Update:  I upgraded one of my machines from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9, and it started using tiny fonts.  Tom Horsley on the Fedora list explained that now the X server is actually using the display resolution (dots per inch) from the monitor’s EDID data to choose default font sizes.  On NX sessions I was [...]

I use Skype for telephony, and Teamspeak for some online games (mostly Ticket to Ride). Until now, I’ve never gotten them to peacefully coexist on my 64-bit Linux system, despite the use of the ALSA OSS emulation library.
Now, with Fedora 7, it finally works, though I’m not sure what changed. I use this [...]

The update to Fedora 7 installed Rhythmbox.  Perhaps it was already installed with Fedora Core 6, but I didn’t use it, and it hadn’t caused me any grief.  But in Fedora 7, Rhythmbox registered itself as the default player for mp3 files.  That would be fine, except that it won’t actually play mp3 files.  It [...]

After making a backup, I upgraded one of my computers to Fedora 7.  The upgrade went smoothly, and I haven’t noticed any problems.   The balloon theme is nicer that then Fedora Core 6 DNA theme..
GutenPrint 5.0 (formerly GimpPrint) has better support for my Epson Stylus R300 inkjet printer.
I’ll probably upgrade my laptop soon, but I [...]

A few people reported problems caused by the “.d” dependency files created by the dependency analysis hack in the Makefile, so I’ve updated lcdtest to use SCons instead of make.  I’ve also now made RPMs for Fedora Core 6 available (both i386 and x86_64), and submitted a review request to try to get them into [...]

Several years ago I tried to get a Linux system to connect to a Cisco VPN concentrator. There is a proprietary Cisco client for Linux, but it uses a closed-source kernel module, and I an not willing to use such things. At the time, it was claimed that Cisco used standard IPsec and [...]

I finally decided to get a cellular data service, Sprint Mobile Broadband (EVDO). Short summary: I’ve only tried using it at my office so far, but the performance is great. I’m getting over 500 Kbps downstream, with round-trip ping times of less than 100 ms. The latency is low enough that [...]

I just tried using FreeNX instead of X port forwarding with SSH. The problem with X port forwarding is that if your SSH connection dies for any reason, you lose your X session. You can use the ’screen’ program inside an xterm (or just in SSH directly) for console-style programs, but that doesn’t [...]

The ssh problem I reported a little while ago was actually a general network performance problem affecting all TCP connections to non-local hosts. Rebooting the server fixed that problem and the Wordpress problem.
I don’t understand what was wrong, nor why rebooting fixed it. I don’t like mysterious problems that go away when you [...]

If I ssh from home or work to my new colo server running Fedora Core 5 (64-bit), the input side of the ssh session is painfully slow. If I type command lines fast, they echo back very slowly, one character at a time. Output, on the other hand, comes back at reasonable [...]