Tag: linux
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My New Old Dell Latitude D620
Out of the kindness of his heart, my good buddy, Andrew, has donated a gently used Dell D620 laptop to my collection. Not a super beast of a machine, but that’s not what I need it for. As you can see, I currently have CentOS 6.5 installed. I initially started with CentOS 7, but I…
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Fun With Aliases
I’m not sure if this is good form or not, but I’ve made some aliases to take me to some frequently used folders on my hard drive and my Dropbox. Additionally, an alias to the handy dandy Dropbox python script. Also added the human readable switch to ll. [travnewmatic@localhost ~]$ aliasalias box=’python /home/travnewmatic/Dropbox/dropbox.py’alias doc=’cd /home/travnewmatic/Documents/’alias…
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SABnzbd+ for EL7
Handy! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14500830/SABnzbd/RHEL-CentOS/7/repoview/index.html Gotta do a little bit manually, but its working!
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Wireless Success on CentOS 7 with ath5k
[travnewmatic@localhost ~]$ sudo lspci | grep Wireless 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR2413/AR2414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5005G(S) 802.11bg] (rev 01) …was no work out of the box. Ethernet was sufficient since my computer is located near the router. My D-Link DWA-1320 wireless PCI card has been a champ ever since I’ve owned it. Its handled…
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I heart CentOS 7
So I’ve been using CentOS 7 as my desktop OS for a few days now. Made significant headway in the edX Linux intro course, and things are going very very well. Since the course uses CentOS 6.5, I’ve created a virtual machine (in virtual box) to fiddle with and to do the activities in. However,…
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Nux Desktop = Awesome
Awesome repo for RHEL and CentOS http://li.nux.ro/repos.html For RHEL7/CentOS7 copy/paste: rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm and rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-1.el7.nux.noarch.rpm