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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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Fedora 10 was released yesterday, and I'm very impressed. This are much smoother this time around than in Fedora 9, and the Solar artwork is simply stunning. You can see some screenshots in this Phoronix review, and if you like it you can grab the LiveCD/LiveUSB, CD and DVD ISO images here. I've also updated all my blog howtos for Fedora 10, so if you need any help setting up your system with RPM Fusion be sure to check them out! |
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Saturday, 18 October 2008 |
As I talked about a few posts ago, I've been trying out Drupal and designing a new section of the Diffingo website with it that's devoted to its open-source software. I polished it a bit and it's now online at diffingo.com/oss. Now that I have a developer blog there, I'll be posting info relevent to fwbackups and my other software there... But the rest will still be here. |
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 |
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Well, as usual, it's been a while... I'll start by saying happy new year! Better late than never I guess ;)
Anyways, ever since I started developing fwbackups for Windows I've had to use it a lot more often than I used to. Here's a list of some (free) Windows apps I've found to be very useful:
- iTunes: As much trouble as I've had in the past with Apple products, I've yet to see a better media player that's as easy to use, configure and has equivalent features. The only thing I wish is that I could import with lame directly from iTunes.
- iTunes Lyrics Importer searches lyricswiki.org for song lyrics and automatically updates your iTunes library
- iTunes Library Updater (iTLU) makes it a breeze to manage your library when it comes to updating track info, adding new songs or removing the dead links in your library.
- Notepad++: One of the best text editors I've seen when it comes to programming or just general-purpose text. Of course, nothing beats good old GEdit though ;)
- MediaCoder is a free audio and video transcoder. It supports almost any format you can imagine, has a nice interface, huge amount of features, and even some presets for various devices like the PSP or iPod.
- WinSCP for all your secure file copying needs.
- PuTTY for all your SSH needs.
- 7-zip: Finally, open bz2 archives and a whole lot more without any annoying "trial" and "upgrade now" messages!
All these programs are free to download & use, and most are open source. Enjoy! |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
Fedora 8 (Werewolf) is here! I've been using it as my primary OS since Test 2 came out, and it's been rock stable ever since RC2 in my case (though I heard there may have been a few bug in NetworkManager concerning certain types of wireless networks; That will be fixed in a zero-day update). Be sure to check out Werewolf's downloads and the release notes, as well as the updated collection of Fedora 8 howtos! |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
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I've been on the lookout for an accellerated screen capture for a while but to no avail... If you know of an accellerated screen capture application (eg one I could use to capture Compiz effects smoothly @ 20fps) please let me know.
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Sunday, 13 May 2007 |
A slashdotter pointed out that ATI (now owned by AMD) is going to release open source drivers. Let's hope nVidia does the same! Edit: Turns out this is probably not true... I think people had misinterpreted what ATI had said |
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Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
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Today I broke 10K points for folding@home - Completed my 54th work with 10167 points. If you haven't joined already, please consider joining the FedoraFolders. Folding@home is a project that uses your idle CPU cycles to help research on various diseases - You won't even notice it's there in the background. |
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
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Size of all updates downloaded from Presto-enabled repositories: 1.7M
Size of updates that would have been downloaded if Presto wasn't enabled: 31M
This is a savings of 95 percent Updated: anaconda.i386 0:11.2.0.55-1 glibc.i686 0:2.5.90-21
Dependency Updated: anaconda-runtime.i386 0:11.2.0.55-1 glibc-common.i386 0:2.5.90-21 glibc-devel.i386 0:2.5.90-21 glibc-headers.i386 0:2.5.90-21
Complete!
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Tuesday, 17 April 2007 |
Due to legal issues, the Gaim instant messenger has now been renamed to Pidgin. I just downloaded Beta7 from extras-development, and I'm quite impressed. The new Tango icons make all the difference! |
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