Galder’s Passionate Blog

Back In Time is the name of linux tool that tries to mimic what Time Machine does for Mac. It periodically makes backups of your entire hard drive based on a set of rules such as periodicity, files to backup…etc. Although I’m still using script based backups, I welcome the creation of such tools that make it easier for average Fedora/Ubuntu/etc users to do full backups. However, Back In Time does not backup hidden files/folders by default which could cause some grief to the average linux user. 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 :)

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 [...]