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Running Lotus Notes 8 on Linux with newer xulrunner

By carson | Published: March 2, 2009
I recently got tired of running Lotus Notes under wine because I kept getting meeting invites that I couldn't accept. So I ventured out because I had heard that Notes now had a Linux client and sure enough it does. The install is huge but it went very smooth up until the point that I [...]
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VNC on OS X + Devil's Pie = seamless desktop

By carson | Published: February 9, 2009
I've been doing iPhone development lately using a mac mini. When we first started looking at developing for the iPhone it seemed like overkill to go out and buy multiple macbooks or one macbook to share between developers so instead we got a mac mini to share using Vine VNC. For reference we are able [...]
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How to transfer a Linux image from VirtualBox to Xen

By carson | Published: January 4, 2009
There have been times recently when I wanted to pull a VirtualBox Linux instance I had into Xen. I kept thinking it had to be fairly easy but I kept putting off trying it until recently when I ran into something I wanted to install from a CD image into an Amazon EC2 AMI. It [...]
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Upgrading from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 with yum

By carson | Published: November 25, 2008
Fedora 10 is out and once again it is time to upgrade. The upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 is almost exactly like the upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. Here are the steps you need to do the upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10.
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PowerDNS Makes Custom DNS Backends Easy

By carson | Published: September 14, 2008
I ran into PowerDNS recently when I needed to find a DNS server that would allow me to produce custom responses to domain queries. I needed to have a request for a DNS entry return a different IP depending on some factors in a database and I needed that data to always be accurate (not [...]
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Upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 with yum

By carson | Published: May 13, 2008
A new release of Fedora is out again so it is time to check out the upgrade. This time it is the Fedora 9 release. The upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 is almost exactly like the upgrade to Fedora 8. Here are the steps you need to do the upgrade from Fedora 8 [...]
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Upgrading from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 with yum

By carson | Published: November 8, 2007
Fedora 8 has been released so it is time to upgrade once again. First you should go back and upgrade to Fedora 7 if you haven't already. From there it is even easier this time to upgrade. Here are the steps you need to do the upgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8: yum update yum clean [...]
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Upgrading from FC6 to Fedora 7 with yum

By carson | Published: June 2, 2007
Now that Fedora 7 has been release it is time to upgrade from that crusty old Fedora Core 6. Note that they have removed the "Core" from the name so a few things have changed with the paths used in yum. Last year I did a post on how to upgrade from FC5 to FC6 [...]
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Acrobat Reader 7 and FC6

By carson | Published: February 14, 2007
I broke down and wanted to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 on my FC6 box to replace xpdf. After installing it from the tar.gz version the acroread startup script bombed out with the error: expr substr 2400000000000 1 After a little searching I didn't find much help so I started looking at the script myself to [...]
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How to create and use Flash video metadata to add cue-points with flvtool2

By carson | Published: December 8, 2006
Adding cue-points allows you to spice up your flash videos created with FFMpeg. Adding metadata to a FLV will allow you to introduce cue-points that have their own metadata that can be display when the cue-point is reached or let you jump to that cue-point. In the following tutorial you will learn how to add [...]
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