Installing the nVidia drivers on Fedora 18 – version.h does not exist [Fixed]
For a gaming system, I always want the latest driver. So, I often go nVidia’s site, download the latest (sometimes
21
Feb
Blizzard bans Linux players using Wine for Diablo 3 – requested cancellation
Update (7/21/12): A little while ago Blizzard responded to my ticket and let me know that I wouldn’t be banned for
03
Jul
Copy a file with progress in Linux
You’ll need the “pv” program, which will monitor status through a pipe. On my Fedora box at work this was
29
Feb
Fancy colors break grep
When I first saw the new fancy colors for the grep command in Linux in Fedora 15 I was happy to see they added colorizing for
06
Jan
Fedora 16 upgrade – ouch
I’m always pretty excited about a new Fedora release. Yesterday, Fedora 16 was released, and of course I decided to go
09
Nov
I’m done with cars, they are just too complicated. (satire of ZDNet’s “Done with Linux, going back to Windows”)
Thanks to Michael Hall, who wrote a very funny article titled “If Linux was a car (Hater’s edition)” as a
28
Oct
TIL – Linux – getting around “operation not permitted”
Today we had a strange corrupted file end up on one of our backup servers, and was not allowing any kind of chown or rm
19
Oct
Uh oh – Pidgin stores passwords in plain text in accounts.xml
Funny thing we found out at work today: Pidgin, which is a multi-protocol chat client I’ve been using for years and
26
Jul
Michigan Linux Job – Monroe, MI
Figured I’d post this here in case anyone is looking for a Linux job. I’m happy at my current position, and
27
Jun
TIL – IPTables “tar pit” option
Update: A little slow on the ball here, but I found out today that Fedora requires the xtables-addon package to be installed
03
Jun
