Galder’s Passionate Blog

If you’re an Ableton Live and iTunes user, you might be encountering some drag and drop issues. In particular, it seems like the latest iTunes 9.2 series does not allow songs to be dragged and dropped into Ableton Live 7 or earlier. Upgrading to Ableton Live 8 or using a small tool called iToones can help to get around this issue. Read on to find out more [...]

Right until Fedora 11, I hadn’t cared much about how Fedora looked. Well, I had made some slight modifications such as using the Murrine GTK engine, but otherwise I had left things as they were. However, the more I used Fedora, the more I was becoming tired/bored of Metacity, the default desktop manager installed by Fedora. I wanted a bit of eye candy :). Read on to find out how I managed to get some eye candy with Fedora 12, nVidia graphic card and Compiz window manager…

Editing Fedora’s (or Gnome’s) main menu to contain all relevant applications is more important these days thanks to applications such as Gnome Do that seems to index apps in the main menu. However, the main menu editor is not installed on Fedora Fedora 12 by default and its name is less than obvious. Read on to figure out its name [...]

This is the first in a series of articles that I’ll be publishing over the next few weeks/months, where I’ll be explaining some of the stuff I learnt today about installing Fedora 12 on my laptop. This particular article follows on where my most viewed blog post, “Installing Fedora 11, 10 or 9 From USB Stick”, left off and provides you with a more simplified set of instructions for installing latest Fedora from a USB stick [...]

Are you a twitter user? Are you frustrated by the lack of quality amongst the native Linux twitter apps? Do you have to manage multiple twitter accounts or you need to keep track on mentions on some specific term?

If you answered yes to all these questions, I’m sure you’ve already come across tweetdeck. However, if running Fedora 11, I’m sure you’ve probably encountered some installation issues, haven’t you? If all this makes any sense to you, then read on! In this post, I explain why tweetdeck is twitter’s best friend, issues I encountered installing it and what I did to get around them. Hope that this post is as useful to you as it was to me :)

A few years ago I was looking to buy an mp3 player and decided to go for an iPod Nano because it allowed to quickly move within long mp3s, such as dance music mixes, and I was planning to pretty much fill up the entire mp3 player with this type of files. Compared to other [...]

Soon after I discovered grep UNIX command a few years ago, I discovered Emacs which included grep like functionality and was able to link up grepped lines with the actual lines in the log. So, if you clicked on a line that satisfied the grepped expression in the lower part of the screen, it would [...]

Man, I’m so excited and I cannot hide it! I’ve finally managed to set up a JBoss Developer Studio environment where I can rebuild my own OpenJDK / IcedTea JDK and test changes to Java classes in rt.jar. With Max’s help, I’m baptising this new JDK as FreeTee. For those impatient, go to the Instructions [...]

Updated on JUL 1, 2009: To install Fedora 11, please follow the instructions given for Fedora 10 below but make sure the bootable partition is slightly bigger because the net install iso on Fedora 11 is bigger than the one in Fedora 10. I gave the bootable partition 512 megs and it worked perfectly.
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I’ve just come back from a holiday in Les Saintes, Guadeloupe where I practiced windsurf (or planche à voile like the french call it) for the first time ever with UCPA and it was absolutely amazing. Windsurf was physically demanding, specially in your arms, but fun and there was an amazing ambient in the UCPA [...]