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Getting KDE 4.1.0 on a Fedora 8 machine when KDE 3 is already there

According to the Fedora FAQ one should be able to update with just this sudo yum –enablerepo=updates-testing groupupdate “KDE (K Desktop Environment)” However when I did, I ran into some icons from packages kdepim-3.5.9 and kdegraphics-4.1.0 conflicting with packages crystalsvg-icon-theme and libkipi. Here is a log… file /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/48×48/apps/kpalmdoc.png from install of kdepim-3.5.9-10.fc9.i386 conflicts with file […]

2008 11 29 hoanga fixes
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Linux is a woman

I love this quote It’s obvious that GNU/Linux is a woman. She’s high maintenance, expects everything to be given to her for free, and no matter what goes wrong… it’s your fault.

2008 11 10 hoanga geek
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Long Live Linux

Because the packaging certainly isn’t…

2008 04 08 hoanga humor
tech
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Rereading a disk partition table in Linux without rebooting

Ran into a problem with trying to partition up a disk on a running system. The idea is I wanted to create a new partition on a disk with partitions already mounted and use it without rebooting. Here’s what you’ll mostly likely run into… # sudo fdisk /dev/sda … Steps for adding disk elided … […]

2008 03 10 hoanga fixes Comments Off on Rereading a disk partition table in Linux without rebooting

Getting screwed by an upgrade (libtidy in Ubuntu 8.04 not ready for real work)

On my workstation at work I’ve been running Ubuntu 8.04 to test out something I’ll post on later. However, one thing that was driving me nuts was that tidy was blowing up with a very unhelpful message like so: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/tidy/tidybuf.rb:39: [BUG] Segmentation fault At first I thought it was some incompatibility with the gem installed […]

2008 02 20 hoanga stupid Comments Off on Getting screwed by an upgrade (libtidy in Ubuntu 8.04 not ready for real work)

How to mount FreeBSD partitions under Linux

The Gentoo Wiki to the rescue again. I’m sure you can find lots of other examples as well if you Google around.

2008 02 06 hoanga gripe
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How to play mplayer in the desktop fullscreen on Ubuntu

I was experimenting with trying to play videos in the desktop background so I can work on other things while passively watching videos that I really didn’t want to spend 100% of my concentration on. However when I tried to use mplayers -rootwin option under Ubuntu it did not show anything. After doing some Googling […]

2008 02 06 hoanga fixes
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Vmware server busting under Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

One of the joys of living on the edge of Linux releases is the fun of dependency hell. At present, vmware server does not run on the latest released kernel 2.6.24. Which means if you NEED vmware server, you’re screwed. At least until the folks at vmware update vmware server to work with the latest […]

2008 02 04 hoanga gripe Comments Off on Vmware server busting under Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

One reason I’m glad I don’t own an OLPC

Hackzine has a blog post on using a SD card as swap space for the OLPC to handle the following situation: Most of the time, the 256MB in the XO Laptop is sufficient. But I use yum to install software, and it can be very memory hungry. I often run out of RAM when installing […]

2008 01 26 hoanga geek
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KDE4 pretty but a bit rough on usability

I’ve been playing with KDE4 on my desktop at home. One of the things I have always liked about KDE is the myriad of options you can drown in while trying to configure something. However, it seems that KDE4 at present is still not up to that task… ah well. Live and learn, I guess.

2008 01 21 hoanga gripe Comments Off on KDE4 pretty but a bit rough on usability

Voice Chat for Second Life Linux client still not working

This past Saturday I tried checking out the Second Life version of the November TLUG Meeting due to some previous obligations barring me from attending in person. So I went through the rigmarole of installing Second Life on my Linux machine at home and getting it configured to work properly with these things called SLurls […]

2007 11 14 hoanga gripe
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Linux and the MSI-7265, the final straw

I’ve written before before on my battles with Linux and Core 2 Duos. After waiting a long time for Feisty to get closer to a release state I loaded up Feisty (after some initial install pains. The alternate install CD recognizes enough to install but the desktop version doesn’t and requires a USB CD-ROM or […]

2007 04 07 hoanga fixes
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Finally a gem release of ruby-opengl

Just wanted to let folks know that I’ve finally figured out how to get the build system in place for ruby-opengl to: Gemify itself Build native extensions during Gem installation using mkrf Which means (I hope) that there should be an easier way to get OpenGL working with Ruby. Currently it should support installing in […]

2007 02 21 hoanga geek
Open Source
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Reviews on the Nokia N800

Eugenia of OSNews writes a nice lengthy review on the Nokia N800. It has many improvements compared to its predecessor. Some things they got right: Good Battery life (10-15 hrs standby, 3-5 hours in actual usage) Faster processor Great Wi-Fi reception Some support for VoIP (GoogleTalk, Gizmo?) Future Skype Support Opera Web Browser version handles […]

2007 01 29 hoanga geek
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Linux and the MSI-7265 Motherboard

In an earlier post I wrote about the pains of Core 2 Duo motherboards and Linux support. Since September, there has been quite a bit of progress in the Linux community to support the JMicron SATA/PATA controller that is on the Intel P965 based motherboards. However, I’ve found that things are STILL not all rosy […]

2007 01 28 hoanga gripe Comments (1)
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