This Tutorial is just a documentation of how I flashed my Samsung Galaxy S (I9000) using heimdall with Darky’s Rom v10.1, follow the steps at your own risk. I am in no way liable for any damage caused to your phone following these steps. I would advise reading up on flashing before proceeding along...
Read more →Upon testing my GitHub setup on my home computer I got the following error after inputting this: ssh [email protected] Returned: Agent admitted failure to sign using the key. Permission denied (publickey). You’ll need to run: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa Make sure to enter the passphrase for the ssh key you generated.
Read more →In GNOME 3 it seems that the keyboard shortcut to delete a file in Nautilus is actually Ctrl+Delete, this is fine I guess if it’s trying to stop people accidentally deleting files or something but it’s pretty annoying. To change the keyboard shortcut from Ctrl+Delete back to the usual Delete do the following: Open...
Read more →Install RPM Fusion su -c ‘yum localinstall –nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ – http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration Enable unsupported video and audio codecs Get enhanced audio and video support in applications that rely on GStreamer: sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg Get enhanced audio and video support in applications that rely on xine backend: sudo yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld –...
Read more →WARNING: by continuing following this guide you are putting your machine at risk by disabling the secuity features within SELinux, I strongly advise if you do not know what you are doing, stop and read up on the implications this action will have before continuing. Some information is avaible in the Fedora Wiki here...
Read more →After installing dropbox from the RPM package availble on the site on a new Fedora 15 install, I was unable to use yum without coming across this error: $ update Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 – Not Found : http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/repodata/repomd.xml Trying other mirror. http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error...
Read more →Open up the openbox config file, it should be located in /home/username/.config/openbox/ but if it’s not you might have to do a little digging. nano /~.config/openbox/rc.xml Find the following lines and remove or comment them out, you can use Ctrl+W in nano to find: <mousebind action="Click" button="Up"> <action...
Read more →Head over to this page if you want some tutorials on getting started with the Kinect and libfreenect, I’ll update more as time goes on and I have free time. I’ve been meaning to grab myself an Xbox 360 Kinect for a while, not because I’m a big motion controlled game fan but for...
Read more →error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/__init__.pyo exists in filesystem wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/backend.pyo exists in filesystem wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.pyo exists in filesystem wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/dbusmanager.pyo exists in filesystem wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/logfile.pyo exists in filesystem wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.pyo exists in filesystem wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/networking.pyo exists in filesystem wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wnettools.pyo exists in filesystem wicd: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wpath.pyo exists in filesystem Errors occurred,...
Read more →The latest version of my final year project, almost complete. It’s designed to be a pedestrian detection system used in reversing cameras on cars. Possibly more information to come, see here – projects/finalyearproject/
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