Here's the command I found to set the default gnome-terminal height:
gconftool-2 /desktop/gnome/applications/terminal/exec --type string -s 'gnome-terminal --geometry=85x40'
Now when I hit "meta-t" I get the size gnome-terminal that I like.
Oh, to get "meta-t" to work, you might want to set this as well …
read moreI was able to setup the MediaIndexer (working project name) website and repository tonight so Brady and I have a place to coordinate. Trac + Mercurial was really pretty easy to setup; and I've had the sources in Mercurial for a week or so already (made it nice for copying code …
read moreI ran into an article that addresses a long-standing problem I've had with OpenSSH's known_hosts file; it doesn't store the port for a host so you can't ssh to different ports behind a router without getting warnings about fingerprint mismatches. The article descries how to access multiple machines at the …
read moreFor awhile now I've noticed that things in my home dir aren't setup optimally for my work flow. I've been trying to run with SELinux enabled and I run into development problems when I try to run web applications out of my home directory. Various parts of my home directory …
read moreConcordance has finally made it's way into Fedora!
I've been maintaining packages separately from Fedora for awhile now; the review has been there since October 2007! Unfortunately there were some legal concerns about the trademark over the name of the project ("harmony") originally, then when 0.20 was finally released … read moreI've looked for incremental backups that don't require root before, but I finally found it. Similar to rdiff-backup is a program called duplicity. It uses tar, gpg, and the rsync algorithm to store encrypted differential backups.
duplicity needs to be scripted a little bit to automate the backups. I came …
read moreI'm thinking about getting a Garmin Forerunner 50 but am concerned that the ANT USB thing won't work with Linux. I've seen a thread about ANT development drivers going into the kernel, but I haven't found any firsthand experiences. Anyone with any information about it? If it helps, the Garmin …
read moreI finally have all my boxes upgraded to F8 (via yum; viva la Live Upgrage SIG!). It really wasn't as bad as I anticipated, and in fact, probably much better than my anaconda-based upgrade for F7 since I had all my third-party repos enabled for the upgrade and didn't have …
read moreI've been using rdiff-backup for several windows computers recently and it has worked out well. I started looking into using it for linux, but ran into a small problem.
Transfers of the backups between computers assumes root access on the destination.
This is a big problem for me; there's no …
read moreecho setterm -powersave off -powerdown 0 -blank 0 >> /etc/rc.local
I found a new project that looks very promising for loading config for my Logitech Harmony 880 remote. Naturally, I built Fedora 7 i386 packages for it. I'd really like to get more codes programmed on the remote for controlling my MythTV box, and with having software for Linux so …
read moreSome of the biggest problems I see in Fedora these days are the following:
1. Lack of direction</p>
Since Fedora is a distribution for developers by developers in order
to test out new technology, the main tree ends up being a
hodge-podge of whatever each individual maintainer feels like …Since yum isn't capable of downgrading the correct package, I decided to try smart.
And after a couple hours (literally) of computing transactions, it worked.
Now, there's definitely some cleanup to do, but it's pretty good. Unfortunately smart isn't available for RHEL 5 yet (I've emailed rpmforge to request it …
read moreFigured I'd try upgrading again; this time from CentOS 4.5 to 5. When 4.5 came out I quickly tried just pushing the new centos-release and centos-release-notes packages onto the server and do a 'yum upgrade', but it failed trying to meet dependencies (kernel and kudzu, I believe).
So …
read moreFor awhile now my file server has been running Fedora Core 6. I never have a good time to upgrade it to Fedora 7 because I'm always using it.
In the beginning I had envisioned running multiple VMs on it for compiling packages; it's an x86_64 box, so I would …
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