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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 [...]

last.fm ipod scrobbling

If you have an iPod you’re probably not always in front of your Linux PC listening to music using your favourite music player. That way you won’t have your last.fm profile page automatically updated with recently listened tracks. So what do you do? Use can use last.fm Linux client to scrobble your ipod manually in [...]

10 Steps for Basic Linux Desktop Security

I agree that Linux is less vulnerable than Windows, but that doesn’t make it immune to attackers. It’s not always about security flaws, buffer overflows or denial of service attacks. Most intruders exploit incorrect system configurations or access permissions which are often caused by user ignorance. I came up with a list of 10 basic [...]