your email and clicked a link. The link will happily load into your preferred browser, in my case, Firefox. If you are using gnome-terminal, its a ctrl+click on the link and it works great. I use irssi with gnome-terminal and when someone pastes a link, I ctrl+click and up [...]

Posted on October 29, 2007 at 2:31 pm by herlo · Permalink · 4 Comments
In: Fedora, GNOME, Rants, Tech · Tagged with: , , ,

*nix distribution poll, which is the best distro codename?

The fact that Ubunut, SUSE, OS X, OpenBSD and of course Fedora are coming out about one month from each other. I thought it would be useful to have a poll about which is the better name of the latest releases. Please feel free to add your vote. {democracy:1} Cheers, Herlo

Posted on October 26, 2007 at 7:55 am by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Fedora, Polls, Releases, Tech · Tagged with: , , , , , ,

Boston Red Sox (and me) at the World Series

Okay, okay, I didn’t get in, but it was sure fun to take a train trip down to the World Series to see the vibe. I’ve never been quite so close to a World Series game. The closest thing for me was when I got to go to watch the Utah Jazz get beaten by [...]

Posted on October 25, 2007 at 11:50 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Games, Passion, Rants, Tech

POW: bash-completion – Bash Auto Completion in Fedora using yum (and more)

In an attempt to consistently blog, I am starting a new series here on fedora-tutorials.com. Program of the Week (POW). Hopefully, this will excite and inform all of us about the cool programs available in Fedora. So see you next Wednesday for another program. Over the past year or so, I’ve been on the hunt [...]

Posted on October 24, 2007 at 9:29 am by herlo · Permalink · 5 Comments
In: Bash, Fedora, POW, Tech, Tools, Yum · Tagged with: , , ,

Fedora 8 to be named “werewolf”

I don’t know about you, but I believe that this name is the best ever! Its well timed too, seeing as a late October release was planned. I suppose Moonshine was good for Fedora 7, and Ubuntu does its naming convention with the latest being Gusty Gibbon. I have to say though that for sure [...]

Posted on October 22, 2007 at 10:02 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Fedora, Releases, Tech

Firefox – My Addons/Extensions

Thanks to the great “Extension List Dumper” extension, I’m happy to share with all of you my favorite extensions and a short little bit about each of them. Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.2/Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 This is a great extension for blocking ads. Using the Filterset.G component provides me with automatic updates which tell Adblock Plus [...]

Posted on October 20, 2007 at 11:42 pm by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
In: Extensions, Firefox, Install, Tech

Why is blootbot (ibot/infobot/jbot) a girl?

Some of you may have seen my mailing list posts to SLLUG, PLUG and Ubuntu Utah. If so, you are welcome to participate here and flame me for asking this question as you may have already answered it there. BUT I’m curious as to the history, a farce or truth as to why blootbot is [...]

Posted on October 18, 2007 at 11:38 am by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
In: Rants, Tech

Sexy Sexy Penguins needs an image

Yes, that’s right folks. I’m looking for a new image to adorn the top of my blog. I’ve got this pretty new theme (not shown on my site yet) but it needs a fresh new coat of penguin love. So I thought I’d share with the community and see if anyone could come up with [...]

Posted on October 17, 2007 at 9:42 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: News, Tech, Tools, WordPress

Strike that, I got kicked!

from Google! At their Mountain View campus. This week Aaron Toponce and I are in Mountain View. We decided it’d be fun to go visit Google. We snapped a few pictures, and spent about 10 minutes on their campus when all of the sudden…. Three big security guards started running at us and yelling for [...]

Posted on October 14, 2007 at 10:08 pm by herlo · Permalink · 4 Comments
In: Google, Tech