Changing the timezone on Fedora and CentOS

Image by courtneyBolton via Flickr Setting the timezone on CentOS. This is going to take me longer to write this article up than actually showing you how to accomplish this. This is pretty much a fairly simple operation. There are loads of timezone data files stored in: ?View Code BASH/usr/share/zoneinfo I have seen many people [...]

May 6th, 2010 by Allen Sanford 

Fedora 12 (Constantine) – Just Linux?

Fedora has always been one of the strongest distributions, I mean come on they are sponsored by RedHat. Once upon a time I used Fedora religiously and there was no-one anywhere which could change my mind. One day the Fedora Project people, I’ll just say there are many which know which version I refer to [...]

December 7th, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Fedora: Installing Skype

This howto covers setting up the skype repo and installing skype. If you are like me then you do your VoIP calling from your Fedora machine using the Skype network. Well lets get it installed.

November 2nd, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Fedora: Canon Pixma IP1800 Printer Driver

Today I switched to Fedora (Fedora 11 as of this writing but 12 is only a couple days away so it should still work the same way) and one of the first things I needed to was to install the print drivers for my Canon Pixma IP1800 printer. I love my little Canon printer and [...]

November 1st, 2009 by Allen Sanford 

Postfix Google Apps / Gmail SMTP Relay

For this to work you will need both SASL and SSL support compiled into postfix. Thank goodness Ubuntu by default does this for me. If you are not so luck them you will need to compile SASL and SSL support into your postfix install. To find out you can run the following command and the output should be similar to that below making note wether sasl and ssl are in the list (really for this that is all that is needed).

April 30th, 2009 by Allen Sanford