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A new computer from Eric Mesa Computing
I got to engage in one of my favorite activities this week – building computers! My father-in-law’s Windows Vista laptop was going so slow, he often thought it was about to kernel panic. So I saw the computer he wanted at dell and spec’d it and found out I could do it for $400 cheaper…
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My latest shots
From my in-law’s 25th Anniversary:
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some more Fedora 7 [light] reportage
They finally got Epiphany-extensions up to the right level! So now the only thing I need to have everything working perfectly again is to finish up editing xorg.conf so that I can get compiz running again. I also submitted my hardware profile to the team via Smolt. Hopefully that means more support for my hardware.…
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Yay, Dual Screen is back!!
It turned out to be pretty easy. I used the nVidia tool to generate my xorg.conf and then just had to do a couple of tweaks. First off, since it was running as a non-privileged user, it wasn’t able to save to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. So I had to save it to my desktop. Then I had…
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Some more Fedora 7 impressions
Man have I been busy. I’m finishing up the wedding I shot a couple of weeks ago, so I haven’t had time for much. I think I have nVidia up and working now, although still just one monitor is working. glxgears gives me 1340 FPS – is that good or bad? I’ll have to look…
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Fedora 7 GUI up, but not nVidia….yet (and other first impressions)
Updating via Livna nVidia did not completely fix the problem. As in the last time I upgrade I am now down to one monitor and I hate it! I feel so cramped! I’m still updating some stuff so hopefully this’ll be fixed soon. While I’m at it….I don’t like the default Gnome icons for Fedora…
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Fedora 7 Installed – GUI borked
But that’s my own fault. I thought about switching away from nVidia before updating, but I didn’t. So I’m updating – there’s 1 GB worth of updates. So when I get home today I need to install the nVidia drivers from Livna. The upgrade went off without a hitch except for one thing: in grub,…
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Awesome Mashup
Here’s a great mashup Remyyy created with vintage footage and a recent song. It matches up fairly nicely! You don’t know me from Remyyy on Vimeo
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Fedora 7 install process
It’s almost done installing. I’ve stayed up too long to go to sleep now. Although, I doubt I’ll stay up past one. I might have to finish it off tomorrow. Anyway…it looks like they’ve eliminated the time left to install. That’s probably a good thing as for the past 3+ years it’s always been horribly…
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Fedora 7 install
I usually wait a while to install new Fedora releases, but a few things made me decide to give a whirl today. First of all, my torrent finished at a reasonable time. Second, Freshrpms is actually already ready for the upgrade. Finally, I read online that it’s a pretty stable release that doesn’t rock the…
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Rhythmbox Revisited
A while back (6 mo to a year ago), I tried Rhythmbox and found it too buggy for me. I absolutely hated it. I loved Amarok so I used that within KDE, but it took forever to load within Gnome. So what was I to do? Ever since Fedora started packaging Mono, I’ve been using…
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Pidgin Arrives in Fedora
I thought I’d have to wait for Fedora 7 to experience Pidgin (what gaim got renamed to due to their legal battles with AOL – as I previously blogged), but they provided it for Fedora Core 6. The interface has changed a little. Here are some screenshots showing my first impressions on the differences: The…
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Fedora 7 is here!
And it’s called Moonshine. I like the name better than Zod, Fedora Core 6’s name. Here’s the announcement from the Red Hat Mailing List: * From: The Fedora Project * To: fedora-announce-list redhat com * Subject: Announcing Fedora 7 (Moonshine) * Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 03:28:41 -0700 Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora…
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Mario Party 8…
…is a lot of fun. I love pulverizing (and being pulverized) in the mini games.
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A hilarious Penny Arcade
Can be found here. However, there is profanity involved, so don’t go there if that offends you. Otherwise hilarious. That’s all I have to say today, spent my time out of work watching disc 4 of “The Office” and pre-ordering Mario Party 8.