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07 January 2011 ~ Comments Off

Fedora Annoyancies Resolved (Hopefully)

A couple of weeks ago I ranted about being able to crash about any available music player on Fedora, and the gazillion bugs I filed for that ..
At last the the problem is solved, as mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657971#c17…

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11 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Musical Fedora Annoyancies.

Karl has been jokingly calling Fedora the Distribution if you don’t want sound.
And I`m starting to believe him ..
Over the past 3 days that I’m using Fedora 14 I’ve had random crashes
Given that all my podcast feeds are configured in my favourite rhyt…

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03 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Bug Zapper

Dear Fedoracommunity,
Over the course of the day I recieved 22^H3 mails from your friendly Bug Zapper.
Most of those bugs where bugs I had reported upon crashes using bug-buddy. Bugs on different desktop tools such as .. synergy, evolution, gwibber , g…

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01 September 2010 ~ Comments Off

Fedora 13 as a domu guest with xen 3.4.2 on CentOS 5.5

I wanted to install a Fedora 13 machine as a paravirtual domu guest on our CentOS 5.5, xen 3.4.2 host. I also wanted to provision it using koan/cobbler. I ran into a few problems along the way, but I got there in the end! Firstly, createrepo in CentOS 5.5 does not work with either the [...]

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19 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

yum install mariadb

I`m not the biggest fan of openSUSE but this weeks post by Colin Charles makes me happy ..
openSUSE users can now do a mariadb install from their default repositories.
With all the fuzz about Snoracle and MySQL’s future last year to me it became clear …

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01 March 2010 ~ Comments Off

RPM packages for Toggl Desktop client

I use the toggl time-tracking service to keep track of the hours I work for my various clients. toggl make available desktop clients for Windows, Mac, & Linux, but the Linux packages are in .deb format for Ubuntu and, until recently, they did not provide x86_64 packages. toggl recently released the desktop client as open [...]

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