Marek Mahut

Let me invite you all to FUDCon that will take place in Brno during September 5 – 7, 2008. You will have chance to participate to hack-fest as well to various presentations: func, FirstAidKit, Transifex, SecurityAudit, Fedora Astronomy and much more! Visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008 for more information.

From time to time, I need to clean my disk from useless stuff I’ve installed over time. It’s just amazing how much of packages I can install during debugging and configuring every day. If I’m short of disk space, I start first by reviewing biggest packages on my system:
[mmahut@mmahut repo]$ rpm -qa –queryformat ‘%10{size} %{name}-%{version}\n’ [...]

The Prophecy of the 9 comes true (Fedora 9 walks the earth!).
Check what’s new, make a tour and finally download it!

According to the schedule, tomorrow is the big day. Have your torrent clients prepared.

Today’s history. And no, I’m not using mc.
[mmahut@mmahut ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
135 ls
132 cd
78 vi
52 find
36 git
28 ssh
25 klist
21 rpmbuild
19 grep
17 rpm
[mmahut@mmahut ~]$

I’ve been fighting with this problem for two days. At work, we use kerberos to access most of our resources including internal websites with mod_auth_kerb. Using GSSAPI, your configured firefox should show the website if you’re owner of a valid ticket and prompt for a password one and only one time when you’re not. We [...]

From today you can enjoy GNU/Radio in Fedora. What’s GNURadio? It’s a python-based software for deploying SDR (Software Defined Radios). One of the most popular along hardware for usage of SDRs is Universal Software Radio Peripheral, it’s just a small electronic board, quite cheap and what’s interesting, with open design.

This small board pre-process [...]

There are tons of articles like this one on the internets, thus I’m just writing this down as my personal note. First let’s check for the package.
[root@mmahut ~]# rpm -qa cryptsetup-luks
cryptsetup-luks-1.0.5-7.fc8
[root@mmahut ~]#
After un-mounting /and backing up :)/ our home directory, we need to erase everything on it.
[root@mmahut ~]# shred -n 5 -v /dev/vg00/lvhome
shred: /dev/vg00/lvhome: [...]

Nayyar Ahmad announced that he convinced Mozambique Ministry of Finance (SISTAFE) to migrate their workstations around the country from MS Windows to Linux (Fedora 7). It’s a big step forward for Fedora as well for Linux in general.

“Describes all the proposed features for Fedora 8. There are several new additions that will add much desired functionality to the distribution. PulseAudio for mixing and network transparent sound, NetworkManager by default, a CodecBuddy to suggest codecs to install, KDE 4, DeltaRPM support for Yum, XULrunner for all gecko applications, and more. …”
Very good article [...]