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Eric Mesa | November 30, 2007
Mario is my main Linux box. I had to uninstall x264 this comes from the fact that I mixed livna and freshrpms. I never intended to do so, but I started with freshrpms back in the day, but nowadays I use livna for my graphics card. That plus freshrpms relative lack of [...]
Eric Mesa | November 30, 2007
“She’s going to be a slutty eight ball for Halloween?” – Me, hearing my wife incorrectly
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Eric Mesa | November 29, 2007
Posted over on Blender artists and told them about the problems I was having with Indigo and getting it to render Suzanne as glass. It turned out that I had two things wrong. One: I needed to set the gain to 2 instead of the standard 100. Apparently this controls the transparency [...]
Eric Mesa | November 27, 2007
The word irreverent is tossed around way too flippantly these days, however, if there’s one site that deserves it, it’s ZeroPunctuation. ZeroPunctuation is a site where a British guy living in Australia reviews video games within a video format weekly. He often makes fun of games and the genres they belong in. [...]
Eric Mesa | November 22, 2007
For nearly a year now, I’ve seen a lot of really great images in the blender gallery. Many of the most breathtaking images are rendered with outside renderers like Yafray or Indigo. Here’s an example of a subtle, but real-looking render made with Indigo.
Image by Sergio G Ejeda
I already tried Yafray before, and [...]
Eric Mesa | November 21, 2007
I followed the procedure at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq so the point of this is just to go over my experience with these steps.
Review and remove all .rpmsave and .rpmnew files before and after upgrading
I basically did a locate, found them and deleted them.
for a in $(find /etc /var -name ‘*.rpm?*’); do b=${a%.rpm?*}; diff -u $a [...]
Eric Mesa | November 20, 2007
The bootup screen is pretty, but….
The default GDM screen looks a little ugly to me….perhaps it’s just too new.
The new SELinux notification tool may be useful if something is not working correctly, but it just bugs the heck out of me as every single program appears to be trying to access protected memory. Of [...]
Eric Mesa | November 20, 2007
Well, at least it worked pretty well on my future PVR. I will give a more detailed explanation/directions of my experience for others who may be wondering if this is really as scary as it sounds since it’s “unsupported”. However, my main Linux computer is much, much more complex in the number of [...]
Eric Mesa | November 19, 2007
This short film won a contest over on MyToons.com and it’s no wonder!
Check it out!
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Eric Mesa | November 19, 2007
Well, the entire upgrade process is not yet over, so I don’t want to get too excited, but I think this may solve my problem. I started a yum upgrade on my living room computer – which will one day be my MythTv PVR (once I get the necessary hardware). It went through the dependency [...]
Eric Mesa | November 19, 2007
It may have been about to install or it may never have installed, but after 35 hours, I was getting a little annoyed. I’ve decided to try the unsupported yum upgrade. I’ll try it first one a guinea pig computer that’s at Fedora 7. If that works, I’ll try it on my real machine.
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Eric Mesa | November 19, 2007
It’s still right at the end of that little progress bar. The HDD activity light on my compute continues so I’m hoping it’s not frozen, but just working on figuring out the dependencies on all of my packages. I’m going to give it until I get home today and maybe until I go [...]
Eric Mesa | November 18, 2007
Upgrading to Fedora 7 didn’t take this long and neither did Fedora 6, but that’s ok – as long as it happens. It’s nearly done with the dependency checking. It’s been getting closer and closer to the end of the bar. Part of me thinks it may be stuck, but after waiting 10 hours to [...]
Eric Mesa | November 18, 2007
I tried upgrading Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 a few times when it first came out and it kept getting stuck at 26% in the dependency checking phase. I went on the fedora IRC room and I was told to remove my non-Fedora repos. I didn’t listen because that’s always the first thing [...]
Eric Mesa | November 18, 2007
“Nobody love a fat girl, but oh how a fat girl can love” – Sophie Tucker Song
Duc: “Do you like durian? durian?”
Brian: “Duran Duran? Sure, they’re an ok band.”
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