Fixed: Fedora 16 Printing
During my upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 several things broke, this is nothing new there were alot of major graphical components updated. Those issues were resolved in the week following the F16 release....
View ArticleFedora 17 – Sluggish Firefox
The upgrade to Fedora 17 on my main system had gone well with no significant issues aside from one. When trying to start Firefox with multiple tabs loading it would hang locking the browser up. After...
View ArticleGoing Gecko
Using Linux has always presented me with a lot of choice as to how I want to use it and how it can work for me. I started my Linux journey with Gentoo and stayed with it for many years. But over time I...
View ArticleKeeping My Hat On
In my previous post I outlined my thinking about moving from Fedora to OpenSuse. I installed OpenSuse 12.3 onto mylaptop and had a play about. The installer was clean and easy to use and everything was...
View ArticleSystem Email
On my Fedora system I collect the system emails to my user account. This results in a selection of daily emails outlining statuses which I am prompted to deal with whenever I launch a terminal. In the...
View ArticleFedora 19 – Initial Impressions
I have just upgraded both my laptop and desktop machines to Fedora 19. Having had a few issues with the past couple of releases this upgrade has been almost flawless. The only issue I have noticed so...
View ArticleKivy
This week whilst thinking about how to represent an idea as a GUI application I ran into the limits of GTK3. I had a look around at matplotlib and pygame as possible work arounds but neither suited...
View ArticleChromebook to Ultrabook
Over the weekend I spent some time removing ChromeOS from an Acer C720 and replacing it with Fedora 20. Although I still need to add a few more tweaks to the setup I have ended up with absolute...
View ArticleBash Exploit
Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169) https://access.redhat.com/node/1200223 Well I read this article whilst I was at work. Upon...
View ArticleSSD Research
I had a spot of luck this week when I purchased an early Black Friday deal on Thursday evening. I wasn't intending to buy anything but I knew when the deals were starting and decided to have a look. I...
View ArticleThe Big SSD Research Post
Introduction This article was written at the end of 2014. Most of the content will remain relevant in the future but there may be aspects which become outdated as hardware and usage practices evolve. I...
View ArticleFedora 24
This week I have been updating my machines to run Fedora 24. Two out of 3 updated without any issues and continue to run normally. One machine however has decided to cause me some issues. My old...
View ArticleFedora 25
This evening I arrived home from work and began to update my machines to the latest version of Fedora. I am pleased to say the update has gone smoothly. This has been the easiest update I think I have...
View ArticleFedora 19 – Initial Impressions
I have just upgraded both my laptop and desktop machines to Fedora 19. Having had a few issues with the past couple of releases this upgrade has been almost flawless. The only issue I have noticed so...
View ArticleKivy
This week whilst thinking about how to represent an idea as a GUI application I ran into the limits of GTK3. I had a look around at matplotlib and pygame as possible work arounds but neither suited...
View ArticleChromebook to Ultrabook
Over the weekend I spent some time removing ChromeOS from an Acer C720 and replacing it with Fedora 20. Although I still need to add a few more tweaks to the setup I have ended up with absolute...
View ArticleBash Exploit
Bash Code Injection Vulnerability via Specially Crafted Environment Variables (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169) https://access.redhat.com/node/1200223 Well I read this article whilst I was at work. Upon...
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