Nov 9th, 2006 | Education, Java, Linux, OS, Perl, Personal, Programming, Technology | No Comments
I am not a Java fan and I do prefer doing all my stuff in Perl (due to the perl being more flexible and comfortable to code in [my personal view] and probably due to the nature of the tasks I have), but due to the college class Object Oriented Programming which is totally taught in Java, I have to install Sun JDK on my laptop for some time.
It turned out that the task is not that easy (actually easy, but tricky), but I found a nice article which describes all steps needed to get Sun JDK configured on the system - works for me
Nov 5th, 2006 | Linux, Networking, OS, Technology | 4 Comments
For the past few months I have been using FreeNX a lot for remote support of all kinds of server. I got so used to this tool and now I have a problem with it. After I have installed Fedora Core 6 on my laptop, the NXclient does not show any fonts/text in the remote window during the RDP sessions :(
I have checked everything I could, but still can not fix the problem, so if you have the same problem and you get a fix, please let me know, since my life is getting harder with no FreeNX :(
Oct 31st, 2006 | Linux, OS, Technology | No Comments
Still playing around FC6 and stuff included :). This time I came around the TomBoy Notes applet for GNOME which provides user with a feature of creating notes. I have seen similar stuff many times (including KNotes in KDE), but this one is much better just because of one additional feature: you can link some text of one note to a other note.
It looks like some simple Wiki for desktop. Very handy. Sometime I just have too many things which are related but are too much to be put on one note. With TomBoy, I can have all my ideas, todos and other stuff organized and easy accessible.
Oct 30th, 2006 | Google, Linux, OS, Software, Technology, Web Services | No Comments
It seems that for the past few days I got stuck on checking up different bits of software. This time I want to share some more of my expirience:
1. NetworkManager - I haven’t checked this apps for a while now and I was amazed on how good it is. It detects all network settings and informs me about all WiFi networks available in the area. It is also very handy to switch to a WiFi connection detected just by selecting it in the list.
2. Firefox 2 - I have installed FF2 immediately after I got FC6 running on my laptop. It seems to good, with some additional nice features like inline spell check, but I have missed one other thing there - a restart session restore (thanks for CBN to pointing it out). Now I have removed a Google Sync extension since I was using it only to restore my pages and now it can be done directory by Firefox built-in functionality.
3. GNOME - I’ve been using KDE for a long time and like it a lot, but it seems that GNOME works much better (with all those effects and whatever) in FC6 release. I think that I will probably stick with GNOME for a while and see what I do later (though I am waiting for KDE 4 a lot).
Oct 29th, 2006 | Linux, OS, Technology | No Comments
I know that IE is not the best browser out there, but since I do some web-development and I need the web-sites I do to be also compatible with IE, I have to have IE installed on my linux box. Fortunately, there are guys out there who created a very nice script to set everything up automatically. The only thing to be done is to install wine-* and cabextractor packages from yum and then run the script. Works great.
For the script and installation instructions (for fedora) go here.