Monthly Archives: July 2008

NetBeans 6.5 Milestone 1

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Steven

The first beta version of NetBeans 6.5 (Milestone 1) came out earlyer this month, I installed it and didn’t have any problems with it until now. The first thing to notice is that the interface looks much more Gnome-native, and … Continue reading →

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Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and Fedora: great success

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Steven

My old iPod Nano 1st generation is half dead, my old Nokia phone from 2003 is half dead, my current mobile phone carrier (Orange) charges an arm and a leg for a service I don’t use that much, it’s time … Continue reading →

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PostgreSQL, TV Card and WordPress updates

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Steven

So, I finally upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.6 and found out about an annoying bug after a number of user comments: WordPress automatically replaces double dashes (–) with single dashes (-) in your posts, this is very annoying when … Continue reading →

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Configure TVtime with a Hauppauge WinTV GO2 on Fedora 9

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Steven

I had an old Hauppauge WinTV GO2 (Conexant 881 chip) tuner card lying around since it stopped to work on my Vista computer, so I decided to install it on my Fedora 9 x86-64 box. Usually I hate TV cards, … Continue reading →

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