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Chrome WebGL In Action

Dec-22nd-2010

Chrome WebGL In Action

Howto: Install Nvidia driver for Fedora 15

Dec-2nd-2010

This is a tutorial to install the Nvidia driver on your Fedora 14 PC or Laptop

Installing Speed Dreams in Fedora

Sep-3rd-2010

Tweet Speed Dreams is a fork of the famous open racing car simulator Torcs, aiming to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, as well as constantly improving visual and physics realism. There are a bunch of RPM’s packaged for Mandriva, but I can [...]

Synaptics Tap to Click in Fedora 13

Aug-9th-2010

Tweet If you own a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, you may have an issue whereby tap-to-click is not enabled, in Fedora 13. Resolution: > su -c “gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf” In the first Section, add two additional lines immediately before EndSection, as such: Section “InputClass” Identifier “touchpad catchall” Driver “synaptics” MatchIsTouchpad “on” MatchDevicePath “/dev/input/event*” Option “TapButton1″ [...]

Screencast: Gnome 3 on Fedora 13

Jul-27th-2010

Gnome 3 Screencast on Fedora 13

Ubuntu One Music Store

May-2nd-2010

The Ubuntu One store. What a brilliant idea. Everyone loves music. And Linux users love open source software. People contribute in all sorts of ways – Writing open source software, submitting bug reports, or maintaining a blogging website like this one!

Microsoft Windows – Magazine FAIL

Apr-13th-2010

Tweet I can’t quite believe I’m seeing this… An officially endorsed Windows magazine, and on the front cover of April 2010 edition it proclaims: Revitalise your PC in One Hour !

Epic Gwenview plugins

Mar-11th-2010

Tweet I love the new array of KDE apps that were introduced with the birth of KDE4. My favourite is the awesome Dolphin File Browser. I also really liked Gwenview – it was quite reminiscent of a typical MacOSX look and feel. Anway… I’ve been checking out the Fedora 13 artwork, by the amazing Mairin Duffy, [...]

Fedora 12 Fix for Amazon’s mp3 Downloader

Feb-19th-2010

Unfortunately, the software packagers at Amazon have linked their Linux software against the libboost* libraries that were packaged for Fedora 11. Us Fedora users like the newest software available, so I’m sure, like me, you’re all using Fedora 12. If that is the case, then I’m sure non of you are using Amazon’s mp3 downloader – It doesn’t work with Fedora 12

KDE 4.4 is the Epitome of Why We Love Fedora…

Feb-12th-2010

The fact that this rebase to KDE 4.4 is being pushed to the Fedora-Updates repo is, for me, a symbolic representation of why we love using Fedora