Last evening Alexander my 2 years old kid and I was home alone while his mother was visiting a friend. Best as we was playing on the floor with sopebobbels and Lego, a very bright lightning broke the dark Sky in 2, lucky I was the only one to see it, but short after a very long and intense bang rolled over the house, it took almost 30 sec. to finish. Just before the bang Alexander went silent, so he heard the full roll. At first I didn’t really know what to expect, but he crawled on to my lap and was waiting for me to explain what just happened, he being 2 years old understand most of what we say, but don’t speak that much him self yet. I tried to explain that it wasn’t dangerous but beautiful, and the only place it could be dangerous was in an open field, on the water and in the air, like in a trees and so. Lucky or unlucky some may say, it only happened once that evening, but the fear had already hit the kid, not the cry and comforted one, but one of those there last, and you as a parent feel as deeply as the kid it self. The rest of that evening, Alexander said BOOMM a million times, and a thing that normally never happens, was that he wanted to huge and keep a tight grip around my neck every time he had the chance. I read him a bedtime storey, about Curios George, and the man with the yellow hat, and then sang a song, ensuring him that nothing was dangerous and that I would be at the other side of his door. He took his polar bear and went almost instantly to sleep, and slept to the entire night, without a sound.

I went to bed to and slept until morning. When I woke him up, as I normally do, the first thing there came out of his mouth was “BOOOM outside” and the hugging went on. When I drooped him of at his daycare, he ran to her door yelling BOOMEE… I told the daycare-taker all about last nights experiences, and she and I talked about a vacation she had been on in Italy some years ago where the weather had smashed there caravan, and as we talked Alexander was on her arm, but clinging to her neck, as he didn’t like what he heard.

This is a little scary as I never have been afraid of thunder, and always admired the phenomena, but I guess that we just needs to keep talking about it to make Alexander at ease with it. A more ignoring thing is that here in Denmark it almost never happens, so until next time we just have to keep visualising though talk what it was. It would have been much easier just to take a walk in it next time so he, maybe would find the beauty in it too.

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I just thought I would drop a line about what I’m doing and what is going on in my life the last copula of weeks.

I have become a part of the sad truth of statistic, and join the boat of stresses system administrator, there sail on the blue planet called Earth, in my little but free kayak named liberty by the GNU/World. As I never have been hiding lately, I have been working with the same company for 13 years now, and for many in the dream position of Internal system administrator, and have been able to shape my work as I like as long as I would fight the proprietary  evil politic there always walk among the cubes of an enterprise. But my work is not alone the cause of my overworked brain, as my Psychologist explained to me on Wednesday doing my first visit ever to that kind of brain doctor . All humans brains have 36% of hotspare CPU’s and disks, there takeover if you burnout an area of your brain do to e.g. hard concentration, or to much work, or even a hard time do to family   issues etc. In my case I have found that I have a built-in drug there releases after a successful e.g. job, server configuration  or proven liberty point, there have been holding me “flying” over the last half year. Not to say that I have used all of the drug, after all my brain are able to produce it by it self, but my over self medicated brain was starting to burn all it’s hotspares out, and as I was told when that happens you get permanent brain-damages, and plausibly end up in a conical  depression, there would drive me insane. I have now been ordered to take 5 weeks of total relaxation, and forget all about work, and do what I like the most, which is similar to my work, just without a “Private Government of Evil”  to battle all the time, in hops of that I will be able to return to the front-line of the freedom battle after it.

So for all you freedom lovers like me out there reading this, first THANKS FOR READING, and then please don’t let you fool by a over medicated brain, it is so hard to make you self understand there is a problem, but please try, for your own sanity and possibly family sake..

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How I define My GNU/Linux Desktop

Posted: 18th December 2011 by Dennis Appelon in Fedora, OpenSource

Hi all, and Merry Christmas.

On my way home from my siblings 25 years birthday party, in the Herning area Denmark, I started thinking while I whas catching up on my podcast first  TuxRadar and then on my way home in the dark, RatholeRadio how I look and see the desktop I’m using, and as you properly know, I’m a Fedora boy. I have been using Fedora on my Desktop sense Fedora 12, and I have always been using Red Hat all the way back to Red Hat 7.1 (Seawolf) which was the distribution I did my apprenticeship exam back in 2001 on. oh those days of ipchains :-)

But for me I look at my Desktop as being GNU/Linux, not Fedora, not Arch or any other distribution of GNU/Linux. I see it this way because, independent of what distribution I use, I modifies it to my own likings, first in Fedora 12 where I really loved the Compiz fusion stuff, but now a days Gnome-Shell do the trick for me. Not that I don’t miss the good old Compiz days, but Gnome-Shell is a nice Windows manager, the only thing I see on the downside is the missing enhanced zoom function, and also the build-in screen-shot function I had with Compiz Fusion, but I survive and have found alternatives to this tools, not as good, but they do.

