rpmrebuild-2.3-1 is out for Fedora 10

The new package is out and should work fine with rpm 4.6.0

Enjoy,

AS

MSN broken on pidgin... Temporary fix

I am sure an update will be out to fix the issue with the MSN protocol on pidgin that started recently (it started this morning for me)... For now, I compiled and installed: MSN Pecan for pidgin, it works with an older version of the MSN protocol, and it seems to let you connect to MSN messenger just fine.

Note: x86_64 users, if you do a 'make install' it will install the library on /usr/lib/purple-2, but you actually want it installed on /usr/lib64/purple-2/ ... I just symlinked it to resolve my issue.

rpmrebuild 2.3 (that actually works on Fedora 10) is almost here

Hopefully it will be out sometime next week. Here's the request for testing.

Using tabs in Vim

Thanks Brenton for the heads up:

Opening several files:
vim -p file1 file2 file3

Navigating to next tab:
:tabn

Navigating to previous tab:
:tabp

Opening a new tab/file:
:tabe file4

Socket Programming in Bash

I learned the following today about socket programming in shell:

 exec 3<>/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80
 echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n">&3
 cat <&3

Source: http://thesmithfam.org/blog/2006/05/23/bash-socket-programming-with-devtcp-2/

Disabling bluetooth on Thinkpads

[root@bean2-laptop ~]# echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth