Archive for May, 2008
Well, I got wireless to work in F9, but because of mouse problems and graphics problems reverted back to F8. The suspense of the new release and the new features I had managed to experience drew me back to Fedora 9. I’ll post the guide for the wireless and a guide for fixing the problems I’ve had when all is running swimmingly.
In other news, my parent’s computer recently went down. After following all of Hewlett Packard’s directions on their troubleshooting page, I found that the motherboard was bad. However, being one who collects old parts, I hooked up a spare power supply and found that the computer worked flawlessly. Now my parents are the proud owners of a new Antec power supply.
General | 31.05.2008 20:09 | No Comments
While have gotten the wireless working on F9, I’ve had some issues with the color depth and touchpad. As a result I’ve digressed and am using F8 until someone more experienced can come up with a fix. Meanwhile, I’m going to dualboot gNewSense. It has the some of the same goals as the Fedora Project so I want to check it out too!
As far as the wireless guide is concerned, one must click some different buttons in the service dialog and add a new Wireless card in the network configuration(System>Administration>Network). The last task needs to be performed before the reboot.
General | 24.05.2008 21:09 | No Comments
Unfortunately, due to some bad burns and poor installation choices, it took me longer to get online than initially anticipated. I have noticed some minor differences in the way things are done setting up the wireless. If everything works well(I have yet to test the wireless), I’ll make the changes and post the new guide.
General | 22.05.2008 9:35 | No Comments
Beginning this post out of order, I’m about to let you know what I received in the mail yesterday. I, being a Christian, was rather excited to find that the 1599 Geneva Bible had been restored and purchased one some time ago. I received it yesterday and found that during production the page for Numbers 16 had gotten folded before the standard stamping done on the bibles. Since none of the text was messed up, I just had my mother cut off the excess with scissors. As a result, I started reading Numbers 16, assuming it was instructed of God.
I have Fedora 9 successfully burned to DVD and am installing as we speak. I initially tried to burn it on HP media only to find that my neither my notebook nor my mother’s would read it(Ironically she has a Compaq). I managed to find some Memorex DVD-Rs that worked perfectly though. I have done some research and plan to buy Taiyo Yuden media next time since it is believed to be the best on the market.
I anticipate being wireless by tonight and having a guide up by the morning.
General | 14.05.2008 14:22 | No Comments
No stranger to updating Fedora, I’ll be copying my personal files over to my spare drive tonight. While it is not exactly necessary to start fresh, I’d like to so I can experience it in all of it’s new undisturbed glory. While I’d like to be able to get it at midnight, historically Fedora has been released around 7-9am(central time).
General | 12.05.2008 20:44 | No Comments
I’m going to be getting Fedora 9 when it releases on the 13th. I’ll have it installed on the 14th on my new 120GB drive that I bought(I almost got a 32GB SSD) a few days ago. I hope to have a tutorial up by the sunset of the 15th(In Tennesse).
If the process is identical to the process for Fedora 8(I’ll try this first), I’ll rename the current document to include Fedora 9.
General | 7.05.2008 16:24 | No Comments
I’m rewriting some of the code for my website and will be testing it on my Usrbars page. It is likely that the page may end up being unreachable for a few minutes at a time. I’ll let you know when I’m all done playing.
Well, I couldn’t to what I wanted…maybe I will when I build the site on Rails
General | 3.05.2008 22:17 | No Comments
This is how I did it. Go to the Fedora Docs page to get cleaned up instruction sheet in a pdf made with OpenOffice.org.
General | 2.05.2008 22:28 | No Comments
The spring semester is back and I’m revving up to get docs up for Fedora 8 & 9. I’ll be maintaining the docs on the same cycle that the Fedora Project maintains the various Fedora versions. Plus I’m going to search the blog for my to-do list and get busy on those things. I’ll also start studying the Ruby programming language so I can use Ruby on Rails.
General | 2.05.2008 21:02 | No Comments
