Dave & Naty

Polls!

2008-04-29T11:05:00.004-03:00

I like polls very much. They are an excellent way to know what people think and to make a profile of the readers of your site.Starting the polls season, I ask you what is/was the most expected release: Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9, GNOME 2.22 or KDE 4? Make your choice and vote.

Copying a directory tree excluding files that match a pattern

2008-04-28T10:21:00.003-03:00

I needed to copy /var/cache/yum and all it's subdirectories, but I wanted to leave out RPM packages. With tar, I easily did that, using the --exclude option, as follows:# tar cp /var/cache/fedora --exclude=*.rpm | tar xpYou can exclude more than a pattern using a file. For example, to exclude both RPM packages and headers, create a file called exclude.list with the following content:*.rpm*.hdrNow

Live CD: built

2008-04-25T16:16:00.003-03:00

After so many time, I finally was well sucessfull building a Fedora Live CD. I'm still unable to complete the process on my Fedora. After installing packages, GNOME breaks (with all the software running under it) and livecd-creator process turns defunct. I just got things working inside a virtual machine. Same Fedora version, same software version. Could this be a hardware issue? Or maybe some

A better look for GNOME fonts

2008-04-24T16:54:00.007-03:00

A few days ago I have installed back Fedora 8 on my home desktop after a few weeks running Ubuntu due to professional reasons. It was good to have Fedora back.After the installation, done from a Live CD, I noted fonts were too small and ugly on the desktop windows, which was not good. Using a desktop with ugly fonts is a really bad experience for me and Natalia. So, I started to search the reason

Are the tools developed by Fedora team tested before shipping them?

2008-04-15T17:14:00.010-03:00

That is the question: are the tools developed by Fedora team tested before they're shipped? I'm sure that they are not tested, at least not enough, or not by normal people.I'll be more specific to avoid being unfair. I'm talking about Revisor and livecd-tools. It's incredible. With these tools I never succeeded creating a Fedora Live CD. Never.I'm not a newbie. I'm not stupid. I'm not lazy. I

Download and extract tarballs at the same time

2008-03-27T15:33:00.005-03:00

Linux system administrators or advanced users frequently have contact with tarballs. A tarball is a file that can or can't be compressed and contains a set of files and directories.The standard way to access the content of a tarball available on the Web is downloading it and so, extracting it, as follows:$ wget http://site.domain/file.tar.gz$ tar zxpf file.tar.gz$ lsfile.tar.gz fileBut you can

Printing text selections on Firefox

2008-03-26T13:16:00.004-03:00

The firefox package included in Fedora, Red Hat and CentOS has a long time bug on printing selections. Select any portion of a web page, go to "File" / "Print", select "Selection" and click "Print". You'll get the page printed without any text.This is an old bug present since Firefox 1.5.0.7 which affects Fedora and its derivated distros like Red Hat and CentOS.To fix, you can recompile Firefox

Get rpm working again after removing sqlite

2008-03-20T11:04:00.005-03:00

Yesterday I tried to get Firefox 3 from Fedora 9 working on my Fedora 8 system by compiling the source RPMs. I had to update some packages including sqlite and, after finishing compilation and installing all RPMs, I got Firefox 3 running but with lot of problems, so I decided to go back to Firefox 2, removing the just installed new packages e reinstalling the old ones.To speed up the process I

NFS under Firewall on Fedora

2008-03-05T09:29:00.003-03:00

Here in my work I use Xen as default virtualization technology, virt-manager to manage guests and CentOS as default operating system. To install new guests, I set up virt-manager to access an installation media on my Fedora 8 desktop via NFS, it works very fine.Meanwhile, I decided to finally turn on my desktop firewall and SELinux once my machine have access to all the network and so it have to

Posting on Blogger with Drivel

2008-03-04T10:59:00.001-03:00

Reading my RSS feed I have found Drivel, a journal client for the GNOME desktop that allows you to post to your blogs and manage your posts out of internet browser and, I need to say, I'm impressed with its features.Drivel actually suports Blogger, Live Journal, WordPress, Advocato, Atom and MovableType. I'm a Blogger user. To login, I just typed my username and password, selected Blogger 1.0 on

Welcome to Dave & Naty

2008-02-25T15:51:00.002-03:00

Wow, how long takes configure all details of a blog! But at least, most of configuration is done and we can start publishing.Our names are Davidson Rodrigues Paulo and Natalia Wanick Mattos Paulo. We're brazilian living in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I'm a Linux System Administrator studying Computer Science, she studies Medicine.The main purpose of this blog is to practice English. That