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 [...]
Fedora 14 Animated GIF fix
Nov 30
Driven by Now
Nov 13
To start, this marks as my 100th post since starting this new web site in January 2008. It has been a fun and useful vehicle to me to post, share, and learn. It’s a keeper. I am going to stray off the beaten path of technology and rants a bit by sharing a recently emerged [...]
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 [...]
Caché
Oct 23
As an anniversary gift (18-years), my wife bought me this vanity plate: CACHE. It was a little peeve of mine to have a Rhode Island plate that started with NY, so I secretly wished to replace it for the longest of time. Well, after an online order that took 8-weeks to fill AND spending 4-hours [...]
