Like all the rest of the applications it looks awfully small on a hidpi display. Now, it is a wine application and you can change the wine’s DPI setting per WINEPREFIX. However, teamviewer comes with its own, outdated copy of wine that lacks the comfortable winecfg. If you need one, you can just grab a … Read More →
Second part, where experiments with VPNs start Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 So, for the starters. I have a small LAN here with about a dozen of devices that speak to internet. A couple of notebooks, an HTPC, one desktop and various smartphones and tablets. When it comes to the users number it is … Read More →
A friend of mine was using this NAS for some time. For three+ years to be more precise. And he was considerably happy given the price he paid for it. A week ago he called me telling the thing is dead and he has run out of ideas. He is a smart guy but he … Read More →
sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_17/games.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/steam.repo rpm -ivh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_17/src/steam-1.0.0.18-1.1.src.rpm cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS rpmbuild -bb steam.spec sudo yum localinstall ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/steam-1.0.0.18-1.1.x86_64.rpm steam Or here
Not really about solving the performance problems but rather about finding them first. The “There are items missing data for more than 10 minutes” is one of the default triggers in recent zabbix installation and it indicates a problem with your queue (zabbix has no queue btw, just like there is no spoon :). So … Read More →
I needed to save web pages screenshots. The closest option to my initial environment was Fedora Linux 16 on Amazon EC2 is python-webkit2png. To make it work on the headless server and render flashes I had to: Get the base Fedora AMI running, I’ve selected the first one I’ve found (ami-7bf4c90f) and ran it … Read More →
My first Linux installed and used was RedHat 5.0 Hurricane from 1997. And I’ve been a RedHat desktop user until the 9 came out in 2003. Now 8 years later I am back again. Been long lost in many distributions but seems like finally fedora convinced me to come back 🙂 So here I am … Read More →
Fennec rc1 on n900 Still slow like … Well, slower than microb
The Trinity of Personal Computing Originally uploaded by Photo Giddy
What’s wrong with it? … here’s what MSI’s US sales director Andy Tung told our friend Joanna at Laptop when she asked about high return rates:We have done a lot of studies on the return rates and haven’t really talked about it much until now. Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks … Read More →