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May
31
Fedora 7 install process
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It’s almost done installing. I’ve stayed up too long to go to sleep now. Although, I doubt I’ll stay up past one. I might have to finish it off tomorrow. Anyway…it looks like they’ve eliminated the time left to install. That’s probably a good thing as for the past 3+ years it’s always been horribly inaccurate. Instead they still you how many packages out of how many total packages have been installed. I’m down to the last 100 packages. Who knows how much longer is left? I’ll give it 15 more minutes.
I’ve left my torrent up on my Windows computer to be a good Samaritan, but almost noone is downloading from me. I’ll leave it on over-night, but I don’t know if I’ll leave it on all day tomorrow. MAYBE……
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May
31
Fedora 7 install
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I usually wait a while to install new Fedora releases, but a few things made me decide to give a whirl today. First of all, my torrent finished at a reasonable time. Second, Freshrpms is actually already ready for the upgrade. Finally, I read online that it’s a pretty stable release that doesn’t rock the boat too much. So here goes….
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May
31
Rhythmbox Revisited
Category: Linux, Music | 2 Comments
A while back (6 mo to a year ago), I tried Rhythmbox and found it too buggy for me. I absolutely hated it. I loved Amarok so I used that within KDE, but it took forever to load within Gnome. So what was I to do? Ever since Fedora started packaging Mono, I’ve been using Banshee. But I find it extremely slow, less featured than Rhythmbox, and without Podcast support. I hate iTunes, so my podcast support has been coming from Songbird. However, they have a really annoying bug that makes using it for podcasting horrible. (I’ve filed a bug report, but no fixes yet) Here’s an example of what the podcasting interface looks like: (click the image to see it full size)
This is horrible! I can’t see any of the MP3 metadata! The horrible part is that it’s there when it first grabs the files, but then dissapears as each file is downloaded!! Also, I was unable to subscribe to the Linux Link Tech show or the IEEE Spectrum podcast. Enter Rhythmbox. (again, click the image for full size)
Here you can see how much better this is! I can see the titles of each podcast and thus know which week’s podcast I’m listening to. Also, Rhythmbox allows me to delete the shows I’ve listened to. In Songbird, if I delete a podcast it is redownloaded next time around.
So far I’ve been using Rhythmbox all day long without any problems. I really like it a lot. It may become my new default player for Gnome and Gnome-like environments like Xfce.
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May
31
Pidgin Arrives in Fedora
Category: Fedora, Internet, Linux | Leave a Comment
I thought I’d have to wait for Fedora 7 to experience Pidgin (what gaim got renamed to due to their legal battles with AOL - as I previously blogged), but they provided it for Fedora Core 6.
The interface has changed a little. Here are some screenshots showing my first impressions on the differences:
Here’s Gaim
and here’s Pidgin
The main difference I noticed is that everyone is represented by a green dot if they are available instead of an icon representing their chat service. In other words, AOL contacts are no longer displayed as the AOL running man and MSN is no longer the chubby green guy.
The preferences menu looked superficially the same to me.
Gaim:
Pidgin:
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May
31
Fedora 7 is here!
Category: Fedora | Leave a Comment
And it’s called Moonshine. I like the name better than Zod, Fedora Core 6’s name.
Here’s the announcement from the Red Hat Mailing List:
* From: The Fedora Project
* To: fedora-announce-list redhat com
* Subject: Announcing Fedora 7 (Moonshine)
* Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 03:28:41 -0700Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we’ve
brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment.
Here, I’ll help you pour that … and some for me … *cough, cough*
Smoooooth … sure does taste good. It’s been sitting here in the jug
for almost a whole month now! Go ahead and help yourself to some
more:http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html
What’s the most important thing to do if you are upgrading your Fedora
version? Why, that’s easy! Read the release notes, it prevents
hangovers:http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes
What are new things to do with your Moonshine?