Now that is a user interface thing, but okay… I know there are differences beneath the UI, stuff like packet management systems is also an important  thing for me… Here I really like the RPM system, specially with yum on top of it. I love the way I can install software, and then rip it off again, if I don’t like it, without thinking of what other software there might need it. specially with the RPMFusion nVidia drivers I find this extreme useful I also love the fact that everybody can make a repo with there exact favourite piece of software like e.g. Gimp unstable and Darktable nightly builds.

Then there is all the community stuff, and again I find the whole Fedora community to be the most fantastic bunch of hard working people there really fell with what they pack and develop to be number one. I know that Fedora often have to listen to rambling about being to upstream, but what the heck, that is what I like the most. I’m a huge user of the test repo’s and the rawhide stuff, and I love sending karma to new packets and updates, if they work. I do hop that there will be a breakthrough in the unsuspended from hibernation and ordinary suspend state for kernel’s 3.1.5.1, 3.1.5.2 and latest kernel-3.1.5.6. check the bug out here if you like. But then again, is this not what OpenSource in general is all about, I mean you could just swing by irc.freenode.net in any #Fedora channel’s on an ordinary evening, and see the activity level in there. There is nothing more pleasing for a Freedom lover like my self to see someone succeed with some configuration, or installation they never thought never would be possible for them to figure out without a little help from a friend on IRC.

Here in December and at the end of year 2011 I only can think about one thing, and that is what will happen in 2012 with Fedora, what cool new super upstream stuff will I get to know and use…

Feel free to drop me a comment here but also on Google+ where I hangout all day…

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Btrfs Fedora 16 de-duplication

Posted: 4th November 2011 by Dennis Appelon in Fedora

I have been using btrfs for my /home sense Fedora 15 was in RC1, and I always though that it was doing de-duplication on all files for me, but I recently learend that it is not, how disappointing… I then started to look in to what options I have with btrfs, and I learned from #btrfs on irc.freenode.net that I accurately can copy files so they de-duplicate. I made this little silent video, to give a live demo of de-duplication.

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I found my RGB colours again

Posted: 6th October 2011 by Dennis Appelon in Fedora
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I always believed that my beloved Monitor of choice a Lenovo L220xw 22″ is the most nice and clear monitor I ever have worked with, with it’s max resolution of 1920×1200 I have just loved every time I tuned it on, that is why I have one at work and at home.

I started to play around with RAW photos, lately and that open up my eyes to a whole new world of colours, and something called colour profiles. Also I found my self using the lovely program called Darktable, there is what evil Adobe Lightroom is to Mac and Windows users to us freedom loving GNU/Linux users. A program to develop RAW pictures, and make them look damm good.

I soon realized that that I had to be sure that I saw the right colours on my monitor, as I would see on the printed versions. Okay me being a new comer to all this RAW stuff, I went for Lenovo’s homepage and downloaded the ICC file they had provided for my kind of monitor. An ICC file is loaded though the “GNOME Color Manager” program, and sets the colour profiles for a device, like a monitor, scanner and printer.

By chance, the conversation at work next day turned to the topic of monitor calibration, and I learned that we accurately had a “photo club” at work :-) . They have recently purchased a monitor calibration device called a “Spider 3 Elite” a little colour measuring cam device to put on you screen and read the colours and feed them back to the system, for validation. I borrowed the “Spider 3 Elite” device and wanted to see what would happen if I hooked it up to my Laptop running Fedora 15 x86_64 and man did I get surprised, I had never seen such a crash before. The system detected the device and wanted to launch  the gnome-control-center, doing so it went in to a loop of crashing, and the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) went crazy. (see my bug rapport here). after recovering I went to try the same from XFce, this time the system didn’t crashed, but again nothing happened either. I started Googling around to find an answer to what have gone wrong, and if there even existed any success stories of screen calibration from GNU/Linux (GNOME). I found a bug rapport from 2011-07-07 with a person there have had the same experiences as me, also that was the bug that my ABRT had hit on submitting my bug.

