Jul 30, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Disable IPv6 In Fedora 21

Today we’ll learn how to disable IPv6 on Fedora 21. The steps will work on Fedora 19 – 22. Currently our network configuration these days does not require IPv6 support. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the... read more

Jan 28, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Editing and Viewing RAW images in GIMP 2.8

Introduction In this post I have decided to post some fun items on Linux. When I was in high school I was very much into art and that has continued on through out my adult life. DSLR cameras bring us RAW images which are big and uncompressed images in which we can make our own changes to the images. By default GIMP does not know how to handles the images so we turn to UFRaw (http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/)... read more

Apr 23, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Nvidia Drivers on Fedora 20 Dell M1530

This post covers how to install the latest nvidia drivers on a Dell M1530 laptop running Fedora 20. Find out what chipset you are running. $ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84M [GeForce 8600M GT] (rev a1) Update to the latest kernel and SELinux and reboot $ sudo yum update kernel* selinux-policy* $ reboot Install RPMFusion $ su -c ‘yum localinstall... read more

Apr 22, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Install TLP on Fedora 20 for Battery Management

You can use the default battery management with Fedora or can use TLP which is better at managing battery life on laptops. TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management for Linux without the need to understand every technical detail. TLP comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life, so you may just install and forget it. You will need to have rpmfusion installed and... read more

Apr 6, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Convert M4A to MP3 on Linux

There are many different formats out there for music and many different players out there, one of the most popular on Windows and MAC OSX is iTunes due to the iPod. The issue that we run into is being able to play the music you paid for on Linux without iTunes or another player. One such way to make the music universally play on  anything is to convert it to MP3 format. This post explains how to convert... read more