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Qeirstyn Waking Up Grandma [Photo Album]

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Goofing Around at the House [Photo Album]

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10 Most Popular Posts 2008

At the conclusion of any year, there seems to be a tradition among bloggers to round up the most popular posts of the year. Here is my way of keeping this alive. Here are the top 10 most popular posts of 2008:

How To Fix The No Sound Issue in Firefox Views: 13,877

How To: Properly Backup a VirtualBox Machine Views: 6,223

How To: Install VirtualBox on Fedora 10 Views: 3,533

How To: Install VirtualBox on Fedora 8 Views: 2,588

How To Enable Graphical Boot with Plymouth Views: 2,080

How To: Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 8.0 Views: 1,286

LaTeX Resume Examples Views: 830

How to Install/Upgrade Banshee 1.4 in Ubuntu Views: 697

Tutorial: Setup a Totally Free, Self-Hosted phpbb Forum Views: 614

SPSS Alternative for Linux [Ubuntu Tutorial] Views: 596

THIS YEAR BLOG STATS:
Total views: 44,095
Busiest day: 699 — Tuesday, December 2, 2008

See you next year!

Bypassing Rubber Command in Gedit LaTeX Plugin [Tip]

This tip is for those, like me, who are having troubles getting the Gedit LaTex Plugin to function properly with Rubber.  The original problem is that an error will occur if you use whitespaces in your file names and folders.  It’s a known bug and is documented in the FAQ of the Gedit LaTeXPlugin homepage.  There is a patch for this, and if you havn’t tried to apply it yet, you should try.  If you’d rather not waste your time and/or the patch isn’t doing it for you (like in my case with Fedora 10), then you can completely bypass the command that causes the error in the first place.  So, here’s how (with a screenshot for reference):

1. Open Gedit (Applications -> Accessories -> Text Editor).
2. Open the Plugins Window (Edit -> Preferences -> “Plugins” Tab).
3. Scroll down to the “LaTeX Plugin”, select it, and then click on “Configure”.
4. Click on the “Build Profiles” tab, select the “PDF” item, and then click the “Edit” button.
5. Under “Jobs” type in the following command (with two “-” before “interaction”) and then click the “Add” button when finished (I wouldn’t recommend a copy/paste because of how wordpress redoes text):
   • pdflatex –interaction=nonstopmode “%f”
6. Use the “Delete” button to delete the rubber -f -s –inplace -d “%f” command.  (You can chose to keep this as long as it is on the bottom of the list and you don’t mind your document being processed twice).
7. Enjoy!

Tags: error, fedora, fix, gedit, how to, latex, Linux, pdflatex, plugin, problem, rubber, tutorial, whitespaces

How To Enable Graphical Boot with Plymouth [Fedora Tip]

Thanks to this guide by axel, I was able to get rid of the simple blue/light blue/white bar loader and get the fancy graphical loader better known as Plymouth. Keep in mind that I am using it on a laptop that has Intel 945GM graphics.

I’m going to keep things basic without a lot of jargon. If you’d like more details on this, visit this page.

Type the following into the terminal to configure grub:

su -
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf

Then, within the grub.conf file, add the bold text below (this value will also depend upon which screen resolution you’d like. To get this value, visit this page):

title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=a61c8338-e373-4389-ae00-32942185f7c2 rhgb quiet vga=792
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img

If you’d like to add more themes, you’ll need to first download and install them and then set them as default. To do this, type the following into the terminal, replacing what’s within the {} with the loader of your choice):

su -
yum install plymouth-plugin-{fade-in,pulser,spinfinity}

Then, set your theme as default:

su -
plymouth-set-default-plugin pluginname
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

Source: http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/125/26/1/12/#plymouth

Tags: boot, fedora, graphic, Intel, plymouth, solar, theme