A friend of mine had a problem with incorrect display of the Russian fonts with Googleearth installed to the default location at /opt/googleearth.
Skype Fix
Everything you need is: sudo yum install control-center-extra pulseaudio-libs.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 dbus-qt.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 Then install skype in a normal way as I describe here. Tested on HP Compaq CQ71 laptop.
Conky-colors Plus on Fedora 11
The below describes how to install Conky-colors Plus on Fedora 11. You can have a look how it generally looks like at its original web site. Prepare for the installation: cd ~/software/ sudo yum install pystatgrab statgrab-tools
Making outdated Block Countries plugin for WordPress work
Download the plugin from http://www.jasonlitka.com/2007/04/16/wordpress-plugin-block-countries/ . Install in a regular way. Do not go to options now. Download ip database from http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/node/view/6
Latest conky with images support enabled in Fedora
This has always been a question to have a quality conky installation on your desktop supporting images and other goodies. To get it, you have to create your own rpm from the latest source.
[Solved] No sound in Fedora 12 (hda_generic: no PCM found), HP Compaq CQ71
A friend of mine asked me to install something on his new laptop, I chose Fedora 12 to give a try. The choice was mostly explained with my struggle with the Huawei E1550 pen drive 3g modem but this is…
