Monthly Archives: January 2009

GSynaptics touchpad on Fedora 10 + HAL

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Steven

If you have a laptop, you probably have a TouchPad which is driven by the “synaptics” driver. To configure your TouchPad, you probably always used the GSynaptics utility, right? This utility required to modify your xorg.conf, but we don’t have … Continue reading →

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Lenovo ThinkPad x301 with Fedora 10 quick review

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Steven

Since a couple of months, I wanted to change my heavy laptop (a HP6710, around 3KG) for a lighter one because I’m walking with this thing on my back for around 1h every day and my back hurts At some … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris at HEIG-VD

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Steven

Yesterday there was an OpenSolaris install party/workshop/presentation at my school, the HEIG-VD. The presentation was made by the Swiss OpenSolaris User Group which were very nice and open about other operating systems Honestly, I didn’t know much about OpenSolaris, so … Continue reading →

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Live (MSN) Messenger is broken in Pidgin

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Steven

All the people using Microsoft’s Live (MSN) Messenger protocol with Pidgin (any OS) or Adium on OS X may have noticed that it wasn’t possible to connect to their prefered IM network since this morning. The reason is that Microsoft … Continue reading →

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