PROBLEM
You get this when trying to SSH to a host from some IP (Let’s assume it’s 111.22.33.44 for the scope of this problem):
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
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PROBLEM
A little tidbit of Windows knowledge. When highlighting a section of a Microsoft Word document and pressing the delete key, nothing happens. No errors or messages at all. Try this to fix it…
SOLUTION
Skype is a popular text, video and voice (VoIP) chat client. A more detailed article can be found on the Wikipedia Skype page. Here is a list of some of the hurdles I’ve ran into getting the client to work on my own distribution.
PROBLEM
Skype for Linux had poor video in the not so distant past so having upgrade to Fedora 12 recently, I’ve decided to see if my setup still worked fine. So the typical problem you might run into is that Skype will simply crash when doing anything with a webcam (When using a command like # /usr/bin/skype & or from your UI menus which defaults to that command anyway). Here’s one way how to resolve this issue that worked for me.
SOLUTION
Fedora 12 has been out of the oven since about Nov 17 so it’s high time I upgrade before it spoils. As with the previous release, I look forward to any new features in KDE 4.3. (As you recall from the previous upgrades, KDE was introduced rewritten almost entirely in Qt4). Also noteworthy to mention is the issues in ATI graphics that popped up after upgrading. Hopefully the community has had time to catch up as at the time support for my old Radeon 9600 was dropped and after some searches at the time not even ATI was maintaining support for Linux drivers for the family of chipsets of the cards. Unfortunately, there was even some division around how cards like Radeon are supported from Linus himself. (As far as I’m concerned David can do what he wants just like Linus did ).
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Following a recent upgrade, Xorg was apparently also updated to version xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1.901-1.fc11.i586 which unfortunately didn’t play nicely with version xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-14.fc11.i586 . After a brief investigation, the combination resulted in this error:
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so: undefined symbol: DRIOpenDRMMaster
Ultimately, this had the following effect:
Not good. The system was frozen and unresponsive and nothing I tried on the terminal did anything. Here’s how to go a about solving this issue.
Here we’ll go over how to connect, configure and format a SATA I / II hard drive on Linux. The intent for this drive ultimately was to share the drive through SAMBA between our home PC’s and to hold home movies from the Sony HDR-SR7 camcorder I have. Ultimately, I will be using this drive and ffmpeg to convert movies from M2TS format to AVI format using the x264 codec available on Linux. I’ll need the space.
Here’s how to go about doing just this:
There are plenty of ways to share resources and files between two or more computers. You could do things like:
Or you could enable NFS or better yet, as we will discuss here, use SAMBA and share entire folders, allowing you to simply save to a shared folder making the file / folder visible from other PC’s on your network.
We will therefore do two things over the network in this post using SAMBA:
This of course will be different then simply mounting partitions on the same machine as we have outlined in Windows / Linux: Mutually accessing various filesystems on the same PC. since will be doing this type of sharing over the network instead of just on the same PC. In this post we will share folders between Fedora Linux and Windows, though the general config of the applications can apply to other distributions. Here’s how to get this done:
Well, Fedora 11 has been out for some time now. And though I’ve been coping with the new KDE 4.0 deployment, my general experience has left me somewhat unsatisfied, though sure enough, there are good points about it. Somehow I don’t feel alone but can’t help stick with it. After all, KDE 4.0 is a COMPLETE rewrite of KDE in Qt4 and this sort of stuff is to be expected.
With new things comes new apps like KDE 4.3 which I’ve been itching to get my hands on. So with time permitting, I can get to do some updates in hope of getting lot’s of the old functionality back in KDE or simply adapting to my new environment.
Without further delay it’s time to do some updates:
This is a fine one. Anyone who uses WordPress may need to deal with this. Unfortunately, despite using reCAPTCHA, Akismet still picks up tons of span on my blog. So why am I getting spam comments when I have reCAPTCHA? The answer could surprise you. Read the rest of this entry »
PROBLEM
Another day brings another bug. This time it’s with the Akonadi server failing or unable to start. This error followed a recent update I’ve done on my Fedora box. This is what greeted me each time I started up KDE:
The QtSQL driver ‘QMYSQL’ is required by your current Akonadi server configuration.
The following drivers are installed: QSQLITE, QMYSQL3, QMYSQL.
Make sure the required driver is installed.
Personally, I don’t like uninvited guests, especially the ones that crash the party. So off I went to see what broke. The error gave some clues where I should look which included MySQL, akonadi and QtSQL. Here’s how I went about resolving this one.
SOLUTION
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