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My trip to Archland (Arch Linux)

I am an infamous Fedorian. Everybody who knows me, knows that. I love Fedora. Been with it since Fedora Core 1 and never left it.

This said, I just made a trip to Archland! I try to use some other distros between Fedora releases. The list of distros I have …


Fedora 19 up and running!

Yep, just upgraded. It's 5 AM and noticed the mirrors there.

I am totally happy! I can't believe it. FedUp did the trick this time!

fedup --network 19 --reboot

That was it. The production, testing and devel servers went down and up in 378 pings (1 sec per ping). This …


HowTo: Use ip instead of ifconfig

The other day, I was helping out some guy to set his IP address. He missed ifconfig; which is deprecated by the way, and I lent a hand; helping him get around the "ip" command.

Here's a micro cheatsheet:

# get some info on your link
# This will show your links …

HowTo: Fix Google Chrome's slowness on Fedora

Well, if you; like me, hate Google Chrome recently; because it gets slow as a turtle, here's a solution:

google-chrome %U --disable-accelerated-compositing

I dunno what the %U does, but the other one is self explanatory. This solved my slowness problems.

My symptoms:

  • Impossible to view flash videos (choppy most of …

HowTo: Regenerate tmpfiles without restarting

Ok, I'm playing around with thin and nginx now. I am into sinatra and padrino and stuff.

So, I am creating sockets for thin so nginx can read them. I need a directory in /run

I've decided to create a directory called thin; with 2770 permissions and owner/group would …