31 August 2011 ~ 2 Comments

64-bit Firefox 6 on CentOS 6 x86_64 (or Fedora) with Flash 11

TweetSo I’ve gone back to Linux from Mac, due to the SSD issues I had with my Macbook Pro basically making VMware unusable. A Win7 VM would grind the guest and host to a halt on the 7200 RPM SATA OEM drive, and the SSD wouldn’t work, so I put the SSD back in my [...]

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26 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Why is my laptop so freaking hot?

TweetHP Compaq nc8430, Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz. Fedora Core 12 x86_64, kernel 2.6.32.19-163.fc12.x86_64 (just updated via yum). At idle, with nothing running in the foreground, the CPU is around 70-72° Celsius, and the other sensors are 80°+. Why is this? It seems like every time I run yum update the machine gets hotter. I [...]

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09 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

HOWTO: Install Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora / CentOS / RedHat Linux

TweetUpdated 8/31/2011 See my newer post on this subject. I know I’ve been through this before because I’ve setup Fedora before and it’s working. But I just installed FC12 on my desktop at home (since my Seagate drive bricked itself a few days ago and I had to reinstall anyway) and while I finally got [...]

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23 April 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Windows XP guests hang on shutdown in VMware Workstation on Linux

TweetI had this problem with FC11, where I couldn’t properly shut down or suspend the Windows XP VM I run (mostly for Outlook). When I’d shutdown inside the guest, it would mostly do what you’d expect, but then the screen would go blue, then black, and then the only way I could get the thing [...]

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