Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
One of the long overdue tasks that I managed to get done today is to upgrade the Amazon EC2 image used for PublicDomainReprints.org to Fedora Core 8. There were three small issues that I ran into and I am posting my solutions to them in hopes that they will help ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
This is a short guide for people who want to use Flash with Opera under Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy):
1. Enabled the proposed repository in System->Administration->Software Sources.
2. Go to Synaptic and install the latest flash plugin from the proposed repository.
3. Go to Opera's website and install the 9.50 beta version.
4. Start ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
After struggling for a few days to get this adapter to work, I was finally sucessful and am going to do a small writeup here to help others. I am running Fedora Core 2 with kernel v2.6.10-1.9_FC2 on Athlon 1Ghz with Wlan-NG v0.2.1-pre26.
The DLink DWL-122 USB 802.11b Adapter is based ...
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
For the past two months I have been using Linux (Fedora Core 2) as my primary desktop environment. It has been a trick finding applications to replace the ones I used on Windows. Among them was a free firewall applications from ZoneLabs called ZoneAlarm. Trying to find a similar one ...
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
Today Mozilla finally released FireFox v1.0.
Update: For Fedora Linux users like myself looking for a semi-official RPM, there is one available from Christopher Aillon (of Redhat).
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
A recent GrokLaw story mentions an interesting occurance. Apparently Jeff V. Merkey, affiliated with the Canopy Group, which itself is a major shareholder in SCO, offered to buy a snapshot of the Linux kernel for $50,000 under a BSD license:
We offer to kernel.org the sum of $50,000.00 US for ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
Today I ran into an interesting problem with my Treo 600 and Redhat's Fedora Core 2 Linux. I was trying to transfer something over to the external SD card in the Treo. A few days ago I got the external SD card reader to work after some fidgeting, but today ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2003
I saw this in the Wall Street Journal this morning (here is a link, subscription required), before this got posted on SlashDot.
From the WSJ article:
"Now, SCO is preparing to wheel out the software-industry equivalent of a nuclear bomb: It will argue that the GPL itself is invalid, says SCO's lead ...
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