I’m away a lot at the moment, so It’s hard to do any website stuff

Anyway by a strange twist in fate I’ve ended up with a new latop & mobile phone in the same week !

HP Home Page

Fedora Core 3 works out if the box, and google seems to find quite a lot, so it’ll be fun getting things working again

Sony Home Page

The phone has bluetooth so straihgh away I’m able to upload stuff to the phone Google throw’s up alot about p900 & p800 but initial playing shows that theses don’t necessarily work , again I’m sure my BLOG will reflect what I find

yes it’s taken me 3 weeks to notice, but art.gnome.org have approved my splash screen !

The link is here http://art.gnome.org/themes/splash_screens/1013/ and now I’m inspired to do a little more !

happy happy joy joy

I’ve been offline for a bit due to work commitments, and my laptop has just died, so I’m in the process of restoring to a new one

I thought I have a random look at my adsense account, and to my supprise I’ve made a $1.04 which is about 54p ! - wow.
so…
Keep Clicking People ! Thanks

grr… I need to vent some frustration… if you don’t know what the beagle is you should check their website:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/

In a nutshell it’s a cutting egde gnome search tool, and everything I’ve read about it is really positive, the problem is there doesn’t seem to be many Fedora Users using it, so there isn’t much documentation on getting it working… I was thinking about doing my own, but I’ve messed about with my laptop so much, that even if i do get it to work I’ll have forgotten what I’ve done !

I’m in the process of tring to get beagle working on my FC3 Laptop, being my usual read the instructions later self, I added the yum repo suggested on Beaglewiki.org and it resolved all it’s dependencies, and I thought all was good, but it wasn’t .

Turns out my laptop installed the latest kernel from the official fedora updates, rather than a custom one that i needed… So I decided to have a go at building it myself

The beagle guys provide their own src.rpm so I just tried using the “patch” info in that to patch the latest proper kernel from Fedora/Redhat… but no joy :’( …but then I found a cracking thread on fedoraforum.org

For a short time I had a Sony PCG-C1F laptop …

Now these boxes are quite old, so it get sound working in Fedora Core 3 we’d need some legacy sound card support. Sound cards in FC3 are powered by ALSA & the alsa project is very comprehensive, and support the sound card in this box… BUT surprisingly, on a clean install of fedora it doesn’t work

So what do we need to do to get legacy sound cards to work ?

According to the ALSA documentation we need to run a configuration utility called alsaconf.. but it doesn’t exist. I found a thread on the fedora list that explained this…

I’ve got a few posts in my wordpress drafts that are based around rebuilding RPMS, I figure that before I finish them it makes sense to wrte a Getting Started Guide.

The first thing is based around the “Unix Golden Rule”: Only use root when you have to.

To rebuild rpms you need a cirtain directory stucture, it is located in /usr/src/redhat, but since it is owned by root you’re gonna need on in your $HOME. The following does the job:

It was lunchtime, & I was broswing the web, I stumbled across a $HOME of gnome applications http://gnomefiles.org/ and there in the top 10 most popular applications something caught me eye… what was Mail Notify?

After a short broswe of the pojects home page, I was already searching for a RPM to install, and to my suprise those smashing people on the Fedora Extra’s team have already made one ! …

mail-notification-1.1-1.i386.rpm

I loaded it up & this is great ! a system tray application that can check multiple mail accounts (including gmail), and it don’t look half bad either !

This is my 1st mini-project !

Written completely in PHP it’s a web front end to manage ices.

A short while ago I stubled across www.icecast.org whilst looking for a way to stream MP3’s from my house to my desk @ work To Stream MP3’s you need a Streaming Server , i.e. something to stream audio to the clients and a Broadcast Server i.e. something to broadcast your audio file (*.mp3) to the streaming server. I’ve used both icecast (Streaming Server) & ices (Broadcast Server) , both of which only have shell (command line) & text file config tools, not exactly pretty & lots of typing