I realized that if I wanted to calibrate my monitors I had to use a Fedora 14. I then went to find a Fedora 14 LiveCD in this times of Fedora 15 and 16, that is not the easiest thing to do, not if you like me tuners to the official sides like www.fedoraproject.org All I could find there was F15 and F16 Alpha stuff… (Come one a legacy download section would be nice here people) I then went goggling and found that I could download it from DK placed FTP mirror there had all the old versions of Fedora.

Also by Googling around did I find that I would need some application called ArgyllCMS and a GUI called dispcalGUI. ArgyllCMS was in the fedora repos, so that was a easy one, but the GUI was not, so I uploaded all my links to my Google docs, so I could access them from my LiveCD. I then booted my Fedora 14 LiveCD, and installed the 2 programs, and then again connected the “Spider 3 Elite” device, crossing my fingers that it would work this time… and it did. The dispcalGUI program detected a “Spider 3″ and I could try to do a calibration. I first measured the Ambient light in my office from the Spider 3 device and then I adjusted my brightness and contrast by 2 numbers feed back to me though a terminal, one indicating the light my OS was sending to my monitor and another number telling me what the device measured. It was then my task to adjust brightness and contrast on my LCD to match up. Next up was the calibration it self. After 30 minutes. it had completed a series of colour changing in a 4 squared where I have placed the Spider 3 device, and it generated a CAL file and a ICC file, and also activated it, I could admittedly see a very big change in how my monitor showed colours.

It was almost to much, and I worried that the calibration had failed or given off some wrong readings. do to the drastic change. Now how would I be sure that this was the right configuration?….

With the “Spider 3 Elite” device I borrowed from work I also got a printed picture, from a company called X-Print, they are a specialised printing company, there even have a LAMBDA printer, not that I know what that is, but from what I could understand it is THE ACE of printing colours.  The idea of this photo was to go to there homepage and find the same picture, and then by holding the printed photo up to the side of your monitor, you visually could see the diversity between them. I did accentually try this before I started the calibration, and the colours was not that fare of I would say, but now after my calibration I really could see the colour simulative was BANG on.The picture looks like this:

Now not that worried any more my calibration was a disaster, I only have to get use to see the real colours of my Gnome 3 desktop, and man this is like getting a whole new theme install only that I haven’t, but now I see depths in my picture with shadows and the real colour of my applications and looking at some of the Fedora wallpapers is now just a art exhibition.

For all you eyecandy lovers, I can highly recommend trying to take a look at your monitors colours, and maybe just for a start try to get your hands on the ICC colour profile made from your monitors vendor. if not I don’t know if you could pack your monitor and take it in to the city to a photo business, and ask if you could get your screen calibrated.

Thanks for reading my blog, I hop it helps you,,,

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Something called GPT (Guid Partition Table)

Posted: 28th August 2011 by Dennis Appelon in Fedora
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I have been trying to install Fedoa 16 Alpha RC5 on my test laptop, a Lenovo T61p. I normal don’t waste a DVD for Beta and Alpha releases, so I use a USB stick with 16GB of space. My first try was a Alpha TC1 and I was hitting the same problem all the time. When I had entered my hostname, it crashed with a nasty bug, leaving me with no way to rapport it, and no way to bypass it. I then gave it a rest for about 3 weeks, and then went ahead at it again today (28-08-2011) But today I first tried the RC5 DVD (From my USB), just to get the same bug again, next I went for a Live CD, and some IRC #Fedora-qa, and I started to tune in to what was causing the problem. Something called GPT (Guid Partition Table) was the problem. Not knowing what it was I went with google, and founded something called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Now I had 2 things I didn’t know what was, and a Laptop I wanted to put Fedora 16 on and start debugging.

Finally I found a blog, taking the Fedora 16 installation step by step, and there I found that if I made the first partition /dev/sda1 to 1MB and labeled it “BIOS BOOT” and then next make a /dev/sdb2 to 500MB /boot The installation moved on. What is all this about ? what is wrong with the good old MBR ?

Now with a working Fedora 16 Alpha RC5 x86_64 installation on my Lenovo T61p laptop  I first discovered the lovely wallpaper in Gnome-shell, and I have to say I loved ever inch of it, nice work Designer team ;-)

Now using my Lenovo T61P laptop I have a freedom hating daemon called Nvidia Quadro FX850m  I really like to preform over the top, and knowing that it was a long shot to install kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion nonefree repository , what the heck… it is a testing laptop, but it didn’t work, akmod could not compile, and I had to use yum erase kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidai, but at least I still are able to run the gnome-shell on what Fedora 16 comes with.

