If empathy stops working for you after the first update of F15 beta
Please run the following command :
su -c 'yum downgrade selinux-policy*'
Reference: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1464741&postcount=7
Automating creation of free-media envelopes
I've accepted a lot of requests this month. It's because Rahul sent me 100 fedora 14 DVDs which I could use! (Thanks Rahul!!)
I'm lazy, and I really didn't want to write out the addresses by hand, so I ran around looking for ways to automate it. I've come up …
Task updates
I've been trying to change my workflows/schedules etc. to fit in more and more work in the 24 hours of the day. I must say, there has been some improvement. I've also come across posts such as this one which are on the same theme. Having said this, here's …
Tata Photon+ users : Something you should know
Yes, your talk time is carried forward when you recharge to increase your validity. But, it only happens if you recharge *before* your validity expires. This is unlike cell phone connection providers, who let you have your talk time if you recharge within a certain period (generally 3 months) after …
My first batch of free-media for the month
I've run out of media already! Until I can get more, these are the lucky few who will get Fedora this month. The envelope is the free-media mailer that twohot so graciously made for the free-media programme.
Playing your music from the terminal : mpd setup
I love using the terminal. In my last post, I detailed using rtorrent + RSS feeds + queue management. I've already posted a how-to for irssi sometime back. Today I'm going to blog on setting up mpd and ncmpc, a mpd client.
First, install the packages:
$ su -c 'yum -y install mpd …
A complete rtorrent setup
Using torrent RSS feeds with rtorrent
I was going through the rtorrent wiki looking for what else I could do with rtorrent. I love the client, and I really hate it when someone says "$MyClient can do this, haven't seen rtorrent do it." One such feature was using rtorrent with RSS feeds that you get from …
Folding in vim
Some vim links, so they're easy to find the next time I need them:
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/114138
Tata Photon+ on Fedora 14
All right!! I read a lot of posts etc. which wanted me to use wvdial and the rest. Fedora didn't need it. Plug in, network manager pops up saying "active"? Activate and get to work!! AWESOME!!