30 Nov 2011
Posted by Quantum at 9:04 pm
During my upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 several things broke, this is nothing new there were alot of major graphical components updated. Those issues were resolved in the week following the F16 release. What I had not expected to break was my network printing setup. In all the years I used Gentoo and upgraded [...]
06 Jan 2011
Posted by Quantum at 5:03 pm
It has been just over a month since I switched my Linux computers from Gentoo to Fedora. I am happy to report that all is going well. There have been a few issues but these are minor annoyances rather than major problems. The first problem was with my laptop. Having started using it with Fedora [...]
29 Nov 2010
Posted by Quantum at 8:53 pm
Over the past month I have been getting to grips with using Fedora 14 on my Laptop, Netbook and Desktop. The install replaces the previous Gentoo installs. My primary reason for switching distribution has been updates and time. To keep machines upto date with security patches Gentoo needed to recompile alot of packages in some [...]
28 Jul 2010
Posted by Quantum at 5:42 pm
Over the past month I was having a little trouble with Gentoo being difficult to maintain (too many things broke at the same time). I decided to try another distro and after some initial reading decided to try Fedora 13 (64bit). The install on my server went smoothly and I had a working machine in [...]
08 May 2010
Posted by Quantum at 4:25 pm
For the past few weeks I have been having some performance glitches with the way my mouse interacts with my Linux machine. The mouse would move and the buttons operate normally except for when trying to press and hold the left button for example. The action would appear to terminate after a few seconds and [...]
07 Sep 2009
Posted by Quantum at 10:30 pm
Over the past couple of weeks I have been moving the mailserver project closer to being ready for actual use and another milestone has been passed. I have now reached the stage where my hotmail and gmail accounts are collected onto the server and made availiable via IMAP. This has not been without problems, I [...]
17 Aug 2009
Posted by Quantum at 4:06 pm
It has been a long time since I last updated the kernels on my linux machines. I had managed to keep the software up to date but the kernel upgrades are always a little more involved. Today is the day that they were all updated, all the software updated and rebuilt. Optimising the kernels is [...]
08 Jun 2009
Posted by Quantum at 11:36 pm
I have at long last done a little more work on the mailserver project. The latest thing to report is the addition of dspam to filter out spam. In addition to this clamAV is also integrated. The next step will be to do some more testing and then plug in another application which should make [...]
21 Apr 2009
Posted by Quantum at 5:48 pm
Recently when applying the updates to my Gentoo Linux machines a new version of Xorg-Server was presented. Normally package updates are straight forward, this one on the other hand needed a big change in drivers and config files. My main issue with the upgrade is the poor upgrade documentation, there is a lack of detail [...]
04 Apr 2009
Posted by Quantum at 5:09 pm
In my efforts to add spam and virus filtering to my mailserver project I needed to have a hardcopy of a man page. Whilst it is possible to forward the output to a file “man [command] > outputfile” or directly to the printer “man [command] | lpr” neither option is perfect. Directing the output to [...]
