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  • Website Changes.

    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 :D

    Some content still needs to be ...

  • Security updates only for Fedora 7 / RHEL & Centos 5

    I found this on redhat.comthe 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 ...

  • USB Networking with Fedora 7 & n800

    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 ...

  • Nokia n800 icon

    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 ...

  • Firefox Extension - Flashblock

    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 ...

  • My Maemo Bugs Activities.

    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 ...

  • Weather Wallpaper rpm for Fedora 7

    It's not often I blog twice in a day, but after seeing this post I just had to see if I could build a rpm for fedora 7.

    I've updated my repo for fedora 7, so.. yum install weather-wallpaper should do the trick :cool:

    Edit: Hidden yum transation ...

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