Monthly Archives: December 2014

Oh Yeah, It Might Not Have Been North Korea

See, I usually avoid discussing purely theoretical IT issues on this blog.  It’s more important to me that I stick to practical matters which actually help people out.  The Internet is full of theoretical discourse (to give it a very … Continue reading

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The Proportionate Response to North Korea

You know, I thought about this for a while, and then the most obvious, most awesome answer hit me clearly.  I have a feeling our proportionate response should include a lot less data exfiltration and a lot more data infiltration. … Continue reading

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Installing the Proprietary AMD Catalyst 14.12 (fglrx) Driver on Fedora 20 (with kernel 3.17!)

Update:  See the next post in the series for instructions regarding the installation of the AMD Catalyst driver on Fedora 21. This is an easy and quick post, since the new driver from AMD installs in the same way as … Continue reading

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Changing Fedora 21 Products

So, it appears my debacle has been observed before, all the way back in July 2014.  Stephen Gallagher seems to have envisioned this situation as being as simple as removing one package and adding the other (or not having any … Continue reading

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FedUp: Upgrading to Fedora 21 with the KDE Spin

Just a public service announcement: The recommended method given by Matthew Miller of Fedora Magazine for someone who is running KDE on Fedora 20 to use FedUp is with the –product=nonproduct option and argument. So your fedup command would look … Continue reading

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