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Selinux and confined users 29 Apr 2013 | 01:53 am
I admit to a paranoid streak and have been confining my users with selinux. I confine almost all users as user_u /usr/sbin/semanage login -a -s user_u $user Users who need admin access I confine as st...
Sound on Intel 811b 28 Apr 2013 | 09:33 pm
With recent kernels the sound on my netbook skips. Sound card: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller [8086:811b] (rev 07) After many attempts and much google search...
command line spell checking 27 Jun 2012 | 02:41 am
I often edit files with command line tools such as vim and personally find spell checking invaluable. Two high yield tips I have found: VIM spell checking vim has built-in spell checking functional...
Fun with KDE 14 Jun 2012 | 02:15 pm
Children are so much fun. With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora we took a look at Desktop Environments. This time KDE won out hands down, although XFCE was a close second After they spent most ...
Kwrite spell check 12 Jun 2012 | 03:58 pm
As of Fedora 17 I am using KDE and so am somewhat new to some of the default applications. The default text editor seems to be kwrite and although there is an option for spell checking , there was no ...
How to install ddate 10 Jun 2012 | 01:23 pm
ddate is a ‘fun’ program to display the date in Discordian calendar. ddate prints the date in Discordian date format. Example: Unfortunately, ddate was disabled / removed from util-linux. Discussi...
Proxmox using iptables in openvz guests 7 Jun 2012 | 03:42 am
I recently upgraded Proxmox and noticed iptables was not working in the guests. Turns out a small edit is required to /etc/vz/vz.conf (we need to add some more modules to be used in the openvz guests...
Fedora 17 GMA500 (Poulsbo) 5 Jun 2012 | 12:28 pm
Good news for those of us with the GMA500 (Poulsbo) graphics card ! Fedora 17 ships with the 3.3.4 kernel and my GMA500 works out of the box without the need for any customizations to the boot option...
Desktop Environments RAM use 1 Jun 2012 | 08:08 pm
As a result of a recent discussion on IRC, I decided to take a number of DE (Desktop Environments) for a test drive and see how much ram they used. Test machine – Netbook with 2 Gb RAM Method – This...
Linux-libre 5 May 2012 | 06:33 pm
Confessions of a “practical” FSF fanboi Without getting into all the politics, we all use GNU/Linux and many of us appreciate the four freedoms advocated by the Free Software Foundation. The freedom...
