vpnc and me
After a brief hiatus of making posts (I document my daily trials all day at work, so it’s not usually the first thing I want […]
Month: September 2009
Wireless Network Manager Woes
Debian Lenny ships with the Network Manager package, version 0.6.6-4, which for all intents and purposes is a well written and very useful network management […]
New monitor woes
So I’ve gone out and purchased myself a gorgeous LG Flatron W2243T. Unfortunately, getting it to work correctly has proven difficult so far. It’s connected […]
Armacycles Advanced
This afternoon Phil, Jon, Sasha and myself engaged in a little Tron-esque gameplay thanks to the awesome 3D recreation known as Armacycle Advanced or sometimes […]
Eclipse Fails It
Man, Eclipse works great on Debian! It gives me this cool message on startup: JVM terminated. Exit code=127 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never -Dosgi.locking=none -jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar […]
OpenOffice.org needs snappier application names
Seriously, the names in OpenOffice.org are pretty bland – “Spreadsheet”, “Word Processor”, “Presentation”, etc. However, that’s pretty much the only fault I could find so […]
Challenger Approaching: Phil tries to install openSUSE
I’m the newest guinea pig in this experiment, and yes, I’m a few days late joining up. Since I’ve already become comfortable with Ubuntu, I […]
How to not install XBMC on Debian Lenny
So tonight I got a terrible idea. I figured that I’d try to install XBMC, the awesome media centre app for modded Xbox consoles. Turns […]
Day 12, my current software setup
It has been almost half a month since the experiment has begun and I think everyone is just getting to the point where they can […]
Just wanted to share a fail.
I’m back from a brief vacation, where $3 blackjack was the name of the game. Since I didn’t lose all my money I’m in pretty […]
SELinux and printing: Chock full of FAIL.
I might be a little frustrated at this point, but please – let me explain myself before you start with the ‘Haha, Linux noobie.’ comments. […]
Day Five, Still Alive
Just checking in to say so far so good! Actually I have quite a bit more to say than that. As you all know, I’ve […]
The trouble with patching your kernel to fix a problem…
If you remember a while back I was having a world of trouble trying to get my ATi drivers to play nicely with my desktop […]
Alien, OpenPGP & Wine
Now that the horrors of installation and setup are a part of the past I have been spending my time delving deep into the desktop […]
Upgrading to Flash 10 in Debian
Even though the Debian community is very strict about only allowing free software in their repositories, my Iceweasel install came preloaded with Macromedia Flash 9. […]
Fedora FAQ
I just wanted to quickly mention this awesome website, http://www.fedorafaq.org/. While it only covers up to Fedora 10 most of what it says is still completely accurate. It has helped me quick a bit get my system up and running, most recently allowing me to use Window’s fonts in Linux!
A Pretty New Desktop Theme
This morning I spent some more time messing around with Compiz. I followed this tutorial to add an alternative repository to my sources list that […]
Not entirely awful.
So after my initial three-hour fiasco of getting my mouse to work, Gentoo Linux is running in a stable manner on my system. My graphics […]
Finally Up and Running
As you may recall, last night, I ruined my system by manually editing the xorg.conf config file according to a sketchy tutorial on the Debian […]
How to add audio and video codecs to Fedora 11
By default this distro does not support non-free codecs. After a quick google search I found this quick and easy solution to add audio and video codecs to my Fedora install.