I was looking for a new keyboard on Cybermonday, and there I found this beast. It’s a little expensive, but I got a good discount. I sens found that the create of this only provided *.deb paketces, and I was a little offended, nerver or less I went ahead to provide an RPM for Fedora 27 – 29, this would be my first RPM, so it was a little exciting, and very pleasing when I had a working RPM. Please find my repo here: 

$ sudo dnf copr enable appelond/das-keyboard
$ sudo dnf install das-keyboard-q.x86_64

I have asked the OPS over at https://qforum.daskeyboard.com to make my RPM available in there download section, hope they will do so, I would be so proud.

If you are interested in seeing what this Das Keyboard is all about, please watch this video.

2 Co-founder Marc Ewing wore his grandfathers red Cornell lacrosse hat in college and became known for his tech expertise – those with problems went to see the guy in the red hat.

3 Ewing named his software project Red Hat 1 Red Hat 2 and so on. “So when he started his Linux project, he just named it Red Hat Linux “Young Said. All righty then”

I have been playing around with all kind of new stuff, all from GNU/Linux related things to the studding of the Qabalah and reading the Tarot. I even have use them all together, to enlighten me on hard subjects and what to do.

To know who you really are and to be able to use it is the only tool you need for make miracles, and get you over all energy going.

But how do you find a big tool like that, it is not all physical it is not all mental it is not given to you and you need to look to find it. You might not find it all at once, but a knife is not sharp before it is sanded the first time.

I haven’t found it all and I’m not sure I’ll before I take my last breath, and move in to spirit and even then it’s all a process of learning, to find the materials and form them as you go. You might even need to adjust what you already made, but all is for a purpose of what you need.

I want to thank all my followers on Google+ and all the wounder full persons around me for reading and commenting and  having an opinion about what they read. after all that is the true engine of friendship, it is to have something  together to like, talk discuss and be passion about.

Also a thanks to all my frinds on Facebook…

Thanks for all your support though hours of long chats and links to read and learn from in all aspects..

Happy New Year and thanks for a 2012 I can’t wait to see what 2013 will bring, but only time will show..

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,,,

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

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”

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...

My name is Dennis Appelon Nielsen AKA: AppelonD . I’m happy to apply for membership of the BugZapper Fedora group.
I’m 30 years old and live in Denmark. In my day work I’m a Linux system administrator for a company called Logica Danmark A/S
I’m a Red hat Certified Technician (RHCT – 605009853527704), aiming at becoming RHCA (Red Hat Certified Architect). I have used Red Hat Linux sense 1998 where I finished my education as an IT-Supporter.
In my day work I’m the main contact between my company and Red Hat, and I maintain around 100 RHEL servers, most of them which I have installed my self.
I live and bereave for OpenSource, and are happy to brand my self as a OpenSource fanatic. I’m learning Python, and understand most of the Python code I see, I primary worked with GUI development, and some data collection scripts I wrote my self. I love playing around with server configuration, and graphic issues when it comes to proprietary Nvidia for Gnome, also everything there have a hint of debugging in the console, all the way from BIOS though all the runlevels to Gnome.Best regards
Dennis Appelon Nielsen

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…

Jeg har lige fundet et stille hjørne i min svigerfars stue, engetlig kalder sengen, men kan mærke iratationen boble inden i. Svigerfars gamle PC som er et lig jeg har skaffet inde fra arbejde, men en gamle Pentium 4 CPU og 512MB RAM, da jeg i tidernes morgen installerede den for ham, havde jeg ikke set lyset med den åbne og frie desktop, lad mig lige tilføje at jeg kun taler om desktop Linux her, jeg har altid sværge  til Linux på servere siden. Så jeg installerede en voldsom Vista, på den stakkels maskine tilbage i 2007, egentlig var det OK, men min Svigerfar er ikke typen der tænder sin PC hver dag, tværtimod, så er det måske én gang i måneden hvis man er heldig. Dette betyder at alle de gange maskine har været startet op, har den skulle bruge de første 2 timer på opdateringer, ikke særlig optimal vel? … Slet ikke hvis maskinens eneste opgave er lidt begrænset internet surfing, mange gange link surfing, hvor han har modtaget et link til noget som han så klikker på. Her har den store udfordring været opstart af Vista, og efterfølgende Outlook for ikke glemme Internet Explorer, til at loade hans link. hvem ved måske lidt java eller flash bare lige for at være sikker på at den stakkels CPU ikke keder sig eller at der er en RAM fejl sidst på en af de mange 512MB han har. Det lyder måske lidt morsomt, men jeg respektere min svigerfars holdning til computer og internet, dog ikke helt sociale medier så som FB eller andre spændende steder, hvor folk måske kunne se et billede af ham ved et uheld. men lad nu det ligge. sagen er nu den at jeg vil have opgraderet hans PC til Fedora 14 med dansk sprog som standard. Jeg har som regle altid ISO filer til d.i.v. Fedora ISOs der findes, men af en eller anden årsag, så har jeg aldrig fået hentede 32bit udgaven, gad nok vide hvorfor .-) ?… Så jeg sprang på med glæde, 1.2.3. og jeg var i gang med at downloade F14 32Bit DVD ISO filen, og begyndte at glæde mig til en aften med kaffe og fred og ro til at nusse lidt om den s hårdt prøvede maskine, men hvad sker så! først vågner Alexander af en grim drøm, som lige er ved at tage pippet fra ham, og vi må faktisk tage ham op, og trylle lidt med en barnevogns kasse i weekend sengen for at få ro på, i alt den tid tror jeg min maskine står og henter F14, og det har den også gjort største del af tiden, men åbenbart da der var 3 minutter tilbage væltede den trådløse router, altså ikke bokstavlig væltede, men gik i baglås på en eller anden mystisk måde. Jeg pauser så hentingen og begynde så jagten på hvad fejlen kunne være, her ender jeg dog med at pille strømmen fra og sætte den tilbage igen…. og ja! så kom jeg endelig på fra stuen igen. Her efter valgte jeg fortsæt/resume, men den blev ved med at stå på 3 minutter…. SATANS der smutte den hygge stund med kaffe og Fedora installation. Nu er klokken ved at 22 og min sunde fornuft vider vist i aften, og jeg går i seng, dog med en brændt udgave af F14 32bit DVD, Gitte mener jeg får tiden til at lave det imorgen, men hvorfor ved jeg bare at det ikke bliver det samme…

