Posts Tagged ‘ blog ’
I just built my first RPM for fedora! w000t! In this post I will document the steps I took to make it build. I’ll start from the very beginning. Tools used: # yum groupinstall “Development Tools” # yum install rpmdevtools as stated here. Then I installed rpmlint because I wanted to check on my .spec file to make sure it was [ READ MORE ]
The Android livecd v.02 is out. I grabbed a copy from http://code.google.com/p/live-android/ and booted it up inside virtualbox to have a look. Seems pretty sweet to me! Now I want a Android phone… Settings to use for creating the virtualmachine should be Linux and Linux2.6, I gave it 256MB of memory and enabled 3d acceleration, [ READ MORE ]
I had some problem getting Spotify to run on my 64bit Fedora 11 laptop, fonts were missing and some graphics rendered horribly or was totally missing: Lucky for me I remembered that I have a free Crossover download waiting for me! So I got that, and it threw a bunch of missing dependencys in my face [ READ MORE ]
Relaunching my blog. W0ot! hurray! party party! meh. o_0 and all that, u know. Needed more options on wordpress, and wordpress.com is a bit too limited for my tastes.. I also enabled digg and reddit and some other buttons stuff to this new theme and all old posts have been copied to this one, I also got [ READ MORE ]
How to get VirtualBox 3.0 installed with USB support on Fedora 11. We need to install a little something to get the module to actually build before we install Virtualbox. As root: # yum install dkms kernel-devel make automake autoconf gcc Then install VirtualBox: 32bit: # rpm -Uhv http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0/VirtualBox-3.0.0_49315_fedora11-1.i586.rpm 64bit # rpm -Uhv http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0/VirtualBox-3.0.0_49315_fedora11-1.x86_64.rpm Right, now for the usb part. Got to find out [ READ MORE ]
You can find my blog here: http://blog.rubbad.com Renewed my webhosting, and I moved my blog back to it’s original home. No I did not move my blog, or did I? Probably not. [ READ MORE ]
I moved my blog today. It sits now on wordpress.com after many failed attempts to move it to my own server, some weird dns issues probably… I’m not fit to play with it now. In a few weeks my hosting plan will be discontinued and I am either going to change webhosting or do it [ READ MORE ]
My verdict of PCBSD, for the few hours I used it. A very nice system, I like the ports system a lot. It is rubbish compared to gentoos emerge however. Right now I’m back in Fedora 10 Preview, giving it a another chance. Other thoughts; I should change the blog name to “distrohopper” or something … [ READ MORE ]
Just upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.7 beta1, just for the ease of upgrading and plugin installation. I guess I’ll find out about how stable it is down the line… what is your favorite feauture? [ READ MORE ]
Stumbled upon this interesting blog here: http://alinuxblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/how-to-use-the-window-keys-in-linux-gnome/ [ READ MORE ]