Fedora 16
22 Oct 2011
Posted by Quantum at 3:51 pm
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Fedora 15 – Initial Thoughts
31 May 2011
Posted by Quantum at 11:28 pm
I took the plunge a few days ago and updated my machines to Fedora 15. The results have been mixed. My netbook and laptop were the first to be upgrades with Intel and Nvidia graphics respectively. Both upgraded fine and the Gnome 3 experience was ok, if a little strange. The problems started with my [...]
Git – Version Control
06 Jan 2011
Posted by Quantum at 7:21 pm
Until very recently I had never used any sort of version control system. I was aware of the existence of Git, SVN, CVS, Darcs, Mercurial etc. but never needed to use any. A version control system is a setup where by the changes to a set of files are tracked over time. This enables a [...]
Fedora 14 – One Month On
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 [...]
No More Gentoo
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 [...]
Experiences with Windows 7 & SSD
31 Aug 2010
Posted by Quantum at 8:09 pm
This week I took delivery of a 40GB Solid State Drive (SSD) an a copy of Windows 7 Professional to give a boost to my quad core box. Windows XP has had a good run and it is getting to the point where an OS upgrade is needed to get the best out of the [...]
Arduino + Ethernet Sheild + Linux 64 Bit = Headache
20 Jun 2010
Posted by Quantum at 6:04 pm
I have been trying for the past few hours to get the simple web server sketch working with an arduino board and my recently acquired ethernet shield. All seemed to be going well the sketches were uploading to the board and I was able to ping the ip address over the network. Why then could [...]
Plugin Enhancement
05 Apr 2010
Posted by Quantum at 6:39 pm
My previous modification to the CodeColorer syntax highlighting plugin for WordPress has been integrated into the official 0.9.8 release. I received a request to enhance the modification furthur. Instead of having a long comma separated list of individual line numbers to be highlighted it would be beneficial if ranges of numbers could be specified. I [...]