From what I just noted doing boot, F16 comes with a lot less strange errors then my F15 do, but that is also on my relative new Lenovo W510 laptop. Also the boot speed was remarkably faster. but maybe my tons of different  wallpapers I load to switch between is the problem there :-)

I can only recommend everyone to try out the F16 Alpha RC5 if you can get pass the anaconda installer ;-) hop that  will be fixed in the next releases.

Now I will dive in to some bugzapping in Fedora 16 if I are able to find any ;-)

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Podcatching is a big part of my electronic life

Posted: 22nd August 2011 by Dennis Appelon in OpenSource, passion

I love the sound of a podcast in my ears in the morning. So what podcast do I listen to.

I have to say my all time favor is the Linuxoutlaws, I have never felt so close to a user community, and got to know that many from just tuning my ears in to a show there records once a week. A big shout out to Dan and Fab’s for keeping up the good work…

Next is This Week in Google, from the twit.tv network, Leo and Co. is a fantastic place to get an update on the tech world, even that it is a show about Google, they cover most of what happens in a Tech Geek computer loving person’s life

Then it is All About Android from twit.tv, again. It is a new show on there 21st episode, but it went way op my list the first time I listen to it

Then it is The Dick Turpin Roadshow, also a very new show out there, done by Matt (yMatt) and Peter (Dickturpin) This is a cool cast, to confirm the easy freedom of speech, there comes with the global Internet.

Next up is the TuxRadar Linux Podcast That podcast is running on season 3 now, and I still really like it, it do tend to be a little short, but there topics are always bang on.

Then there is Dan’s Ratholeradio, not a Linux podcast, but I like the relaxing sound of what he finds every week, also Dan is fantastic on a guitar.

Meet The Gimp is my only Video podcast. It is all about cool stuff you can do with your digital pictures, from making them look very nice just by fine tuning a little. to making smooth GIF animations.

Then there is the BBC stuff, where I listen to Discovery ,Documentary and the Since one. I do sadly skip some of them sometime

There is also Dr. Kikki’s Science Hour again from the twit.tv network, I tend to use it when I need to relax my head from Linux stuff

For my podcatching I use DoggCatcher on my Nexus S

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Hello I’m AppelonD and now a Fedora BugZapper

Posted: 8th August 2011 by Dennis Appelon in Fedora, OpenSource
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I finally decided to apply for a group in the Fedora ecosystem, on there would help out Fedora. After a long night of searching I found the BugZapper and the Proven testers to fit me just perfect. I then applied for the BugZappers, and got accepted.

Next step for me was to find a component I would do useful with, and from the long list I went with the Anaconda group/component. The following evening I dropped by the FedoraBugzapper channel on Freenode, where I introduced my self once more, and got started on triangulating bugs. I think I had a little Goofy getting started, I guess I was a little scared of closing some old bugs there still had value, so starting from the bottom and up, I poked around some of the oldest bugs, and by the help of fenris02 on IRC I learn about bodhi and asked for some comments updates about relevance still applied with latest release and upstreem versions of Fedora.

Today I then closed my first bug, after confirming it worked with latest Fedora release. 1 down 176 to go :-)

I still have some Learning to do when it comes to different states I can put bugs in to, but I guess I’ll grow with the challenges…

I Just wanted to give a shout out about my little side project. My new OpenSource homepage, which I’m making all the way from scratch using OpenSource tools like Inkscape, Gimp and Eclipse to generate my HTML5 CSS3 site on top of Joomla The code can be found on Github if you want to play around  with it, I do have plans to make some serious CSS3 animation, feel free to comment on what you like and what you would think looked better e.g. colour for navigation menu etc.  If you like, I have entered my introduction mail to the Fedora test mailing list under the “Read more tag”

Appelon in Chinese

This I "Appelon" my middle name in Chinese, if anybody who speak Chinese, would help me add a capital D to the end of it I would be very pleased...

BTW. I know this is called my Danish blog, but I guess it will change to my Danish/English blog in the further 
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At blive voksen på rulleskøjter

Posted: 17th July 2011 by Dennis Appelon in passion, Skating
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Ja jeg holder af rulleskøjter, jeg har kørt siden jeg var 5 år, men havde desværre en længer pause, fra de første tenages år og frem til mine tyver.

