Tag Archives: Fedora

Early adventures with Ubuntu

By Callum | Published: Friday 16 May 2008 17:50

I’ve been thinking about switching from Fedora to Ubuntu. I downloaded the latest Ubuntu version a few weeks ago. Today I took the plunge and booted it up.
First thing I noticed, no wireless networks. It detected my card and it seemed to work, but no networks were listed by NetworkManager. I unplugged the power and [...]

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Evolution Attachments

By Callum | Published: Tuesday 27 Nov 2007 13:57

The latest version of Evolution (the email / calendar / contact application for Linux) has introduced an absolutely awesome feature. I just clicked “Send” on a message that I had forgotten to attach a file to. It popped up a little window saying I had used the word attachment in the message but there was [...]

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Bitstream is Lucida for Linux

By Callum | Published: Friday 23 Nov 2007 12:28

I’m posting this more to have it on record than anything else. I was just hunting down the Lucida Grande font for linux, but the Bitstream fonts look awesome, it’s the part I was missing.
On that note, I’ve installed Fedora 8, yes, screenshots to follow shortly…

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Linux Audio Volume at Boot

By Callum | Published: Tuesday 04 Sep 2007 11:49

Every time I restarted Fedora the volume would reset to 50% and the mic would be de-selected as the recording source, so VoIP wouldn’t work. I’d have to manually reset these every time I rebooted. Turns out, as with everything Linux, there’s a simple solution!
You set your desired volume, login as root, then [...]

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Circular Scrolling

By Callum | Published: Friday 24 Aug 2007 13:35

While playing with my xorg.conf file I accidentally turned off the scrolling area of my trackpad. Normally, if you put your finger at the right hand side of the trackpad, you can scroll up and down. If you put your finger at the bottom of the pad, you can scroll left or right.
In figuring out [...]

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Fedora 7 and Skype 1.4

By Callum | Published: Sunday 10 Jun 2007 13:22

I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 7 yesterday. As usual, upgrading my OS involves a bunch of new programs, copying some data, restoring my settings, etc, etc. This has been the easiest update yet though, I’m getting the hang of it. Fedora release a new version every 6 months, so I get regular practice!
The most [...]

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Default Language in OpenOffice on Fedora

By Callum | Published: Friday 25 May 2007 13:01

It took me a while to figure this out, but I couldn’t change the default language for documents in OpenOffice. There are various options, but none of them would stick. I did a little searching on the wonderful FedoraForum.org and I found this thread.
Although the thread mentions FC4, the long and the short of it [...]

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