Fedora 12 For One Month: Day Six

I had to do a big presentation for school today. I exported my OpenOffice Impress file to a PDF(for safety) and presented it. I think I did well.

I came home today and received a box from Best Buy. In it was my new Microsoft 5000 Mouse(I know I know Microsoft...). Let me just say, this thing works great in Linux. All I did was plug in the wireless bluetooth device and it worked. No questions asked.



I will probably spend a majority of my time today studying Psychology and Calculus for my finals on Thursday and Friday. I can't wait to be finished with school for the year.

Fedora just alerted me that I had new updates. 57 to be exact. Even with the update, my bug is still around.

Fedora 12 For One Month: Day Five

I spent a lot of time on Fedora 12 today. Thankfully, a majority of the time was spent productively.

I used OpenOffice Writer and OpenOffice Impress a lot to work on my final project for my Computer Science final. I am familiar with both these programs, from using Ubuntu, so I didn't really have a hard time using them.

One thing that bothered me(it does in every Linux distribution) is the poor flash that Adobe has given us. For the love of god PLEASE give us something better than this trash software. Flash literally makes my internet experience crappy.

As of right now I am about to use gtk-recordmydesktop to record the output of top to show the class how scheduling works. I'll post that video on here when it is finished.

All-in-all it's been another good day with Fedora 12.


I ended up trying recordmydesktop, and it did not work well in Fedora. The frame rate was slow, even when I told it to increase.

I then tried byzanz. I thought the idea was really neat. It is a screen recording program that outputs a gif file. You can see what it can do here.

Fedora 12 For One Month: Day Four

Today I spent a while trying to see my shared folders on my Windows Vista desktop. After some time I ran into this guide. Which told me to install smb4k.

su -c 'yum install smb4k'

After that I did as the guide told me and enabled Samba Client in the firewall. After that, I could see my Windows Vista share.

Later today I started to mess with some games. I remembered Phun. I downloaded the source, resolved the two missing dependencies, and can now play with gravity!

Another thing that I noticed after installing openoffice is that my spell check is now working in Firefox. On top of that, I have almost every language/dialect to choose from. I chose en_CA. Where's Pirate?

I installed more gnome-games, since I wanted to play Mines with my girlfriend.


The rest of the day was spent studying for tests and working on a presentation for school.

Fedora 12 For One Month: Day Three

So day three is here. I haven't had too much time to mess with Fedora today. I did, however, start messing with Samba. I was surprised it wasn't installed by default, but I am installing it now.

Since I have Fedora running on my laptop I want to make a connection to my desktop, this way I can access files on my external hard drive.


I will work on this more later... Gotta go meet the girlfriend

Fedora 12 For One Month: Day Two

This blog is going to be short since I have to go to work soon.

I realized after the update, which updated the kernel, my wireless still drops, but not nearly as much as Ubuntu 9.10. They both use the same kernel version as far as I know, so Fedora does have an advantage here.

I added the RPM Fusion repos and did:

su -c 'yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly'

I can now play MP3s.


I am now installing openoffice.org.

su -c 'yum -y install openoffice*'

It's taking a while but yum is giving me thorough reports telling me that it is working.

My spellcheck is not working in Firefox right now, so please excuse any typos. I am going to look into this tonight.

I also noticed the Notification Area behaving strangly. I submitted a bug here.

Even with some of these bumps, Fedora 12 is working good and is very snappy. More later.

Fedora 12 For One Month: Day One

I am tired of distro-hopping and decided that I am going to try to stick to one distro, learn more about it, possibly participate in the project, and make myself more well rounded. I already know a lot about Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint, since they are essentially the same. Now I am going to move to what feels like a different camp, Fedora. I also chose Fedora because Ubuntu 9.10 keeps dropping my wireless connection. Hopefully I can stick with Fedora for longer than a month. At the end of the month, I am going to write a review of Fedora 12 after reviewing my month of blogs.

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

So day 1. I spent about 2 hours tonight trying to get it loaded onto a bootable USB drive since I didn't have any blank cd-r(typical for a distro-hopper). After struggling with the boot partitions, file system types, and usb-creator not working, UNetbootin finally "worked". After restarting and telling my BIOS what to boot, Fedora started but I received the error during startupL

[drm:drm_mode_rmfb] *ERROR* tried to remove a fb that we didn't own

Well damn Fedora. Man up and remove it. (Okay I actually have no clue what this error means besides the fact that the startup was not successful.)

After trying numerous attempts to get it started I finally gave up on the USB drive way. I then tried to burn to a DVD-R which, surprise, didn't work... DBus errors...

As I was about to try a new DVD-R I found a stack of CD-Rs. ALAS! SOMETHING I KNOW HOW TO WORK!

I just burned this .iso and I am going to boot and install it... now.

*~15 minutes and a shower later*

Okay, I am now running Fedora 12!


Neat. I changed my fonts to the Liberation fonts, size 8. I am now running an update:

yum -y update

As of now my Dynex Wireless Optical Mouse is not working, and it did in Ubuntu and in Debian Lenny. I am hoping after the update it will work or I will have to do some Fedora spanking.


Other than that it's all butter.

UPDATE: After the update my mouse works great! Shibby.

This is an AIR VENT not a TRASH can...

I found this at my university. Apparently there has been a problem...

TEST

this is just a test

this is more

Charlie The Unicorn 3 Wallpapers and Funny Picture

I made a few Wallpapers and a motivational poster for my lady. I think I should share them here. Click the pictures to download.

The Solution To My g++ Problem

In my previous post I was complaing about how g++ compiled something that Microsoft Visual Studio didn't.

As suggested on UbuntuForums, I should be using the -pedantic argument when compiling. Geany does not do this by default, so I had to add it under Build > Set Includes and Arguments. I put it with my Build command, since it compiles and links, thus saving me a step when preprocessing, compiling, and linking.

Now my build command appears like so:

g++ -Wall -pedantic -o "%e" "%f"

Hooray errors!