Idag eller det vil sige indtil for 2 år siden, hvor jeg endelig fik mig et par rulleskøjter af min dejlige kone i julegave, har jeg så småt genoptaget fornøjelsen. Problemed er bare at jeg er blevet voksen i mellemtiden, og dermed også begyndt at tænke fremad, hvilket er meget uheldig når man inderst  inde ved man står godt på rulleskøjter, men ens indre “fetmule” konstant advare og prøve og få en til at bremse. Mystisk nok er det et kapitel af min barndom med rulleskøjter erfaringer fuldstændig forsvundet, hvem ved måske endda aldrig eksisterede. Jeg ved i alt fald så meget, at i går forsøgte jeg mig med håndled til kampesten metoden (uden håndledebeskytter) en metode jeg bestemt ikke kan anbefale nogle på 30år og opefter :-) … Lad mig slå det fast med det samme ens knogler bliver ikke strækker med tiden, og slet ikke af at flytte på en mus hele dagen…

Så nu har jeg besluttede mig for at tilskrive et nyt kapitel til min rulleskøjte karriere, som voksen, der heder: Hvordan du bremser på side-by-side rulleskøjter. Dette kapitel skal indeholde 5 metoder beskreven i detaljer og på dansk, hvilke “optioner/muligheder” man har og vælge imellem, når man befinder sig i fuld fart midt på en bakke i nedadgående retning, mens man forsøger at styre imellem 2 meget store kampesten der er lagt på cykelstien for at holde biler ude…

Først skal jeg lige lukke lidt galle ud… jeg har nu i 2 dage forsøgt at finde 1 eller 2 forholdsvis nye videoer, på youtube og med google, som ville vise mig hvordan man bør gøre i en “nød situation” på rulleskøjter når man har brug for at stoppe lige nu!, og ikke om 10 meter. Lad mig bare sige at der har ikke været nogen større succes. Det vildeset jeg har fundet er middelaldrende amerikaner kvinder, med lyserøde rulleskøjter der meget pædagogisk korrekt demonstrer 3 bremsemetoder i lav fart… Ikke at jeg har noget imod lyserøde rulleskøjter eller nogen anden del af den før nævnte beskrivelse, men jeg ville bare gerne se en demo af f.eks. en på vej ned af San Francisco’s stejleset bakke, og pludselig ville i hold på side-by-side rulleskøjter (quard skates)… “Come on people of the Internet, start filming your self on skates braking….!

1st metode kalder jeg T-stop:

T-stop er en spændende måde at bremse på, men kan hurtig blive dyrt med en stk. pris på 50 DKK. pr. hjul der skal erstattes, indtil man lære den rigtig. Problemet er at man har det med at kun benytte 1 hjul som bremseklods, og ikke alle 4 hjuls flade som bremse.

Sæt din førende fod bagved din ikke førende fod, og klem den helt op mod støvlen, så det danner et T. Det er vigtig du presser hele den førende fod med ALLE 4 hjul mod jorden, og ikke kun ét hjul, da hvis du kun benytter 1 hjul, vil den forsvinde på sekunder og gå fra at være rund til flad og firkantede, ikke lige den optimale form for hjul. Jo hård du klemmer alle 4 hjul mod jorden, jo kraftigere bremser du. Prøv dig frem i lav fart før du forsøger dig med 30 km/h.

2nd metode kalder jeg front bremsen:

Front bremsen er spændende, men ikke optimal, til at bringe dig i hold, men den funger fint til at tage farten af…

Tip din førende fod, så du kan slæbe på din front bremseklods, være opmærksom på de første par gange bider bremseklodsen voldsommer end når man har gjort det et par gange. Du vil opleve din fod hopper over vejen, hvis du presser for hårdt. Hvis din fod hopper, er det fordi du slæber for hårdt. Justere til den glider glat hen over vejen.

3rd metode kalder jeg bagbremsen:

På mine Suprem Turbo 33 Alu. har jeg en bremseklods som man kender det fra indliner skøjter, en klods man kan tippe sin førende fod bagover, og bremse. Igen dette er ikke metoden der bringer dig i hold, men i stedet tager farten af.

Tip din førende fod bagover og forsigtig klem bremseklodsen mod jorden, bemærk du vil automatisk begynde at dreje mod den side du bremser med, det kræver lidt øvelse at kompensere, men ikke umuligt. Lad være med at tænke på at spare på bremseklodsen, de holder længer end man regner med. de koster ca. 45 DKK pr stk.

