Archive > Tag: Fedora 18

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 …

Migración a NginX

Me da gusto anunciar que http://woralelandia.com/ y el Servidor de la Comunidad han sido migrados a http://nginx.org/!

Antes, usábamos http://cherokee-project.com/; pero, al ser olvidado por su creador, pues, no nos queda más que migrar.

Además, creo que NginX tiene varias cosas muy suaves. Me …


HowTo: Identi.ca/Twitter/Laconi.ca en Fedora 18

Bueno, es muy fácil integrar identi.ca/twitter/laconi.ca en empathy/telepathy. Solo instala purple-microblog.

yum install purple-microblog

De esta manera, tendrás disponibles las tres cosas en tu "accounts" en Empathy; o cualquier cliente que use telepathy. Es lo más chido y sencillo.

La neta, esta no es una …


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 …


HowTo: Cómo monto un SMB share en Fedora 18?

Bueno, hoy, en lo particular, tube un poco de problemas al querer montar mi disco duro de películas en Fedora.

No tuve problemas antes, pero, imagino, han de ser algunas ondas relacionadas con la edad de mi router TP-Link; el cual comparte mi disco duro de películas en la red …


Warning: nginx 1.2.7 broke down

Ok, today, I was playing around with my zend framework.

I noticed that nginx had some updates and I applied them. It stop working after a nice systemctl restart nginx.service.

Now, here's my setup: https://github.com/renich/fedora-configs/tree/nginx

Well, more less. I have things configured for …


autokrn: an automated kernel building system

Well, I kind of had this idea: https://plus.google.com/114257692259380959226/posts/WDgaDk46eZB

And I am working, as newbie as I am, in a ruby project that I've named autokrn.

What it should do

  • It should detect all your hardware and know which modules you're currently using. * it should …

HowTo: Como reinstalar grub2-efi @ Fedora 18

Hoy hice una actualización de EFI; antes BIOS, y se cargó a la chingada mi booteo en Fedora. Porqué? Bueno, con eso del UEFI, ahora, en Fedora (y varias otras distros), el booteo es manejado por el EFI. Hay que registrar tu booteador en el EFI.

En todo caso, batallé …