Robert Hoekstra's blog » Linux http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress Because I like to share. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:32:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Passed for RHCA http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2009/05/passed-for-rhca http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2009/05/passed-for-rhca#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 06:43:19 +0000 robert http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/?p=76 Last week I’ve been to London again for my last Red Hat course.. With this I have achieved my RHCA status.

Am I happy about this? no doubt.. It taught me well about several enterprise implementations of Red Hat products that enhanced my knowledge on those topics towards the datacenter as a whole. Now . . . → Read More: Passed for RHCA]]> http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2009/05/passed-for-rhca/feed 0 Upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10 http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/12/upgrade-from-fedora-9-to-10 http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/12/upgrade-from-fedora-9-to-10#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:57:08 +0000 robert http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/?p=48 It went smooth… so I thought…

Oh. wait, this sounds worse than it is… it WENT smooth.. but not totally flawless!.. Here’s what I found out when upgrading Fedora 9 to 10.

First of all, I had my system online and performed a ‘yum upgrade’ to upgrade the system.. After downloading over 800MB . . . → Read More: Upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10]]> http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/12/upgrade-from-fedora-9-to-10/feed 1 Fedora 9 finally working in VMWare guest http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fedora-9-finally-working-in-vmware-guest http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fedora-9-finally-working-in-vmware-guest#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:26:23 +0000 robert http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/?p=18 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.

. . . → Read More: Fedora 9 finally working in VMWare guest]]> http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fedora-9-finally-working-in-vmware-guest/feed 0 fglrx on Gentoo, ongoing frustration http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:44:47 +0000 robert http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/?p=9 With the use of the ATI fglrx driver on Gentoo, the frustrations are far from over.

My configuration:

laptop, HP nc8430 two displays, panel (1680×1050) and an external monitor (1280×1024) Gentoo Linux, at time of writing kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 (stable) ati-drivers 8.532, the 8.9 version of the ATI Catalyst driver

The problem: Besides known issues . . . → Read More: fglrx on Gentoo, ongoing frustration]]> http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/fglrx-on-gentoo-ongoing-frustration/feed 0 Keyboard problems in GNOME http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/keyboard-problems-in-gnome http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/keyboard-problems-in-gnome#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:05:55 +0000 admin http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/?p=6 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 . . . → Read More: Keyboard problems in GNOME]]> http://www.hoekstra.nu/wordpress/2008/10/keyboard-problems-in-gnome/feed 0