Installing Speed Dreams in Fedora

Sep-3rd-2010

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 confirm [...]

Synaptics Tap to Click in Fedora 13

Aug-9th-2010

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″ “1″ [...]

Download Osmos – An Indie Linux Game

May-17th-2010

Go download the latest Indie game released for Linux.

Microsoft Windows – Magazine FAIL

Apr-13th-2010

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 !

My Life in Cartoon Motion

Mar-19th-2010

Next time you’re in an English pub that sells Spitfire Ale, you just have to buy a pint!

Epic Gwenview plugins

Mar-11th-2010

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, and [...]

Illustrating the HTML5 video tag with Stephen Fry

Mar-1st-2010

Despite the apparent irony of having an Apple Mac sat in front of him, here is Stephen Fry discussing the rise and rise of GNU and Linux

HTML5 video For YouTube in Chrome in Fedora

Jan-21st-2010

Enabling html5 video codecs in Chrome on Fedora, for a Non-Flash experience of YouTube.

SOLVED HP Deskjet Scanner with xsane in Fedora

Nov-27th-2009

To use a HP multi-function printer as a scanner in Fedora for use with sane, keep reading…

Google Desktop on Fedora 11 + 64 bit

Aug-6th-2009

So here’s how I managed to get Google Desktop working on my Fedora 64bit PC….