http://jonebird.com Nesting place for this bird's projects Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:05:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been reading about other people giving the yet to be release version 24 of emacs for some time now. When I decided to upgrade my systems to use v24, I was a bit surprised to not find anything about configuring a Fedora system to use v24 of emacs. Guess ... http://jonebird.com/2011/12/29/installing-emacs-v24-on-fedora/ I listen to a lot of music while at home. I am a Pandora user and have been very happy with my Pandora One subscription now for over two years. The machine used for playing my music is what I call my "media PC". It is called that because this ... http://jonebird.com/2011/12/23/installing-pithos-on-fedora-within-a-virtualenv/ I recently upgraded to Fedora 15 on both the laptop and the home server and I'm still getting used to Gnome 3. Through each frustrating change, I have decided to stick with it and try to learn the new ways to do things but I have been tempted more than ... http://jonebird.com/2011/10/03/customize-gnome-terminal-in-gnome-3/ Early last year I wrote up my procedure on getting Chrome setup with Flash on a 64bit Fedora Core 13 build. It is now dated and I hope people are not still using it. However, if you like the copy & paste style of my direct installation guidelines, I thought ... http://jonebird.com/2011/07/10/64bit-google-chrome-with-flash-on-fedora-take2/ Ever since I rebuilt my laptop I've keep a file called "rebuild.txt" where I detail every little customization I've done. The requirement is that everything that I do has to be completely command line oriented where a block copy-and-paste would redo the same customization. So far I have things ... http://jonebird.com/2011/05/28/custom-dropbox-directory/ Working closely with the operating system, as an engineer or administrator, you often get odd questions about what particular OS settings were used. Often times, the oddest questions come from application owners which don't have a solid handle on their app and are looking for excuses for why their application ... http://jonebird.com/2010/11/15/socket-option-defaults/ I just finished "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert b. Cialdini. I thought it was a very entertaining and educational read. It has a decidedly business / salesman focus in respect to the psychology of sales techniques but I would say the lessons are applicable to other areas of ... http://jonebird.com/2010/11/08/book-review-influence-the-psychology-of-persuasion/ A little play on blog titles going on here. Today I enter a new chapter in my career as I accept the Linux and Unix Architect role at Nationwide. I originally applied for the position back in February and I had hoped to land the position on my birthday in ... http://jonebird.com/2010/05/19/happy-belated-birthday-to-me/ Nice insight into the transformation of Sun under Oracle's helm. They talk about Exadata 2, the appliance which is using their newly acquired sparc hardware. The machine costs more than $1 million, stands over 6 feet tall, is two feet wide and weighs a full ton. It is capable of storing ... http://jonebird.com/2010/05/15/suns-future-under-oracle/ [ UPDATE as of 2011-07-10 This post is no longer advisable. Please see my updated post on setting up 64bit Chrome with Flash player for recent Fedora releases. ] This is a quick howto on getting a 64bit Flash working with your 64bit Google Chrome browser on Fedora. The unfortunate part ... http://jonebird.com/2010/02/24/64bit-google-chrome-with-flash-on-fedora/