I have had this one in the queue for a while (I don’t even run of Fedora 20 anymore). This one will be short and sweet, because there really isn’t a bunch of discussion that needs to go into it. By default Fedora 20 will block outbound PPTP VPN connections.…
Fedora 20: Firefox Reports Flash as Vulnerable
This problem starts with Firefox reporting that your flash-plugin is out of date. This report looks like this and disables all flash. After this we will take a look Mozilla’s Plugin Check to see what it thinks is going on. Now here we can see that version 11.2.202.440 is vulnerable. …
SQL Developer Crash on Fedora 20
I ran into a painful issue on Fedora 20 with SQL Developer. Basically every time it was launched via the shortcut it would go through loading, and then disappear. Manual Invocation of SQL Developer When launching it via the script itself it gives us a little more information. I also…
Fedora 18: Noticing Clock Skew?
Recently I noticed that my clock was beginning to skew, and NTP wasn’t able to keep up with it. This is due to having a “system clock” and a “hardware clock” the system clock is the one that the OS controls, while the hardware clock is controlled by the BIOS…
Media Management: Rename JPG Images Based on Metadata
I have been doing a bit of cleanup around my home file server, and have noticed that while I have a really beautiful collections of family photographs there is no logical organization around these photos. I have many duplicates names, which would collide in the event of trying to merge…