4th metode kalder jeg tomahavk stop:

Tomahavk stop er meget svær, da den virklig kræver du lukker munden på din indre “Fedtmule” Men hvis du først lære den, er det metoden der kan få dit i hold, på sekunder, og dermed også metoden til at panik bremse.

Tomahavk kræver du vender ryggen til din køreretning i fuld fart, og dermed hammer begge front bremseklodser i jorden, mens du bøjer kraftig i knæende, for at kompensere for sir Isaac Newtons tredje lov der siger, at aktion er lig med reaktion.

Begynd med at dreje på din førende fod væk fra den ikke førende fod, dette vil resultere i du begynder at dreje kraftig, og til sidst har næsen i modsat retning og køre baglæns, smæk herefter begge frontbremser i jorden, og balancere ved at bøje kraftig i knæende mens du læner din vægt fremover. Denne bremseteknik kræver øvelse, og er meget svær at lære, men det er også den eneste som kan bruges til at bremse til stop. Husk at hvis du kommer med f.eks. 20 km/t vil den modstand du mærker i skøjterne svar til at stoppe en genstand med samme vægt og fart som dig i et frontal sammenstød.

5th metode kalder græshopperen:

Græshopperen er den eneste stop teknik jeg kan huske fra da jeg var dreng. For enden af vores stejle vej var der et stort grøn område med græs, som den eneste redning fra slemme hudafskrabninger og blodige hænder.

Brug det græs du har til rådighed i en panik situation. Græs er fantastisk som bremse, og kan endda rede dig fra en slem hudafskrabning hvis dit bremseforsøg kikser. Det ser dog knap så elegant ud, og det er heller ikke særlig godt til kuglelejerne, men hvad i en situation hvor du har valget mellem en kørende bil som bremse eller en tot græs…

 

Fælles for alle bremsetekniker er de kræver lidt af selvtilliden, nogle mere end andre, men vigtigst af  alt DON’T PANIC!!!!! hold hoved kold og brug hvad du har af muligheder, så som f.eks. græs.

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Fedora 15

Posted: 2nd June 2011 by Dennis Appelon in Fedora, OpenSource
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Fedora 15 med gnome 3 har nu været på min prima bærbar siden Thu Apr 21 09:28:28 2011 (sudo dumpe2fs /dev/sda1 |grep created)

Jeg er helt vild med gnome-shell dog savner jeg virkelig Compiz’s Enhanced Zoom, men for tiden bruger jeg den indbyggede zoom funktion.

Jeg har svært ved at finde noget negativ om F15, men jeg ser stadig nogle problemer med at sætte min maskine i standby, dog ikke hele tiden, men nu og da, låser den med en blinkende causer og blæseren på max. Den eneste vej ud er den store afbryder… øv øv. I det hele taget syntes jeg at system D køre langsom når jeg starter min W510 og jeg syntes der er en verden til forskel i opstart hastighed fra min F13 til denne F15. Jeg har dog ikke kiggede nærmer på det, måske ligger der en åbenlys forklaring på hvad jeg oplever…

Jeg kan virkelig godt lide den idé med at have et workspace til være applikation. Syntes også de vertikal workspaces giver et et beder flow end compiz’s. Speciel den option med at tabbe imellem applikationer som var det ét workspace er meget handy.

På alle måder giver gnome 3 et mere koncentreret arbejdes miljø en jeg tidligere har kendt fra Gnome 2.x (Compiz).

Der er stadig småting som virker lidt riterende, som jeg ved der er fundet en løsning på, men som først kommer i gnome 3.2. Her tænker jeg på problemet med gennemsigtige vinduer. Jeg oplever det prima med gnome-terminal (hvor jeg lever meget af min tid :-) ) at hvis man vælger at gøre den gennemsigtig, virker det kun i fuld skærm. Har hørt det er noget med den skyggen som “skaber” sig.

Jeg køre en Fedora 15 x86_64 på min W510 i7 med 12GB RAM og LED skærm, og har faktisk fundet det meste til at virker, dog har jeg haft en del problemer med det indbyggede 3G modem, som er produceret af Qualcomm som åbenbart ikke har set lyset i at lave opensource driver (De sataner) heldigvis er det jo Linux, så der findes altid en måde, og har fundet frem til den manglende firmware som jeg nu kan loade med en kommando, hvorefter NetworkManager op snapper den og giver mig adgang til mit telenor SIM kort med mit data abonnement og den indbyggede antenne. NICE….

Tak til hele Fedora holdet…

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