Although is becoming quite viral I can’t resist the urge to share this. It’s a model about how a good job can be done, and yes, I do like GNU/Linux.
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Media center for Linux 0
I’ve acquired a little hardware box in order to be my next media center. For sure it’s going to be with Linux so I’ve look around to see what’s most mature software. Almost everybody talks about this software: Xmbc: and I’ve seen running on a older Xbox … it’s simply amazing how fast it is: [...]
What packages do I have installed in Fedora? 0
There’re easy things to do that I forget how to do it… For instance, I know that I may get a whole package list if I type: rpm -qa on my console screen. I know that I may get information about packages by typingrpm -qi package_name or by typing yum info package_name Since I’m experiencing [...]
Fedora 9 just installed 0
As I wrote here a couple of weeks ago I’ve installed Fedora 9 at my laptop. I’ve used for the very first time a different method. My laptop (buyed 04/11/2002) is unable to boot from a DVD, I allways have been using the set of CDs but now I downloaded a ISO that allows you [...]
From Fedora to Debian 0
I upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 without problems… ’till the day mplayer doesn’t run anymore. A very competent guy from Red Hat who’s working at our office told me to use livna repos … I told him about how upset I feel about livna repos vs. freshrpms repos, they both does not run [...]
Yet with up2date in Fedora, WTF! 0
At ending of October I was suffering this error when I try to make yum update and I answer yes in order to install all that yum purposes to me: Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: Package up2date needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available. Package rhnlib needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is [...]
Save bandwith with squid in five minutes 0
I received the Redhat Magazine in my inbox, recently I’ve read an article about how to start up a squid in five minutes. Since I know good it runs I must recommend you give squid a chance. If you have a company -little, middle or big company- it would save you quite bandwith. If you’re [...]
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Easy to help Fedora 7 0
No news about Fedora Project: there’s a new version, they switched from Fedora Core to Fedora (since there’s no separation between a core and other repositories) and also there’re more and more exciting news: Fedora Release notes in english Fedora Notas del lanzamiento en español but what I think its really useful for all of [...]
Learning wifi with Fedora Core 6 0
I’ve to confess I feel myself a little bit older for some stuff … but curiosity has been a strong force inside me. Since I bought my brand new wrt54g-l for SoHo use I’m testing a couple of wi-fi cards. A lot of people has wi-fi cards that they don’t use. Nowadays laptops has wi-fi [...]
Faillog in Fedora 0
First of all, this is just my own experience from an Red Hat magazine named How do I use the faillog program to track failed login attempts? Let’s go: Open the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file for editing. Add the following lines: auth required pam_tally.so no_magic_root account required pam_tally.so deny=2 no_magic_root Save the file and exit. Test the [...]