http://www.fergytech.com The lovechild of technology and mayhem! Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:09:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I ended up installing a fresh copy of Fedora 9 this morning.  Didn't take long at all.  I didn't have the patients to try and figure out why my xserver wouldn't work after my upgrade from Werewolf to Sulphur.  When I got home yesterday I reinstalled my video card ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/27/clean-install/ So last night I finally decided to upgrade my home desktop from Fedora 8: Werewolf (best name ever) to Fedora 9: Sulphur. My main reasoning was to get Banshee 1.0 installed and have a happier podcasting life. Lukily for me I have a seperate partition to store my ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/26/unable-to-connect-to-xserver/ I am experiencing a deafening silience when it comes to the audio on my Fedora box.  As of this article being published I can not hear audio playing on my computer.  Such as: MP3s, Oggs YouTube, Hulu, and Flash-based player Ironically when I do a "Soundcard Detection" it does find it, I hear ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/24/silence/ I've created a new category called "Linuxapade" - from the multilingual word "escapade".  I wanted to see if I can document my adventures with the wonderful, yet frustrating, yet rewarding world of linux.  It's a mad house over here, almost like going on a seven day adventure to the land ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/23/the-linuxapade-chronicles/ This robot stuff is getting more and more freaky.  I got this link from one of my rss feeds.  Check out Robot Dreams for more information.  I'm telling you, when the Mech wars start - Japan will come crashing down on the US.  We'll probably have armored soldiers, but they'll ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/19/mech-wars-coming-soon/ What is Flock?  I don't know... ha-ha.  Seriously; I'm not too clear, but I found it on my RSS feed today from LinuxInsider.  So far it looks great.  It's a web browser targeted to users of social networks, heh - that's me!  You can have a side tab with your ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/17/flock/ I saw this on a post from Fresh Ubuntu podcast. You gotta love linux programmers. I'm a big fan of ordering pizza online. The problem is the closest Dominos, in my area, keeps screwing up the orders. Besides that - this video is awesome and I'm ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/13/using-linux-to-order-pizza/ I'm So Sick from BaronSoosdon on Vimeo. I saw a video posted on WoW Insider and I thought it was very cool. Wide screen is something new you don't see with online videos. I don't know what Vimeo is, but so far I love their video player and widescreen. http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/06/wow-im-so-sick-music-video/ Quick Answer: Delete any related file ending in ".ev-summary" in the ~/.evolution/mail/local/ folder.  Make sure Evolution is closed before you do this. Rant: Here's my ordeal with this horrible error, at least to a noob in linux, like myself.  I couldn't figure out why I was getting this error.  When I ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/03/evolution-summary-and-folder-mismatch-even-after-a-sync/ I'm a bit confused by the methods people go about reporting news now-a-days. I'm probably late to the game, but it seems that everyone is stealing, borrowing, whatever from each other and you have to dig down into 2 or 3 levels of blogs in order to get the ... http://www.fergytech.com/2008/06/03/fedora-9-vs-ubuntu-804/