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Review: A few days with Fedora 8 Test 2
2007-09-22 15:36:00 I just upgraded my laptop to F8T2 several days ago. Heres some of my experience of the journey. Like Moonshine (F7), Fedor a 8 Test 2 releases several ISOs to choose from. The classical DVD installer, a Desktop LiveCD, a KDE LiveCD, plus 2... [[ ... ]] More About: Review , Days
Hunting for Internship
2007-09-20 23:56:00 I'm currently looking for internship placements around for my next semester. In my university, Internship / Industrial Training is a compulsory 14 credit hours subject - which will last for 8 months. I havent get any offers yet from companies which... [[ ... ]] More About: Hunting , Hunt
31st August - Malaysia Independence Day Anniversary .. and TMnut blocked my
2007-08-31 17:33:00 (Flag img taken from Ditesh's post) Okay .. its 31st August again .. the anniversary of Malaysia independence from Great Britain .. and I'm at home for a holiday .. and guess what .. I noticed a shocking discovery .. The DARNED TMnut blocked my... [[ ... ]] More About: Anniversary , Independence , Independence Day
Status of Compiz Fusion packages submission into Fedora
2007-08-26 05:02:00 I noticed Adel Gaddlah ( drago01 ) have submitted several compiz-fusion packages for review in BZ. He already pushed compiz-bcop into rawhide and in the process of getting the fusion plugins reviewed #253692 Review Request: compiz-fusion -... [[ ... ]] More About: Fusion , Fedora , Compiz , Submission , Status
Getting Compiz Fusion into Fedora | UiTM iHack 2007 Result
2007-08-24 19:30:00 Getting Compiz Fusion into Fedora Progress compiz-bcop ( #247405 ) package passed review a around 2 weeks ago .. but i just noticed today that i need a sponsor to get that package into fedora .... err .... some help ??? .. i'm not familiar with the... [[ ... ]] More About: Compiz Fusion , Result
Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 packages | UiTM iHack 2007 | Hakaze 2ch-Type Forum/BBS
2007-08-17 10:07:00 Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 Packages Its available in the main repo now .. both i386 and x86_64 packages .. a little sidenote about the packages : 1 primary thing .. its not compatible with compiz 0.5.2 package from rawhide due to the one on rawhide is... [[ ... ]] More About: Forum , Compiz , Type , Compiz Fusion
Compiz-Fusion just released official tarballs
2007-08-14 10:41:00 I just noticed something a few minutes ago .. Compiz Fusion have released their official tarballs!!!! http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/08/13 /compiz-fusion-our-first-release-052/ This is nice ... guess i'll skip doing homeworks for today and... [[ ... ]] More About: Released , Compiz Fusion , Official
A busy 2 weeks
2007-08-02 06:22:00 AAAA------(#-#)-----AAA!!!! new semester have started .. timetable clashes everywhere ... had to drop and add different set of subjects .. *sigh ..... and lectures have started giving project works on the first week .. (0.o) heck ... i want to... [[ ... ]] More About: Busy , Weeks
USB "Key" based authentication using pam_usb in Fedora
2007-07-21 03:08:00 What Is pam_usb? pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary USB Flash Drives. It works with any application supporting PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module), such as su, any login manager (GDM, KDM), etc. The pam_usb package... [[ ... ]] More About: Fedora , Base , Fedor , Then
Wiki , Compiz fusion 20070716git, and package review
2007-07-17 19:06:00 It has been 2 weeks+ since I last post. Here goes Compiz Fusion 20070716git A little update on the compiz fusion packages: fusion-icon is now separated into 3 packages. fusion-icon, fusion-icon-gtk,fusion-icon-qt I have included in 20070716git... [[ ... ]] More About: Review , Wiki , Compiz Fusion
Update on Compiz Fusion repository 20070630git
2007-07-01 20:58:00 The repository have been updated to 20070630git packages Several changes in the RPM Packaging the metapackage that will pull all compiz bits is now known as compiz-all. compiz-core is renamed back to compiz. compiz-* packages no longer pulls... [[ ... ]] More About: Fusion , Update , Compiz , Compiz Fusion , Posi
Low bandwidth : Repository Moved!!
