Jul 7, 2013
How To Install Silicondust HDHomerun on Fedora 19
HDHomeRun is a TV tuner for computers – Ethernet attached. Once connected to your home router you can access the HDHomeRun Tuners from any computer, anywhere in your home. Watch / Record TV from anywhere you have a computer.First, you have to install some per-requisites to build the dvbhdhomerun drivers needed on Fedora. $ sudo yum -y install asciidoc binutils-devel cmake elfutils-devel gcc-c++ hdhomerun... read more
Jul 2, 2013
How To Manually Uninstall Oracle Client on Linux
You know how it goes, you try running the uninstall process and no matter how hard you try it just doesn’t go as planned. So, it is time to get the hammer. Well it just happened to be one of those moments with trying to remove a botched Oracle 11g client install on RHEL 6. Needed it removed so a clean install could be performed, but needed to know where all the hiding places were. First stop any... read more
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
