Oh dear, it seems that F14′s cairo package is not properly implemented by GNOME and Firefox web browser — if your Gnome is giving you fits with its pull-down menus not entirely rendering and if animated GIFs are only showing their 1st frame and the rest transparent equating to an annoying “blink” effect, then this [...]
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Fedora 14 Animated GIF fix
Nov 30
I decided to move my KVM winxp.img file (20GB) into a larger logical volume (32GB), because then I could leverage all that LVM2 has to offer in snap, clone, and mirroring. That was a simple set of operations: # lvcreate -n lv_winxp -L 32G vg_supermicro8 # dd if=/mnt/virt/winxp.img of=/dev/vg_supermicro8/lv_winxp bs=8192 2621440+0 records in 2621440+0 records [...]
Fedora 14
Nov 7
So far, I performed two `preupgrade` operations successfully: one on a bare-metal workstation install and the other on a KVM guest. That said, I did not want to attempt that on my home workstation, not because of any lack of faith that it would “just work”, but I decided it was time to relinquish the [...]
CommodoreServer
Oct 2
Talk about retro-cool technology. This web site features a new internet modem for all Commodore 8-bit computers, for easy “Load & Go” access into their online software library. And I was able to contribute to that library my very own VIC 20 collection as a floppy disk. How neat is that? This demo is fascinating [...]
The latest release in WinUAE 2.3 pictured here running alongside the latest svn checkout in VICE 2.3.6: Nice!!
