Building a custom kernel RPM with FUSE support on YDL 6
This guide explains how to build and install a custom kernel RPM with FUSE support on Yellow Dog Linux 6. The guide is written based on my experience with YDL on an Apple XServe G4 using...
View ArticleMounting an FTP filesystem under Yellow Dog Linux 6
This guide shows how to use FUSE and CurlFtpFs to mount an FTP filesystem on Yellow Dog Linux 6. This guide presumes that you have already built and installed your own FUSE capable kernel for YDL 6....
View ArticleTip: never flash a BIOS from within Windows!
This much I have learned: never, and I mean *never*, flash your computer’s BIOS from within Windows. I’ve done it before and never had a problem, but my luck ran out when I recently tried to flash the...
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Yorkshire Dales three peaks challenge!
Big thanks to everyone who contributed to my birthday present of a weekend away in the Yorkshire Dales to do the 3 peaks challenge. We had a lovely time and to spare me the pain of telling everyone...
View ArticleSome useful linux commands
A few useful linux commands and their explanations. Recursively find in files… find . -name \*.php -exec grep -inH discount {} \; This finds all files ending with .php (-name \*.php) starting in the...
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Banshee 1.0 RPM for Fedora 8 x86_64
Banshee 1.0 was released on June 5 2008. At the time of writing I haven’t been able to find an official Fedora 8 RPM build so I have built my own using the Fedora 9 source RPM and made it available...
View ArticleFedora 8 x86_64 fixes for battery being reported twice error
The latest 2.6.25.x Fedora 8 kernels have both ACPI_PROCFS_POWER and ACPI_SYSFS_POWER turned on and this can cause a strange problem with HAL which results in it incorrectly displaying the same battery...
View ArticleCustom build of synaptics for Fedora 8 x86_64 on MacBook
Based on the patches found in this post over at Ubuntu forums I have created an updated synaptics touchpad driver RPM package for Fedora 8 x86_64. As the original author notes, this makes it more...
View ArticleInstalling the Broadcom 802.11 STA driver in Fedora 9
Update 15 November 2008: Just a note to mention that I’ve packaged this up into an RPM and so this driver is now available as an RPM in the rpmfusion repos for Fedora 8, 9 and 10. See this post for...
View ArticleRPM installation of Broadcom 802.11 STA wireless driver in Fedora 8/9/10
RPMs for the Broadcom 802.11 STA Wireless Driver are now available from the rpmfusion.org repos for Fedora 8, 9 and 10. This is an official-release of Broadcom’s IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux device...
View ArticleWordPress default theme 1024 wide
I love the WordPress default theme based on the famous Kubrick theme but it has two problems in my eyes: There are no sidebars on posts or pages making navigation kind of tricky. It is designed for 800...
View ArticleInstalling Fedora 10 on a MacBook
What works and what doesn’t? Basic installation instructions Post installation Fixing the wireless Fixing the touchpad Disable touchpad while typing iSight camera Bluetooth Apple SMC (Optional)...
View ArticleHow-To: Automated incremental daily backups to Amazon S3 using Duplicity
This guide shows how to use Amazon S3 with duplicity to make secure GPG encrypted automated daily incremental backups (snapshots) of a Linux server or desktop. I have been using this method on various...
View ArticleSimple time lapse video in Linux
Time lapse (or stop-motion) video is really cool, and this post explains how to make a simple time lapse style video in Linux using entirely free open source software. There is more than one way to...
View ArticleFedora 11 – first impressions
Just got Fedora 11 up and running on my MacBook and it’s pretty damn good, nothing ground breaking but it seems like another solid release from the Red Hat folks and builds nicely on the foundations of...
View ArticleInstalling Broadcom Wireless STA Driver in Fedora 11
These are updated instructions for installing the Broadcom Wireless STA driver in Fedora 11. This driver is for use with Broadcom’s BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4321-, and BCM4322-based hardware. 1) Enable...
View ArticleInstalling Fedora 11 on a MacBook
What works and what doesn’t? Basic installation instructions Post installation Fixing the wireless Fixing the touchpad iSight camera Bluetooth Fixing the brightness keys Video driver for newer...
View ArticleMass email migration from IMAP to Google Apps using imapsync
This post explains how I used imapsync on Linux to successfully migrate all our user’s emails and includes a few tricks specific to Gmail and bulk transfers of multiple accounts. Google Apps offers a...
View ArticleAdding a FAT32 partition to Raspbian on a Rasperry Pi
This post explains how to add a FAT32 partition to Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi. This is really useful if you want to be able to add files to your Pi SD card (e.g. media files) directly from a PC or Mac....
View ArticleLooping video playlist with Omxplayer on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi comes with an awesome little video player called Omxplayer that is very capable of playing back full 1080p video perfectly when encoded correctly in H.264/AAC. One problem is the...
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