Fedora is an awesome Linux distro. Chris just informed me of an awesome feature so I thought I’d blog for everyone else’s benefit and also my own 😉 When installing a kernel module through yum, instead of installing the kmod-<module> package install the akmod-<module> version e.g: sudo yum install kmod-nvidia…
I just upgraded to Fedora 13, all went smoothly.. or so I thought. When it finally became time login to my new system I got a error saying ksmserver wouldn’t start, and my session would then close and throw me back to the login screen. Turning to a console I…
A few of us here at work are using Fedora 12, two of the guys upgraded Fedora to find X not starting, seemingly a broken nvidia driver. Because they had issues I was careful about updates. But the inevitable happened.. I updated killing my Xorg. I decided I’d do a…
Iptables is a powerful firewall/packet filtering framework inside Linux, and obviously used for firewalls on desktop, servers, and even embedded Linux devices such as most home internet routers. I was asked to write a script that could monitor and report network usage on one of our machines at work. I…
At the point in writing there aren’t many ways of backing up your SMS’s from your iPhone, but you do a system backup when you sync with itunes but what if you want your SMS conversions backed up as a simple non proprietary format? Well the answer is here! Shea…
Fedora by default only supports free software, which is awsome.. but if you have some music in a non-free or non-OSS codec, you still want to play it.. if your using Amarok then just: sudo yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld NOTE: The above package isn’t available in the default Fedora repositories, it…
This is a simple post, I’ve been benchmarking some MySQL storage engines at work, and sometimes from the command line I want to make sure I know what storage engine I’m using. Its actually very easy, but for some reason I keep forgetting the command. This post is for memory…
I know, I know, most Fedora users probably are giving me the evil eye as they read this, but I find this tip useful when something on my desktop machine isn’t behaving properly and I want to see if it’s SELinux causing the behaviour, or if I want to stop…
We use Hibernate at work, and I’ve been working on getting all our JUnit tests to work on MySQL… Yes hibernate takes care of most of that, and it does, BUT some of our unit tests were failing when I pointed it at MySQL rather then PostgreSQL. After some debugging…
There is an Australian FTP RPMFusion mirror: baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ For updates: baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ NOTE: This purpose of this post is simply for future reference.