I was doing a little something with the Twitter API, and noticed the page had been removed for whatever reason. I found it in Google Cache. And since you know how finicky GC can be, I've included it in this post. After the beep. (Click on more to hear the beep) (more…)

Audio was not working for Flash 9 in Firefox on Fedora 8, so after a lot of searching I discovered the following solution. In a terminal type: sudo /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss

You may not need the /sbin/, but I did. Then restart your Firefox window(s). Audio should be working fine now.

I'm not a Windows fan. I'm not a Linux fan. I'm (really) not a OS X fan. I'm a fan of getting things done, on whatever OS, software, hardware I have available that won't make me break something out of aggravation. So to say that my Dream OS setup starts with a foundation of Linux is not supposed to tell you something about my software alliance. Instead, of worrying about which side of the fence I sit on, let's just take a look at how I dream about the future of Operating Systems that includes them all. (more…)

Just confirming that the guide on this page works as described. I was able to install VMWare on Fedora 8, bypassing the problems with compiling certain parts of the program.