Fedora 14 Post Install Shtuff

Add the RPM Fusion repositories for extra packages not available in Fedora Core:
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

Follow the wiki to get Adobe Flash plugin installed:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#Enabling_Flash_plugin

Then play some Minecraft:
http://sixgun.org/fab/blog/2011/minecraft-howto-f15?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sixgun+%28Sixgun+Productions%29

Selleck Waterfall Sandwich

Yes its silly and its the new hit on the internet, but it gives me LOLz.

Polls: Majority Supports Collective Bargaining; Walker Would Lose Election Re-Do

Polls: Majority Supports Collective Bargaining; Walker Would Lose Election Re-Do

Citrix ICAClient didn't integrate with Firefox on Ubuntu Natty A2...

Citrix ICAClient didn't integrate with Firefox on my install of Ubuntu Natty Alpha 2. Not sure why, but resolved it by pointing it to the correct binary:
/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica

Thanks to: http://www.agaveblue.org/howtos/Citrix_ICA_How-To.shtml

UbuntuStudio Natty Alpha 2 Good Radeon Performance and a Dying laptop

So I downloaded and install UbuStu Natty Alpha 2 to check it out. Mostly I wanted to see how video performance was with the newer 2.6.38 kernel and radeon drivers. Well the performance is much better than even with 2.6.26 which I run on my AVLinux install. I can even play Minecraft with it. :)

The sad news is that my laptop is finally starting to die. :( I get graphics freeze ups occacionally, usually after running something 3d for a while like Minecraft or Left 4 Dead. I finally get decent video performance on this laptop on Linux and it is burning out. Foobar.

Here I Sit

This is from a while back, waiting our the wife's labor at the hospital. My poor attempt at poetry :/

Here I sit.
At a table in the cafeteria.
A mix of scrubs and street cloths.
Stories of worry and excitement.
Reminds me of old airport terminals.
A place that combines sad with the anxious.
Here I sit.
This is why I am here.
A long time before my wife will bear.
A life so precious and without a care.
This will be the father she meets.

Installing Canon PIXMA MP210 on ArchLinux

So it took a little bit trial and error, but I finally got my printer working tonight.  Here's the just of what it took.

1. Follow steps here to get CUPS up and running.  Make sure to blacklist 'usblp'.
2. Install the cnijfilter-mp210 package from AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16696
3. Add 'acl' option to your root file system mount. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32959
4. I could see my printer was recognized now when plugged in from the output of 'dmesg |tail'.  But whenever I tried to print a test page I got an error in my cups log(http://localhost:631/admin/log/error_log) complaining like: '
   

   Unable to open listen socket for address ::1:631 - Address family not supported by protocol.'

5. I deleted the printer and reinstalled it. Pointed it to my ppd file in /usr/share/cups/model. And it works! I notice the device path in the printer config changed, maybe a bad one got autoconfiged before I did the blacklist. :/
   

Woot, let's burn some ink!