Technology – Page 12

Upgrading from Fedora 14 to 18

This post is about the upgrade process I followed to upgrade a VM from Fedora 14 to Fedora 18. I had struggled with this in the past but managed to get it working now. It probably helped that some time had passed and I did more research. As it transpired the upgrade from F14 to… read more…
The case for FLAC

Often the pursuit of having our music collections accessible wherever we happen to be begins with digitising cds. For many this transformation begins with iTunes or Media Player, either way the result is a digital collection in one file format or another. If you live in an Apple universe and just want it done quickly… read more…
Problems with single quotes, JSP and PostgreSQL

I have a small web app that updates various PostgreSQL tables. I recently updated from Fedora 14 to Fedora 18 and as a result PostgreSQL was updated and I expect JDK as well. All of a sudden I notice I couldn’t update rows which contained strings when the strings had single quotes in them. I… read more…
Apache Directory Studio

I recently started playing with OpenLDAP and as a consequence went on the search for a LDAP client. I had been using the Softerra LDAP browser several years ago and it seemed to do what I want but I now see the free version is somewhat limited so I went looking. I found the Apache… read more…
Installing Tiger VNC on Fedora 16

VNC is a great product that allows you to get a GUI session between different or the same O/S. This article describes installing VNC on a Fedora 16 box Steps 1. Using YumEx or similar install TigerVNC 2. Copy: /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service to /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:1.service – Where I have “:1.” to which ever port you want to use… read more…
Fix Firefox so it uses the Adobe Acrobat plugin for PDFs

Have you noticed recently that when you look at PDFs in Firefox the plugin doesn’t look quite the way you are used to, it’s more gray and doesn’t have any of that typical Adobe Acrobat look and feel to it. In particular if you move to the bottom of the window you don’t see the… read more…
OpenLDAP for Windows

This is a very simple article to keep small bits of info about installing OpenLDAP for Windows. I am using the version available from UserBooster as it seemed to work quite well for me. Resources OpenLDAP for Windows from UserBooster http://userbooster.de/en/download/openldap-for-windows.aspx The licensing for OpenLDAP for Windows from UserBooster states: “OpenLDAP for Windows is free… read more…
Running ESXi 5.1 from a USB key

Overview There are quite a lot of postings on the web about upgrading to ESXi 5.1 and running from a USB key but this post is more about my experience and basically a note to myself about what I did so if I have to do it again I know what I did. Who knows… read more…
Disabling screensavers on Fedora 16

The motivation here was that I had a MythTV frontend running in our lounge connected to a 42″ flat screen with LED back lighting, I had no need to have a screensaver and actually found it very annoying. Unfortunately, at least on Fedora 16, disabling or removing the screensaver is not as easy as you… read more…
Fedora 16 with NVidia GT 610 and MythTV

The trials and tribulations of getting an NVidia GT 610 graphics card working on a Fedora 16 MythTV frontend. This article details what worked for me. read more…