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Compile VLC 1.1.2 on Fedora 13

Most Linux distributions don’t always provide latest versions for all packages within the official repository (e.g. the current VLC version in Fedora 13 is 1.0.6, the  one from the Rawhide repo — which includes packages for the next Fedora release — is 1.1.0, but the latest release as of today is 1.1.2). So, what do [...]

Battery may be broken

If you get the “Battery may be broken” message you’re most likely running Linux and Gnome. This a gnome-power-manager feature that displays the low capacity warning for broken batteries. This can be annoying so here’s how you can get rid of it: install gconf-editor (yum install gconf-editor on Fedora  / sudo apt-get install gconf-editor on [...]

Upgrade Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 using YUM

Fedora 13 is due in less than 2 weeks (as of today) but I decided not to wait any longer and upgrade my existing Fedora 12  x86_64 installation. The following describes what you need to do to upgrade to Fedora 13 using yum. First, you need to upgrade these 2 packages: fedora-release-12-2.noarch fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12.noarch Enabling the [...]

Amarok 2.X proxy settings

I’ve been looking for a workaround for quite a while since Amarok developers didn’t put this on top of their priority list. As of version 2.1.1 the player still doesn’t have a proxy setting option in the Settings menu and this can get really annoying when you deal with multiple machines and play music on [...]