A friend of mine had a problem with incorrect display of the Russian fonts with Googleearth installed to the default location at /opt/googleearth.
Skype Fix
Everything you need is: sudo yum install control-center-extra pulseaudio-libs.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 dbus-qt.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 Then install skype in a normal way as I describe here. Tested on HP Compaq CQ71 laptop.
Making outdated Block Countries plugin for WordPress work
Download the plugin from http://www.jasonlitka.com/2007/04/16/wordpress-plugin-block-countries/ . Install in a regular way. Do not go to options now. Download ip database from http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/node/view/6
QPxTool for Fedora 11
QPxTool is the linux way to get full control over your CD/DVD drives.
xvidcap in Fedora 11 (Error accessing sound input from /dev/dsp)
When you need to capture something from your screen, there is a great program which does the job for you, xvidcap.
Uniconverter and sK1 to Read Corel Draw Format in Linux
I had some situation when my designer sent me a pretty nice logo in a .cdr (Corel Draw) format which I wanted to use in my web site. Searching over the internet showed there is a vector graphics editor which…
