Dec 21, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Install GIMP un-stable 2.7.3 to Fedora 15 x64

As a user of great open-source products for graphics and other multimedia work. One of the great tools out there is GIMP which competes with Adobe Photoshop and doesn’t cost an arm and leg. The latest un-stable version 2.7.3 can be installed on Fedora thanks to nphilipp who maintains a repo in fedorapeople. This post will describe how to get and install so you can start using the latest GIMP. Open a... read more

Oct 10, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Alfresco 4.0a Community Edition Released

Exciting today for Alfresco Users. On 9/30/11 Alfresco 4.0a Community Edition was released. Alfresco is the OpenSource answer to Microsoft’s SharePoint. The community version is free as well as a pay for Enterprise Edition. Look for future posts on installing Alfresco on Windows and Linux systems and configuring and using as well. Very exciting times!!! read more

Oct 1, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing OCS Inventory NG Part 1

With a small office and on a budget needed to find a way to manage our amassing computer equipment. Enter in OCS Inventory NG (Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation) OCS Inventory NG is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computers configuration and software that are installed on the network. OCS Inventory is also able to detect all active... read more

Aug 20, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing NVIDIA Drivers Fedora 14

Recently I was rebuilding a system with Fedora 14 which has an Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT chipset and ran into an issue in which the nouveau driver supplied by the distribution could not support some of the features I was needing. With a bit of digging in multiple places I was able to find pieces to accomplish the task at hand. In this post I will attempt to show the process I used to get Fedora 14 to use the... read more

May 5, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Remotely Posting Blogs WordPress 3.1

Recently I found the need to be able to use a Weblog client to connect to the sites and post content. There are several clients available to handle this task for Linux, MacOSX and Windows. As a matter of fact this post was created using GScribble (Linux). Installing the Weblog Client and trying to connect immediately will not work. You have to enable “Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog... read more