Nå vi er som sagt kommet godt til Thy, med en meget træt dreng, som ser frem til at skulle besøge begge hans oldemødre imorgen, og når jeg siger imorgen, mener jeg tidlig morgen, han står normal op kl. 6

Som vi runder den 5 februar så har jeg været far i ét helt år, hvilket jeg virkelig mærker for tiden da jeg går hjemme på 6 ugers barsel, Lidt en udfordring at have 3 timer til mine interesser som maksimum for én helt dag, hvilket gør mig lidt en udfordring at være gift med, da jeg forsøger at bruge alle de minutter jeg kan på at sidde og udøve min hobby i form af Fedora, tv serier m.m.

Podcast er et fantastisk media som hjælper mig i hverdagen

Med mere indeholder også min nye fundet glæde for den store verden af podcasts, specielt alle mine favoritter, så som Linux Outlaws, Tux Radar, FLOOS Weakly, RatholeRadio.org, alle de mange fantastiske Twit podcasts, En fast undreholdnings kilde i men hverdag, foran min skærme på arbejde og ikke mindst i bilen via FM fra min Nokia N97.

Micro bloggings systmer

identi.ca har også vundet voldsom indhug i min hverdag, bruger den faktisk som et fast værktøj i min dagligdag, både til research og ikke mindst sociale beskeder, med andre nørder som mig. Twitter modtager også alle mine idents, og jeg tjekker dem daglig, det er en dejlig uforpligtende måde at kommunikere på, og det kan kun anbefales for alle.

Linux Desktop bruger

Jeg kan også prale af at havde været Windows fri i over ét år nu, og det smitter af på mine omgivelser, f.eks. min kone som nu er den glade bruger af en Lenovo T60 med Fedora 13, lidt en omvæltning for hende, men tror faktisk hun er begyndt at se fordelen i et Vista fri arbejdsmiljø. Personlig fik jeg ny bærbar lige før jeg gik på barsel En dejlig Lenovo W510, med i7 og 12GB RAM, et lille vidunder som jeg er ved at lære at kende, lidt en omvæltning fra en fuld HD skærm til en LED med 1600×800 frem for mine 1920×1200 som var min opløsning på min gamle troværdige T61p. Ud over det, er jeg så småt ved at få om lagt mine nærmeste ‘s bærbar og stationære, lige fra en fast ”privat” kunde fra arbejde til naboens søn, og arbejder hårdt på at få min far og svigerfar over også. Har lidt hårdt sagt nej til Windows spørgsmål, og prøver så at få dem over hvis de spørg. Det er selvfølgelige Fedora jeg benytter til dem alle. Fedora er lidt blevet en del af mig, efter som jeg er begyndt at følge mailliglister så som Fedora general, men ikke mindst design holdet, som jeg håber at blive en del af en dag. Jeg lytter også på RPM Fusions commit mailingliste, hvor jeg med hjælp fra dem har har pakket min første RPM pakke, efter at havde læst Python koden igennem, en lille opgave der giver gåpåmod og viljestyre.

Jeg fylder 30 i April 2011

Åh, åh jeg runder også et skarpt hjørne den 2 april 2011, hvor det bliver officielt 10 år siden jeg fyldte 20, det bliver mystisk at skulle sige, 30 når man skal oplyse sin alder, tænk at 1981 er 30 år siden :-).

Tegne tableten har givet mig en ny hobby

2010 blev også året hvor jeg fik foræret en tegne tablet, et fantastisk stykke værktøj, som jeg ikke kan forstå jeg nogensend har kunne undvære… ”My Paint” er en fantastisk måde at bruge sin kostbare tid på, og et rigtig godt sted at starte hvis du før har haft lyst til at prøve om du har flare for tegning farver og perspektiv, helt uden at bruge en masse penge på redskaber. Opdagede også Riven Phoenix, som er en fantastisk læremester når det kommer til at tegne realistisk

Programmering er ved at vinde ind på mig igen, med min nye fundet glæde for Python

Jeg har samtidig fundet mig et nyt programmeringssprog her 12 år efter Qbasic, som jeg syntes er mega spændende, navnet er Python, og det er et sejt og simpel sprog, hvis du ikke kender det, er det helt klart et kig være, man kan lave alt med det, det er lige føre man også kan skralle kartofler hvis man kunne få en computer styret skrælle kniv, at skrive kode til.

Lad mig slutte denne årets sidste blog, med at takke alle dem der tager sig tiden til at læse min blog, og benytte denne chance til at ønske alle et rigtig godt nytår.

Fedora 14 jeg byder dig velkommen…

Fedora is a lifestyle, a lifestyle not a religion, it is a way of living just like Qabalah, something you can share with others, something all can be a part of, something there spreads happiness. Open Source is code that it creators is not ashamed to showoff to others, with other words, Open Source is quality, a quality there have been controlled by so many, there not just read though the code, but contribute and optimizing along with there study. There is no force,just people there have passion for the code, they often use them self

Fedora 14 I welcome you…

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