2007-06-30 09:45:00 The domain kagesenshi.org (izhar) has reached 80% of its bandwidth limit (2434.04/3000.00 Megs). !! Do not respond to this message. Your reply will go nowhere. !! yikes!! repository will be has moved to... [[ ... ]] More About: Bandwidth , Posi , Tory
My Aztech DSL600EU just died
2007-06-28 15:50:00 A shocking thing happened yesterday morning , suddenly I couldnt connect to any sites and the router's lights remain static. Rebooting it and pushing the reset button doesnt help. After tens of times trying to get it back running, nothing seems to... [[ ... ]] More About: Died , Aztec
Update on Compiz Fusion repository
2007-06-26 09:05:00 I have updated the repository just now. A few noticable changes are: package updated to 20070625 morning's git (I'm @ GMT +8 if that matters) compiz package is slow splitted into compiz-gnome and compiz-kde release numbering is changed to follow... [[ ... ]] More About: Linux , Open Source , Fusion , Fedora , Update
Compiz Fusion repository for Fedora 7
2007-06-26 08:43:00 IMPORTANT NOTE TO 20070622git PACKAGES USER I have updated my packages to use a different release numbering. You will need to remove them manually before upgrading through yum, or it wont work. This is because the change in the release numbering... [[ ... ]] More About: Linux , Open Source , Fusion , Fedora , Compiz
Compiz Fusion is here
2007-06-24 10:20:00 The merge of compiz and beryl have already created an offspring Introducing Compiz Fusion http://youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w If you want to try it out, follow this guide to compile it on your... [[ ... ]] More About: Linux , Reviews , Open Source , Ubuntu
Using Glade to write GUI applications
2007-06-21 22:08:00 A few useful links for people who want to learn on how to write GTK applications using Glade Python - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5 838951374743244232 Java - http://people.redhat.com/overholt/nativee clipse/index.html Ruby -... [[ ... ]] More About: Programming , Applications
VMXGenerator.py : Python program to generate VMware configuration
2007-06-20 21:18:00 Ok, I'm bored during this holidays .. While surfing around and playing with Xen and VMWare, I stumbled upon this http://sanbarrow.com/vmxbuilder.html and saw a DOS Shell script to generate VMX. The crazy me took over, I started converting the... [[ ... ]] More About: Linux , Programming , Python , Misc , Configuration
Setting up ADSL connection, the Fedora way
2007-06-18 15:30:00 Some users might not notice that Fedora have a very easy to use GUI for setting up ADSL and other network connections. The tool is integrated together with Fedora/RH system-config utility called system-config-network. This howto will show you how to... [[ ... ]] More About: Linux , Connection , Adsl , Connect
Running X applications headless using Xvfb
2007-06-16 21:44:00 Sometimes, you might want to run certain X applications as a daemon in the background. For example, in my case, I want to make Ktorrent run in the background on startup while I control the torrents using its WebUI. However, to run Ktorrent , I must... [[ ... ]] More About: Linux , Hacks , Running , Applications , Fedora
Fedora repository mirroring script using reposync
2007-06-09 18:50:00 I'm back~ :D As my first post of this holidays .. I give y'all the script i've been using to mirror and sync the fedora repos. The script is using reposync,repomanage (both provided by yum-utils) and createrepo , so you will need to yum for those... [[ ... ]] More About: Script , Fedora , Sync , Sito , Dora
GPG Encrypt/Sign Texts in Firefox using FireGPG
2007-04-05 03:06:00 Carthik Sharma pointed out a new Firefox extension called FireGPG in his blog post. Just what I'm looking for! :D Site URL: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/ FireGPG is a Firefox extension which brings an interface to crypt, decrypt, sign or verify... [[ ... ]] More About: Sign , Crypt
Fedora Daily Package
2007-04-02 16:25:00 Chris Tyler just announced a blog for a daily review of Fedora packages from the default repositories. Some sort like Debian package of the day https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-li st/2007-April/msg00103.html Site URL:... [[ ... ]] More About: Daily , Dail , Pack , Dora
Mplayer, MP3, Audacity, Kmod-NVidia is in Extras!!! :P
2007-04-01 13:25:00 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-de vel-list/2007-April/msg00001.html Packages built and released for Fedora Extra s 6: 35 NEW audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3-1.2.5-2.fc6 NEW audacious-plugins-nonfree-wma-1.1.2-7.fc6 NEW ... [[ ... ]] More About: Xtra , Audacity , Layer
Synchronizing Sony Ericsson K320i Calendar with Evolution Calendar
2007-03-31 06:34:00 Sorry for the long absence, I'm quite busy with my studies and project works .. well its that time of the semester again .. *sigh As promised , here is a simple howto for synchronizing Sony Ericson K320i with Ximian Evolution Step 1: Getting the... [[ ... ]] More About: Sony Ericsson , Ericsson , Calendar
SonyEricsson k320i
2007-03-19 19:33:00 I just got myself a sony Ericsson k320i last sunday. My old phone was seriously out-of-shape and I think its time for me to change it. With a price tag of RM438, heres what I got - Bluetooth - Java support - IRda support - 15MB storage - USB... [[ ... ]] More About: Sonyericsson , Yeri
Mugshot : A Social Network For FOSS User
2007-03-10 07:28:00 Fedora users might have heard about it, but not other FOSS users. I think I'm going to help them with some promotion :D Heres the link to Mugshot Website. Mugshot makes it easy to show off what you're doing online and keep track of what your... [[ ... ]] More About: Social , Network , User , Social Network
Sun Tech Days : University World Tour
2007-03-09 14:37:00 My Object Oriented Programming class had a field trip to Sun Tech Day's University World Tour yesterday. It was quite fun for me (considering its free + got a lot of freebies + a free transport home for the mid-sem break). There was 5 topics on the... [[ ... ]] More About: Days
Just created a Fedora Account
2007-03-06 14:33:00 I just created an account in Fedora Project today ... Still thinking on what group to join for contributions ... Anybody want to give suggestion? [[ ... ]] More About: Count , Account , Dora , Create
What do I see in the Fedora LiveCD-Creator project
More articles from this author:2007-03-02 11:03:00 I have been playing around with livecd-creator for a while now. And these are some possibilities that I can see from the project + the custom distro project. Flexibility in creating customized liveCD (obvious)A lot of Live distros based on Fedora ... [[ ... ]] More About: Project , Creator , Dora , The Fed 1, 2, 3 |
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