Before you read, here is a bit of warning: Do not install the nVidia driver that you can download from nVidia.com. The driver may install fine but may not work as you expect. You are much better of following the procedure below. Full article (140 words) »

You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them. Additionally I found the instructions to be redundant and based on incomplete inderstanding of how gdm works. The following is the simplest set of instructions you can find anywhere to autostart synergyc on Fedora / CentOS / RHEL etc.

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With the success of Fedora in Linux distributions, Fedora 10 is perhaps the most anticipated operating system from their library. A faster and advanced distribution is what is proposed by them. Fedora 10, codenamed Cambridge, is set for release on November 25, 2008. So before you go on and download this new Fedora version, let me give you a detailed idea about what benefits and changes are going to be there in this new Fedora 10.

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CodeWeaver's released a port of Google's Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser. CrossOver Chromium is free and available for download here.

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Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements. In such cases you may want to manually stop cpu speed daemon and restart it later again if required. Here are the required commands:

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Many like to twitter using IM (Instant Messenger) because it is very simple and fast to tweet and simple to get continuous updates on your topics of interest.

In the good old days Twitter used to provide IM support. You could use any Instant Messenger supporting Jabber (XMPP protocol) to connect to Twitter buddy (twitter@twitter.com) on Gooogle GTalk server and twitter to your hearts content. For several months however Twitter has stopped supporting IM. How can we satiate our twitter crush during their downtime? There is a way.

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You may see the following error in Fedora 8 while starting / restarting the network (service network restart):

FATAL: Module off not found.

Let's see how we can fix this.

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In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only. However you can also use it to open msi files as follows: Full article (47 words) »

I tried installing Thunderbird 2 from Fedora Core 6 Development Respository, the file actually belongs to currently in development Fedora 10. Yum / Yumex required that nss package be updated too in order to update Thunderbird. The update went through fine but the software couldn't be run because of initialization error in libgfx_gtk.so and I couldn't find any help on the net either.

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Login as or su to root and run:
yum -y install pcre zlib lighttpd

That's it folks!

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