Today has been a busy day for linickx.com the poor server must be tired, I’ve made a whole load of changes today including wordpress upgrades and url moves - I’ve removed the word “blog” from everywhere as it was kinda redundant

Some content still needs to be ported from my custom php to wordpress, but it should all be finished soon. I’ve got the wonderful redirection plug-in taking care of everything, if you experience any problems please let me know !

I found this on redhat.com the other day….

It is now possible to limit yum to install security updates only. To do so, simply install the yum-security plugin and run the following command:

yum update –security

Hopefully this will allow fedora users to have the option of running a “stable” install

There are times where you cannot use WiFi, for example my workplace’s WLAN uses LEAP, which maemo doesn’t support. I found that setting up USB networking on my n800 was a bit of a pain since there isn’t a single document… if you check my del.icio.us feed you’ll see I bookmarked all I could find with a usbnet tag.

These are the steps I ran through to enable usb networking between my nokia n800 and my fedora 7 laptop.

• maemo.org - DummyIAP
  To make the maemo connectivity subsystem work with “non-standard” connections, such as Bluetooth PAN, you need to create a “dummy” internet access point
  (tags: n800 maemo)
• Welcome to Fedora64.Org Fedora 64
  The Fedora 64 Project has been created by concerned peers in the Fedora Community to bring quality solutions for 64bit Fedora to the Community.
  (tags: fedora linux x86_64)
• Managing Spam Maintenance with Akismet Auntie Spam Version 2 Internet Duct Tape
  Akismet Auntie Spam is a maintenance script for WordPress administrators
  (tags: wordpress blogging anti-spam akismet)

After seeing this post on planet maemo, I wanted to replace my “applications” button with an n800 icon, but I couldn’t find one anywhere… I found a couple of icons in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon that where close to what I wanted (there’s a bluetooth icon, and input one) but they weren’t quite right, so this is what I managed to mash up.

(Image License)

Hope you like it!

I’m not a great fan of flash, it seems to eat up bandwith, processor and memory very quickly.. not to mention the hassle of trying it working on a linux x86_64 machine ! I recently came across this great plug-in..

Flashblock :: Firefox Add-ons
Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won’t get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on…

The white-list functionality is nice… i.e block all except “blah”.. the option to run it in a black-list mode would be good for those who are only offended by flash on certain sites.

Apologies to anyone who works on the bugs.maemo team, I was bored this AM and decided to ask for some features I want, as I felt guilty about using up someones time (who could be coding fixes for real problems), I also decided to check if some bugs reported by other people where also bugs on my n800…. ahh, back to work