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 …