http://fedora.short-stack.net frustrations, successes, & tears of joy from my fedora experience Thu, 17 May 2012 19:42:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=39 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=39#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:33:52 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=39 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=39 0 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=32 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=32#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:24:21 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=32
so, mostly, everything here is outdated, but because i’m a nostalgic freak, it will remain where it is. i don’t believe in deleting memories, even if those memories only serve to remind me that i wasted an entire spring break laying in bed on my laptop screwing with stupid broadcom wireless drivers.

one day… i will get back to tinkering. for now, i’ll be at work, tinkering with every OTHER flavor of linux known to man. sigh.]]> http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=32 0 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=23 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=23#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:46:48 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=23 cent OS and have been procrastinating getting that back up and running i have a lot of backing up/moving crap around to do. i am about to reformat my eee PC with linux mint (leaving for defcon today so i don’t want it to be obliterated by evil shenanigans). we’ll see how that goes.

SO… in the midst of my reformatting frenzy, i did want to share something that has made gnome even prettier and fun to use. gnome-do. i had never seen it until i started my new job. a coworker referred it to me and now i’m referring it to whoever reads this. i don’t think i’ll ever not use it unless something better comes along.

i won’t be good at explaining it so i recommend trying it out. i’ll be more specific about my fedora 11 install later on, however it might prove to be a moot point if my hard drive dies. i think it’s about to bite the dust.

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fedora 10. this blog will more than likely come back alive.

in the meantime, i’m finishing up my research on the effects of gender socialization on females in open source. the details can be found at osfemales.short-stack.net.]]> http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=22 0 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=21 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=21#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:34:23 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=21 this article is fantastic. to tweet from the command line, make sure you have wget installed and simply do the following: wget --keep-session-cookies --http-user=youremail --http-password=yourpassw \ --post-data="status=HOORAY!" \ http://twitter.com:80/statuses/update.xml OR! curl -u youremail:yourpassw -d status=HOORAY!" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml thank you, IBM, for distracting me even more tonight. i was not procrastinating nearly enough.]]> http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=21 0 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=20 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=20#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:22:28 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=20 wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R140746.EXE i hope this helps someone. after you download that, do the following: echo "blacklist bcm43xx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
yum install ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper make sure you have a wireless interface set up under your network settings and make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf has an “alias wlan0 ndiswrapper” line somewhere in it. you’ll probably have to reboot. you shouldn’t have to with modprobe but i had to.]]> http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=20 0 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=19 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=19#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:52:39 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=19 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=19 2 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=18 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=18#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:48:31 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=18
BUT… we had AppalachLAN XI yesterday (gaming club) and i had not played quake since before i went strictly linux. if you are not familiar with open source gaming, quake 3 arena runs on linux. WOO! i installed it and low and behold, it did not work.

turns out, if you have pulseaudio running, it does not like to work. i was screwing with it for HOURS and could not figure out what the error message was for. i would post it here, but i forgot to save it and thankfully have not replicated it. :-)

bottom line, if you try to install quake 3 arena (ioquake3.org) on fedora and you get a funky error message, that might be your problem. give it a shot. if all else fails, download open arena. it’s 100% open source and is based on the q3 engine.]]> http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=18 0 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=17 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=17#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:15:11 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=17 i can’t wait to try this when i get home!!! updates to come.]]> http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=17 0 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=16 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=16#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:06:00 +0000 short stack http://fedora.short-stack.net/?p=16 http://fedora.short-stack.net/?feed=rss2&p=16 2