XpsnQt uses PostgreSQL as its database so “How to install PostgreSQL on Fedora 33” became a question worth answering. Once again, most of the stuff you find online is horribly out of date. Open a terminal and type the following to see just how much PostgreSQL stuff there is in the repos. That is going to scroll a while because it is a lot! The actual install is accomplished via this terminal command. Always install … How to install PostgreSQL on Fedora 33Read more
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A Faster Hard Drive Makes Your Computer Slower
It sounds like the most counter intuitive statement one could make. A faster hard drive makes your computer slower. If you understand how and why you will understand it is a fact. A faster hard drive really can make your computer slower. This is more fallout from my Manjaro experiments. You really should read the previous post about the resume error on boot to get a full background no how we got here. I’ve always … A Faster Hard Drive Makes Your Computer SlowerRead more
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Boinc on Majaro
Historically, Boinc on Majaro has been a trail of tears for most users. Most other distros do a fine job of packaging Boinc for their flavor of Linux, but Majaro, not so much. There is always a bunch of manual tasks one has to do to make things actually work. Most of these are cloaked in mystery and most of the Websites you find will have out of date information. Search engines – the last … Boinc on MajaroRead more
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So You Can’t Get Your Qt Models to Work With QML?
This particular rant was started by my looking to divert my mind by answering a question on StackOverflow. Never ever ever go to StackOverflow. Kids today just don’t know squat and there is nothing you can do to help them. Let’s start with my initial response an a slightly improved image. QML is just a hand polished turd. There is no polite way to put it. Qt made a desperate ploy to attract script kiddies … So You Can’t Get Your Qt Models to Work With QML?Read more
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Github is trashed this morning
Gotta love it when you are greeted with an image like that! I tried from multiple computers and multiple browsers. Other websites look and work fine. Github is just trashed. In case you cannot see the featured image. I work up early and had a couple of hours to kill before I needed to leave. Planned on finishing a Fedora 33 dev VM for Diamond (possibly Red Diamond soon) and boom! Can’t get my git. … Github is trashed this morningRead more