Clementine-Player is Amarok 1.4 Qt4 clone for Fedora 12

Found at http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/

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ffmpeg with aac support in Fedora 12

I have found a pretty helpful article for ffmpeg recompile: http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2009/11/recompiling-ffmpeg-for-fedora-12-to-add-faac-support.html . However, it looks like the instructions were incomplete.

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Major Fedora 11-to Fedora 12 Switch, Acer Aspire 6930G Laptop

A made a couple of installations of Fedora 12 on several laptops and had decided to find the time to make this with my working laptop as soon it looked mature enough for the production mode (provided you get install packages from the network).

I also decided not to make a continuous story but write some brief statements in the regard of migrating form from FC11 to FC12.

DISCLAIMER

The below is my notes and impressions only. Do not use on your hardware, I bear no responsibility for your actions.

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PHP, MySQL, AJAX Freelancer Programmer And Web Application Developer Available for Hire

Having coded PHP, MySQL and Javascript hard for around 10 years, I can witness that communication is the key to problem solving for any project of any complexity level.

I am currently looking for a long-term php programming-related position, please read on to see main highlights of my professional experience.

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Making Netbeans PHP IDE 6.8 work for Fedora 12

The yum repos for Fedora 12 contain some older version of Netbeans that fail to load out of the box. Moreover, php development is non-existent in the parallel universe of people who create repos for Fedora 12, and we have to live through it somehow… Read the rest of this entry »

Huawei E1550 Install

Please refer to http://wiki.lynxworks.eu/misc/e1550#fedora.

Install usb_modeswitch:

sudo yum -y install usb_modeswitch

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Googleearth Russian Fonts Fix

A friend of mine had a problem with incorrect display of the Russian fonts with Googleearth installed to the default location at /opt/googleearth.

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Skype Fix

Everything you need is:

sudo yum install control-center-extra pulseaudio-libs.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 dbus-qt.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686

Then install skype in a normal way as I describe here.

Tested on HP Compaq CQ71 laptop.

Conky-colors Plus on Fedora 11

The below describes how to install Conky-colors Plus on Fedora 11. You can have a look how it generally looks like at its original web site.

Prepare for the installation:

cd ~/software/
sudo yum install pystatgrab statgrab-tools

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Making outdated Block Countries plugin for Wordpress work

Attention

You must have a local LAMP installation for painless processing of the following.

Download the plugin from http://www.jasonlitka.com/2007/04/16/wordpress-plugin-block-countries/ . Install in a regular way. Do not go to options now.

Download ip database from http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/node/view/6

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Psychedelic Mind Trash from Twitter

Thanks for following me, Andy…

Setup Loaders for ionCube Encoded Files System-Wide (Fedora)

Read http://www.ioncube.com/loader_installation.php.
Download the loaders from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php:

cd ~/software
wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.bz2

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