remove i386 RPMs from x86_64 CentOS/RHEL install
Just a tidbit I picked up from another blog and wanted to repeat here. I was handed a new pair of production x86_64 servers that had a couple hundred i386 packages installed, I needed to remove those en masse to prevent a mixed userland (and accidental compiles with the wrong libraries) – not something I do every day so off to Google we went.
rpm -qa --queryformat='%{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}\n' | grep '\.i[3456]86$' | xargs rpm -ev
That’ll scrub your system in one fell swoop of all those errant RPM files. Danke, andreas!
Fedora 11 beta – Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled by default
It’s one of those “I’m sure hoping this is an April Fool’s Day jokes” moments but I seriously doubt it is, based on the commit date of the code change last year. The Fedora 11 beta was released today and this one little tidbit caught my eye right away:
The key combination Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server has been disabled by default as a decision of the upstream Xorg project.
The release note link is here, I’ll copy the relevant xorg.conf settings below to help get the information out to everyone. I don’t know about y’all, but C+A+B has saved my bacon a lot of times, disabling it by default seems like a terrible, bad, ill-conceived choice.
post/save links to del.icio.us from the G1/Android
We don’t have a dedicated del.icio.us applet in the Market yet, but then again I don’t use one on my desktop Firefox either; just some bookmarks with javascript. Guess what? They work on your G1/Android as well! Not as cleanly as we’d like or prefer at the moment, but definitely usable.
easily get your Luxi fonts back in Fedora 9, Fedora 10, +
I roll with Luxi Sans – that’s just the kind of guy I am. The font looks fantastic on LCD/laptop screens of varying dimensions (I use 1400×1050 on a Thinkpad T43, 1600×1200 on a Dell 2007FP, and 1900×1200 on a Dell XPS Gen 2) and to me is the best available. Luxi Mono as a console font is great. Sadly with the release of Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 the team removed the fonts from the distro due to licensing reasons (read about it here). See below for a quick and easy way to get it back on your system.
enable root GDM (GNOME) login with Fedora 10
Ahh yes, another Fedora release, another set of annoyances to deal with. This time around it took them less than 10 minutes to piss me off by disabling root logins from the GDM. Read below on a super simple edit to change this and allow the root login to happen.
