Under Linux…should you want all sorts of mp3 files into one, use…

cat "file names with spaces"*.mp3 > otherfilesname.mp3

also available under cygwin

it’s short for concatanate btw.

It’s no good. I have tried to love it but I don’t.

Good things

• It can move slickly on a powerful machine
• Snap onto half the screen, which is great on a wide screen monitor (something similar to windows 7)

Bad Things

• I can’t find the gui that allows me to enable and disable services
• Menus are mostly gone and what’s replaced them takes more and longer to navigate
• The favourites bar scales itself in an ugly fashion when it a lot of favourites are added, it could spread horizontally without ugliness
• it usually takes more than the usual amount of clicks or keyboard actions to get slightly out of the ordinary programs running.
• Task switching takes more effort.

The whole experience is a drag. If I wanted someone to tell me how I needed a low functional interface I’d spend my money on an apple computer.

Maybe I am too used to having things the way I want them. Gnome 3 is weird. Loads of configurations have lost a GUI front-end.  I thought Linux was for people into computing. Gnome 3 is designed for people who have slabs and crap like that. Well that’s great but I’ve got desktop and laptop.

Thankfully there is a fall back position in the guise of XFCE.

The best thing about XFCE is that it looks and functions similar to gnome 2,  so there are lots of configurable features and there is usually a GUI for it.

So Gnome 3: Good luck! may god bless you; enjoy your journey.

sudo gedit /etc/aliases

then change the line
#root: marc

find /home/user_name/Music > file_list_text_file_name.txt

gunzip < yourfilenamehere.tar.gz > OutputFileName.tar.part

under fedora 11 look in /usr/share/applications/ for the file gnome-nautilus-folder-handler and remove the line with the semi colon near the end.

setup sudo:

echo 'monkeymike ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm


sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm


sudo yum install yumex yum-plugin-fastestmirror espeak mc stellarium kdeedu codeblocks easytag gparted bluefish rkward k3b gnome-tweak-tool codeblocks htop stellarium  gpodder vlc scite easytag amarok phpmyadmin mysql-workbench kile xine evince evince-dvi p7zip unrar qcomicbook phpmyadmin mariadb filezilla audacious audacious-plugins-freeworld* xine-lib-extras-freeworld alacarte

sudo yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck -y https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

…and possibly:

SAGE math (don't forget to copy over the .sage directory from /home)
Game Menu
wine
kmod nvidia
GoogleEarth

and make sure some stuff is running:

sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
sudo systemctl start mysqld
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service

oh and how to run a jar, minecraft for instance:

java -jar Minecraft.jar

Either “su” and leave off the sudo or make sure you’re user account is a sudo’er


sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/librender.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libauth.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libminizip.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libevll.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libmeasure.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/liblayer.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libflightsim.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libnavigate.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libgooglesearch.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libinput_plugin.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libgps.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libbasicingest.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libminizip.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libmoduleframework.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libgoogleearth_lib.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libcollada.so'


Keep and eye on SELinux after to make sure any others haven’t been added.

Download the required 32 bit packages (to let you run it on a 64 bit system) use:
http://bigjim-network.be/2009/06/24/google-earth-on-fedora-11-64-bit/