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A better top

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Victor Chudnovsky

I just found out about atop. I like it.

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Fedora 13: Solving nss-softokn version issues

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Victor Chudnovsky

Since my Fedora 13 upgrade, I kept getting errors when installing Picasa: Transaction Check Error: package nss-softokn-3.12.4-19.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.i686) is already installed The solution, which I found here, is to first do sudo yum downgrade nss-softokn

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Painful upgrade

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Victor Chudnovsky

For the past couple of months, I’ve been trying to upgrade to Fedora 12, but the process has not been working. The chkconfig package, in particular, has been refusing to install. This left my system in a not quite perfect … Continue reading →

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Always-on-top shortcut

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Victor Chudnovsky

It’s useful to sometimes always have a window be on top of all others. In my windowing systems, there is a window frame option for this. Usually, though, I prefer keyboard shortcuts. A friend told me how to set one … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome for Linux: enabling Flash

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Victor Chudnovsky

An official beta build of Google Chrome for Linux has been out for a couple of weeks now; I’m loving it! To get Flash to work on it, refer to the directions here.

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