Archive for November, 2007
Why do they do that?
As an experienced traveler, I regularly run into a situation where the housekeeping staff will put the plug in the tub and leave it there. Why do they do that?
My reasoning is that its pure laziness on their part, mostly because I am the guest and shouldn’t have to be greeted with a tub full [...]
Thunderbird! You’re Annoying us all!
Let me get this out first, I’m a avid fan of all things Mozilla. Even with the limitations they cause, the problems I’ve heard about Firefox and Thunderbird and all that Jazz, I’m still a big fan, current and future consumer of these wonderful applications.
BUT!
Why is it that a bug that has been logged [...]
POW: Agave
An interesting tool I came across in the last week or so is this week’s Program of the Week: Agave, from the GNOME Community. Recently, we’ve been working on a new logo for the Utah Open Source Foundation, and needed to come up with some simple color schemes that would work well with our [...]
POW: apg, Automated Password Generator
This week’s program may seem like a bit of a cop out, but it really isn’t. I’ve regularly found myself in need of some quick passwords to hand out to users that are both semi-secure and easy to remember. With apg, this can become a reality.
First, install apg:
# yum install apg
.. snip ..
Install [...]
Locate vs Find
Tonight at the Ubuntu Utah User Group I presented about Locate vs Find.
The slides are here and written in S5.
Kevin Kubasik also presented on Desktop Search in Gnome. It was pretty cool as well.
The presentations went very well and was streamed and recorded by Utah Open Source Foundation.
POW: Bluetooth Improvements in Fedora 8
The POW is going to be the improvements made in the Bluetooth functionality in Fedora 8. I’m actually quite impressed with it as its been a bit of a challenge to keep my little mouse connected in the past.
Fedora 8 provides a new extended technology with its bluez-gnome package. In fact, the simplicity [...]
Werewolf (Fedora 8) Upgrade in 3 Easy Steps Using yum
Recently, there was a request in one of my comments on this post. The request was for an easy way to upgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8. So I took this on as a bit of a challenge. I feel pretty comfortable with yum and I thought it would be a [...]
Funny man page for rsyslogd
While doing my normal reading about new features in Fedora, I came across this snippet in the rsyslogd man page. The section I was reading was in regards to how to deal with security threats.
4. Disabling inet domain sockets will limit risk to the local machine.
5. [...]
POW: Codec Buddy
This week’s Program of the Week is a bit ahead of its release. The package is Codec Buddy, and is currently slated for release in Fedora 8 tomorrow.
Codec Buddy, with a little help from the Fedora and Fluendo development teams has grown into something that could be great. I see Codec Buddy really [...]
Thoughts on the Fedora Upgrade – Part 1
So its been a whole two days since I upgraded to Werewolf. I love it! Most everything works out of the box (OOTB), wireless, bluetooth, even suspend/resume seem to be possible for the first time!
But one of the oddities I encountered while upgrading was the names of the packages. Mind you, this [...]
