FergyTech

There are a lot of things happening in my life, but it’s not time to broadcast them yet. The kids are fine (all 3 of them) and me and the wife are happy. My full-time job at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is becoming more stable since I made a very hard decision about my freelance work with Digital · Alias. One can surely guess what I mean based on that sentence, but since everything isn’t final – I’ll keep it vague.

In the world of Linux, I’m getting very tired of Firefox not working out the way I’d like it to. It’s always ran very slow on my desktop (Fedora x86_64). I’ve switched to Epiphany (a GNOME project) and boy does that web browser need some work. Good thing is, it’s fast, bad thing is it’s very immature and I miss ALL the convenient features Firefox has. I’ll stick with it because I need speed more than convenience.

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I still don’t know the full story about this GNOME Do program, but so far it’s the best thing… besides slice bread…  you just can’t beat that!  I’ve heard about this package when Fedora 9 was released.  I installed it on my laptop, but never really learned, nor took the time, to understand how it works.  Recently, there was a blog post (LifeHacker) that highlighted the new “Docky” theme, which gives your Linux box a certain popular MAC component.  I’m not going to take a sip of the hateraide, this Docky component is awesome and it’s given my Fedora 10 a new lease on life!

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I’ve run into this issue from time to time and I would normally have to reboot.  So; one day I said, “No more!  This is LINUX and I should be able to work around it.”  Oh!? What issue am I talking about?  When your GNOME panel gets stuck and there’s nothing you can do about it!  I’m going to show you how to kill your gnome-panel process and then restart it.  Note that it’s only a temporary solution – I know there’s a better way, but this will do for the time being.

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Quickly; just wanted to help promote this blog post.  If you have Gnome and you’re running Compiz and you’ve notice a very weird graphical glitch when running Virtualbox in Seamless mode, then here’s the workaround for you!  The blog post is by Rick Fleming.

Gnome + Compiz + Virtualbox Seamless Window + Workaround = Awesome

I tried it and it works.  It wasn’t extremely easy to understand though. At first, I didn’t know where the .exe file was.  You can find the executable file in “VBoxWorkaround\obj\Release\VBoxWorkaround.exe”.  Create a shortcut and put it in your “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup” folder.

Download the Workaround File

Just in case their server is down, I’ve provided the files below.

Virtualbox Workaround

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 opened Evolution I would get a pop-up saying “Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync”.  I thought it was my mail stored on my server, I have 4 pop accounts and I ended up deleting all the old emails 500+ each (Yeah I’m a pack rat).  It was literally driving me crazy because it wanted to redownload ALL my old emails.

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