Nowadays there are a lot of possibilities of storing documents online – which is quite handy if you need to have stuff available on different devices or share it with others. I think one of the first who managed to make this quite easy and even supported all major OS’s was Dropbox. So I take …
EncFS & Dropbox for Linux/Android/Windows/MacOSX Read More »
Once you have Fedora running for while you’ll gather a bunch of kernel updates on your harddrive – and it’s likely you’ll need none of the old ones anymore. So from time to time I tend to clean up and remove old kernel packages keeping only the two latest updates. This procedure involves checking for …
Fedora 16 has been released for quite a while but I just now decided to make use of my old Acer Aspire 5572 notebook again and install the latest Fedora release. As always, Fedora is more or less equipped with “bleeding edge” software releases – which I appreciate a lot. (By the time of writing: …
Recently Google released a command line tool to manage it’s many different services: googlecl. This might be handy for those who want to script some operations. It’s quite simple to use, i.e.: # google picasa post title <PHOTOALBUM> /path/to/photo.jpg would upload “photo.jpg” to the Picasa album <PHOTOALBUM>. Run # google –help for more options or …
Running Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop I fell in love with it’s Dust theme – not officially part of Ubuntu 8.10, but you can get it here. So I wanted to install it on my desktop machine running Fedora 10. First problem is that Dust GTK2 theme requires a recent Murrine engine and Fedora provides …
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Of course I wanted my Wintec WBT-201 gps logging device to work with Fedora as it did with Debian/Ubuntu (see this post). And after playing around a little with the stuff, it did! So, this is what I wanted: gpsbabel (accessing and converting gps data) gtk-g-rays2 (managing the WBT-201) gpscorrelate (automatically adding gps data to …
I still like Debian and Debian based distros like sidux or Ubuntu most, but – as always, if something works too well – I wanted something new… As I recently joined a training course at Red Hat and a new release of Fedora just hit the servers, I went for Fedora 10. I think the …
