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Workarounds for common F18 bugs

I've been using the Fedora 18 pre-release for a couple of months now, and am generally happy with how it...

Mystery Shopper Needed

Most of the spam I receive gets caught by spam filters, and pushed into the separate spam folder.  I check...

__git_ps1 not found after upgrade to Fedora 18

If you have enabled git information in the shell prompt (like branch name, working tree status, etc.) [1], an upgrade...

Avi Kivity Stepping Down from the KVM Project

[caption id="attachment_499" align="aligncenter" width="132"] Avi Kivity giving his keynote speech[/caption] Avi Kivity announced he is stepping down as (co-)maintainer of...

Setting Up Your Free Private Feed Reader

I've tried several RSS feed readers, offline as well as online: aKregator, Liferea, rss2email being the ones tried for a...

Virtualization at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2012

The 2012 edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference concluded recently.  I was there, running the virtualization microconference.  The format of...

Changing GNOME Default Action for Low Battery

The GNOME default of 'hibernate' or suspend-to-disk on very low battery power isn't optimal for many laptops -- hibernate is...

Workaround for error after upgrading VM from F16 to F17

Updating a Fedora 16 guest to a Fedora 17 guest via preupgrade gave me the 'Oh no, something has gone...

Using adb To Copy Files To / From Your Android Device

Some devices, like the Galaxy Nexus and the HP Touchpad* (via the custom Android ROMs) don't expose themselves as USB...

Blog moved to wordpress on openshift

I moved this blog a while back from Blogger to Wordpress. I was looking to move away from Blogger/Blogspot, to...