* Mix and remix this Moonshine to come up with as many flavored drinks
as there is Joe-Pye weed in the Appalachians. Want an OS to
send home with the students or staff? Add packages, remove
packages, spin it any way you like. Let a thousand distros bloom!* Bottle up that custom mix and call it an appliance. ISV building an
appliance product? Make an RPM, identify the minimal number of
packages needed for an appliance around that RPM, then build a
distro and a live image. Easy as moon pie.Gol’ darn, but this is good ’shine. *hic* There, is that enough? No?
Here, let me pour us some more, and we can toast the most important
part of this Moonshine — the makers. You thought I made it? Oh, no.
No special elite brewmaster here, I’m just a bartender, and this log
is my bar! Ha ha. No, really … see …Fedora 7 is the first release where the development was one hunnerd
and one per-cent in the community. How? It’s simple, cousin — all
the code was merged into a single external repository. Why? Same
great distribution quality, even more high-quality developers able to
work directly with the code and improve the flavor of over 7500
packages.Grab that jug, look inside, and you find:
* KDE? Yep, with Moonshine, Fedora and KDE are gettin’ downright
friendly with each other.* Laptops? A tickless kernel means better power consumption for
laptops; extended wireless functionality, meaning more chances
hardware will Just Work. Yee-ha!* Get those Live images, burn CDs or DVDs, and share them with your
friends and neighbors. This is the first Fedora distribution with
full Live CD/DVD capability.* Interoperability? Let’s start with resizing and reading of NTFS
file systems. How about those Liberation fonts, d’you like how they
just slip right in where other fonts were used?* Why stop with just one fruit jar of virtualization? This release
includes support for KVM and overall more virtualization capability.* As always, tasty new graphics for the Fedora 7 desktop, as well as
an updated Website look and functionality, including a new build and
package update system.More? Read up at:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-OverView.html
Oops, looks like we drank up all that jug. Guess I’ll just make a
trip over the torrents to get me another. All right, then, we’ll
see you. Y’all come back soon now, ya hear?= Want Fedora? Get Fedora =
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html
I’m torrenting now! (and you should be too - so I can get it faster!!)
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May
30
Mario Party 8…
Category: Video Games | 3 Comments
…is a lot of fun. I love pulverizing (and being pulverized) in the mini games.
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May
29
A hilarious Penny Arcade
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Can be found here. However, there is profanity involved, so don’t go there if that offends you. Otherwise hilarious. That’s all I have to say today, spent my time out of work watching disc 4 of “The Office” and pre-ordering Mario Party 8.
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May
28
Wii Remote Awesomeness
Category: Video Games, videos | Leave a Comment
This guy wrote software to control music loop software with a Wiimote. Unfortunately, I think it’s only for macs.
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May
28
Clear Water
Category: Blender | 2 Comments
Thanks to the helpful users over at blenderartists.org, I was able to solve the problem of the water turning black upon landing on the table in my fluid simulations. Apparently, I needed to turn on TraShadows (transparent shadows). You may want to save this for your last step because it causes the renders to take a LOT longer. I put the cup, table, and water with TraShadows on and you can see the results. (Click for full size)
You can also see in the high resolution picture that I “cheated” and made the domain end a little bit below the table. I didn’t know the water would end up over there so it unrealistically stays up in the air. All the fluid simulation tutorials tell you to keep the domain as small as possible to keep the baking from crashing Blender (and possible your computer), but how acceptable this is depends on the camera angle and on how long the scene lasts. In the video you probably didn’t even notice it. But in a still shot like this, it’s a killer. I’m so happy to finally figure out what I was doing wrong. I’m not going to redo that demo because of how long the render times are now, but for my next one, now I know what to do.
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May
28
I was the photographer for a wedding this weekend (that’s the reason behind the lack of any posts recently). Here are some of my favorite shots so far.
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May
26
Latest Demo
Category: Blender, computer animation | Leave a Comment
I tried another shot at using the physics engine and here’s my latest work. I rendered this at full HD resolution so it took 2 days and 7 hours to render these 990 frames. Enjoy!
Back to Basics - Bullet Physics Engine Dominoes (Part 2) from djotaku on Vimeo
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