Over the weekend, I got the SVK version control system included in Fedora Extras. It is in the perl-SVK package. I also packaged up a bunch of its required Perl modules.
I actually used svk for the spec files for the packages. It was very handy for synchronizing and merging changes between home [...]
If you already have Linux installed, it is possible to boot the Fedora installer to do installs or upgrades without a boot CD.
In the images/pxeboot directory of the distribution repository, there is vmlinuz kernel and initrd.img ramdisk image. Download those and put them in /boot. Then edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add the following entry:
title [...]
I already have a mirror of Fedora Core current release and updates to make updates and installing packages faster. I have been doing more development recently which means installing Extras and Rawhide package. I wanted to have a mirror of those but didn’t want to have a complete mirror and do the large [...]
One complaint I hear about Fedora on x86_64 is that Flash and Java plugins can’t be used with the 64-bit Firefox because they only are available as 32-bit. I don’t normally need those plugins at home but I can see how people would want them.
I discovered that the easiest way to install 32-bit Firefox [...]
About 28 minutes ago, the first leap second in seven years was inserted. The clock went from 23:59:59 UTC to 23:59:60. Here in Oregon, this happened at 15:59:60. This was done to keep UTC in sync with the sun. The difference between atomic time (TAI) and UTC is now 33 [...]
I am going home to San Diego tomorrow. One of the things I do every Christmas is upgrade my Dad’s computer to the newest version of Fedora. However, FC4 has been out for six months so there is a whole pile of updates. Instead of downloading all the updates after the upgrade, [...]
It turned out to be really easy to do Bluetooth HotSync from my Treo 650 to my Fedora Core Linux box.
On the Linux box:
service bluetooth start service dund start
Create the /etc/ppp/peers/dun file:
115200 192.168.2.15:192.168.2.16 local ms-dns [...]
I went to a day of sessions last Wednesday at OSCON. Here are the session I went to:
Shtoom
First, I went to talk by Anthony Baxter about shtoom, a SIP stack written in Python. As he explained multiple times, VOIP and SIP are complicated. Which makes writing a complete stack by himself even [...]