November 9th, 2008 by vitaliy
Fedora 10 Cambridge is set to be released on November 25th with ton’s of new improvements and features. If you are just as impatient and would like to upgrade to the preview release, without downloading the ISO files, simply update the release files and go through your standard update procedure.
[root@infamous ~]# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Preview/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-9.93-1.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Preview/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-9.92-4.noarch.rpm
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November 6th, 2008 by vitaliy
Ivan Pepelnjak of IOS Hints posted an excellent article on installing and running Quagga on Fedora Core over at CT3 wiki. Installing and maintaining Quagga on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS is even easier since the package manager automatically generates users, init scripts, and provides an easy upgrade path for the future.
To install Quagga [...]
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November 4th, 2008 by vitaliy
While configuring a new Gentoo Linux workstation I came across -march=native CFLAGS. Glancing over at GCC documentation, as of version 4.3.2 GCC is capable of automatically detecting what CPU you are using and setting appropriate optimization options.
32bit Users
CHOST=”i686-pc-linux-gnu”
CFLAGS=”-march=native -O2 -pipe”
CXXFLAGS=”${CFLAGS}”
64bit Users
CHOST=”x86_64-pc-linux-gnu”
CFLAGS=”-march=native -O2 -pipe”
CXXFLAGS=”${CFLAGS}”
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October 18th, 2008 by vitaliy
A visual how to guide to creating basic RAID1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. We will be creating 1 gigabyte swap partition and using the remaining space for /.
Boot up Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS installation media. Once you have reached the disk utility select Remove all partitions on selected drives and [...]
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October 7th, 2008 by vitaliy
While browsing around Knol I came across Computer Theology.
Computer Theology is the branch of Computer Science and Theology concerned with the study of the role of religion in computer networks.
I just checked the calendar, it is not April 1st.
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October 1st, 2008 by vitaliy
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software.
Glad to see Apple do the right thing.
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September 30th, 2008 by vitaliy
Working on site with a client reminded me of how poor font rendering is on Linux, and what little progress has been made since I stopped using Linux on the desktop almost two years ago. While trying to work on a document with a couple of Linux users I have noticed how poor hinting and [...]
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September 20th, 2008 by brad
This was featured on major news sites some time back and linked to YouTube - unfortunately the YouTube version has mono sound. I had a hard time finding a combination of relatively high quality video and stereo sound for this. Best I could get was the video from YouTube and the stereo track from DailyMotion [...]
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September 15th, 2008 by vitaliy
It has been a while since a sensationalistic piece on Apple and security has made the news rounds. The latest “security flaw” is that the iPhone takes a temporary screenshot of every window to generate shrinking effect of a window when the home button is pressed. A “forensics expert” has managed to recover said screenshots [...]
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