Blog Archive October 2008

Monthly Archives: October 2008

Ant, RPM, why do my dashes become underscores?

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: October 30, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Just wanted to throw this out and see if anyone else is experiencing this, has experienced this, or knows how to fix this. I only know of one way to reproduce this and it is using Ant to create RPMs. I have my directory structure like the following: /home/username/folder/sub-folder/foo When I run Ant in sub-folder, [...]

Posted in Application | Tagged | 5 Comments

My Daily WTF

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: October 30, 2008 at 5:37 pm

[root@centos-yum-repo ~]# yum whatprovides indexhtml Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.liquidweb.com * updates: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com * addons: chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net * extras: pubmirrors.reflected.net Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished centos-release-notes.i386 : CentOS release notes files centos-release-notes.i386 : CentOS release notes files OK, groovy, now I want to remove centos-release-notes for my [...]

Posted in Personal | Tagged | 14 Comments

Kubuntu Intrepid Dual Monitor Blinking

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: October 22, 2008 at 2:16 pm

OK, so how many of you are trying out Kubuntu Intrepid with a second monitor which works somewhat, but constantly sits there and blinks on and off? If you answered “ya, mine does that” then this is what you need to do: Open up System Settings Go to the Advanced tab Select Service Manager Select [...]

Posted in Linux | Tagged , , | 23 Comments

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