Author: John
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Watching Online Training on Fedora 15
I went to begin watching online Lynda.com training on my third monitor. You may remember I use Synergy to control the screen as I use an entirely separate computer to drive it. That computer was recently updated to Fedora 15. When I went to watch the video, using the Advanced QuickTime format which allows me…
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Summertime: Things To Do After Installing Fedora 15
It is finally summer and I recently updated my workstations and servers to Fedora 15. All that are not awaiting new hardware. I use both Gnome and LXDE and I scour the Internet for articles such as 20 Things to do after installing Fedora 15 for tips. These articles are great starters, but not to…
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Fedora 15 Tweaks
I used Instapaper to save a number of tweaks to Fedora 15 that I thought I might like after I settled in. I didn’t want to make a large group of changes to remain behind without giving myself a chance to truly get settled into appreciating a different workflow and point of view on the…
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Switching from Ubuntu to Fedora and Mint
I switched my desktops off Ubuntu to other Linux distributions. It isn’t a great sacrifice as I use multiple Linux distributions in any case; although, for a moment all of the Desktops in my house were Ubuntu and it did make it nice for the casual user. The problem was Unity and issues ranging from…
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Ubuntu 11.04: Natty Narwhal In The Shop
Machine A: oldest machine I am using, running Ubuntu 10.10 fine, Final 11.04 won’t run Unity (can’t do OpenGL) and when it goes back to classic mode the menus first don’t display quite correctly and then they disappear completely and flash on and off. Unusable. Installed Fedora Beta, Gnome 3 runs, machine stable, looks pretty,…