Last Sunday, I had my first successful dive in about a year…
Last week I tried as well, but I was unlucky not to be able to clear my ears, disabling the descent below 3 meters.
But last Sunday, it was awesome, in the nice water of Dutch Vinkeveen, I saw a snoek, was rather nice.. It’s my 31st dive together with my girlfriend, preparing myself to go diving in Mexico, this November.. It will be fun!..
Yes.. Time is approaching.. yet two modules to go before I will be RHCA.. finally. I think it will be of value to be certified.. it is a new milestone in my Linux carreer.. it certifies my knowledge which I have gained in the last 12 years of Linux enthousiasm.
The last module will be next year, in February. I want to have RHCSS in February as well, so let’s hope all will work out fine.. 
Yes.. I finally got it working.. not granting this issue much time, it took a while for me to have my Fedora 9 machine working within a VMWare workstation session…
What was wrong? The mouse pointer was not synchronized well. The guest ’saw’ my pointer on other places than where my actual mouse was.
The solution? as suggested by this blog, I modified the xorg.conf, and voila, I had it going.. now I can continue my Fedora Directory server quest while using Gentoo Linux as my host machine.
Thanks, tapman!
This saturday, we will be doing a cocktail shake workshop with a lot of friends. Not knowing what to expect, I am very curious..
I am curious if this will change the way we are cerebrating our birthdays, will we be shaking cocktails from now on? Or will we remain pouring ourselves fruit juices and beer?
With the use of the ATI fglrx driver on Gentoo, the frustrations are far from over.
My configuration:
The problem: Besides known issues I noticed new problems with the current kernel on this driver:
I ended up switching to the opengl of xorg-x11, but issue 2 remains.
with the xorg-x11 renderer, at least my screensaver works as expected; with the fglrx driver I need to enter text mode (ctrl-alt F1) to kill gnome-screensaver-gl-helper (two times, for each screen) in order to get my unlock password popup again.
I sure hope ati will get their development and support department sorted, as rumors that NVidia is having better support doesn’t make me happyi.
I can’t understand why, but as a Dvorak typist I run into problems with GNOME. GNOME has a nice feature to switch the keyboard lay-out from the default, QWERTY, to the Dvorak layout.
But, it doesn’t (reliably) work for Ctrl and Alt keys. I am not sure what causes the troubles, but according to this bug report at gnome.org it is due to some low-level interpretation of the keyboard strokes.
What worries me is that it takes so long for such a report to get handled with. It is a report dating from 2005 and still (10/2008) has the status NEW.
I hope to be able to report progress on this at any time
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