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Jun 24, 2013
How to Install Ardour 3.2 on Fedora 18
Ardour 3 is the latest version available for the premier DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for Linux. Unfortunately due to Ardour recently changing to a payment oriented package distribution the Fedora repositories are at release 2.8.6. This is for the built packages, you can build it yourself, which is what we are going to do. There are a few dependencies we need to install as well as a realtime kernel.... read more
Jun 21, 2013
Monitoring Filesystem Events with incron on RHEL 6
Have you ever wanted to know when a file is changed or accessed by the system or user? There is a program that does just that task called Inotify cron (incron). Incron is for monitoring filesystem activity. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods incron... read more
Jun 18, 2013
Useful RPM and YUM Commands
RPM and YUM commands are used daily by RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Administrators and sometimes having a few more tricks up you sleeve for getting information from the command line are always handy to have. Listed in this post are 14 useful commands for RPM and YUM. 1. Getting rpm to display architecture This one is a pretty simple tip, and very useful especially for people using x86_64 systems. Just one line in... read more
Jun 6, 2013
How To Install Bluefish 2.2.4 on Fedora 18
Bluefish is a great Web Development IDE for Linux / Windows and Mac OSX. Having the latest and greatest on Fedora 18 is always a plus and sadly in the repositories it is at 2.2.3 and not 2.2.4, but great news we can take care of that in short order. If you have installed Fedora’s supplied Bluefish you will need to uninstall it. $ sudo rpm -e bluefish bluefish-shared-data Now let’s download the... read more
Jun 3, 2013
Using the Raspberry Pi as a NAS
Here we have another great use for the Raspberry Pi as a NAS server for your LAN. In this post we’ll be using a Thermaltake BlacX USB SATA attached to the Pi with a 1 TB drive with ntfs shared to the Windows and MAC systems for access. Install ntfs support $ sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g Create the mount directory and mount it $ sudo mkdir /media/ext Mount as ntfs as user id pi $sudo mount -t auto... read more
