Install the proper packages.

$ yum install xvkbd xbindkeys

Create a .xbindkeysrc in your home folder with default settings.

$ xbindkeys --defaults >> ~/.xbindkeysrc

Add this to the bottom of the .xbindkeysrc you just created.

"/usr/bin/xvkbd  -text "\[BackSpace]""
       m:0x0 + b:8
"/usr/bin/xvkbd  -text "\[Return]""
       m:0x0 + b:9

Autostart xbindkeys when you login.

ln -s /usr/bin/xbindkeys ~/.kde/Autostart

Ben's Big Game

Steve and Leah

If you have any suggestions of places to visit along the way, please leave them in the comments below. I am open to all ideas.

For the Google Earth users, you can use download this kml for a detailed route.

• New York
• Philadelphia
• Effingham, IL
• Saint Louis, MO
• Tulsa
• Austin

The Capital Building

It was a cloudy rainy morning when I went there and was able to get a few good shots. Very sad place.

here are some photos…

this is the route taking 15 North up to Montana and the heading over on 90 West back through the northern part of Idaho into Washington…

Fortunately i was able to get some good shots of the children.

loading up the passat and getting ready to go… i cant believe everything fits in the trunk… i must be forgetting something…

current information from the dash… and here we go!!!

This is a cute little trick to load an icon set into your iPhone for use with SMS messages. Follow the directions below to enable them.

Delete the Spell Number application (if you want) because the emoji icons will still be there.

First be sure you have the needed tools

• yum-utils
• rpm-build

Then download the latest kernel source

yumdownloader --source kernel

Once that is downloaded lets setup our local rpm tree

rpmdev-setuptree

Extract and install the source

rpm -Uvh kernel-x.y.zz.ii-jjj.fcx.src.rpm

Execute the “%prep” stage from the spec file. Normally this involves unpacking the sources and applying any patches.

rpmbuild -bp --target=`uname -m` ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel.spec

At this point we can setup our configuration to apply during the build.

cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-x.y.zz/linux-x.y.zz.`uname -m`/
make oldconfig
make menuconfig

copy your configuration to the sources folder.

cp .config ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/config-`uname -m`

and you are ready to build

rpmbuild -bb --with baseonly --without debuginfo --target=`uname -m` ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel.spec

kernel-firmware
if you need to build the firmware module then change this line to this in the

~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel.spec

%define with_firmware  %{?_with_firmware:     0} %{?!_with_firmware:     1}

Creating Patches
if you’d like to create a working copy to apply any custom test or patches, this will allow you to create a patch for your build.

cp -r ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.26/linux-2.6.26.x86_64 ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.26.dist
cp -al ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.26.dist ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.26.new
diff -uNrp ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.26/vanilla/{file} ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.26.new/{file} > {file}.patch

The qdbus tool works quite similar to how dcop worked, e.g. if you invoke it
without any parameters it will list all processes (actually all D-Bus
connections [1]).

If you pass one such name as its first parameter, it will list all objects
inside the application. If you add one object it will list all its methods.

So a starting point for your DCOP call above would be

qdbus org.kde.akregator /Akregator org.kde.akregator.part.addFeedsToGroup

So with this we can come up with a sh script that will add feeds to Akregator when clicking on the rss icon in the location bar.

#!/bin/bash

# check to see if akregator is running
# if not start akregator
if [ -z `/sbin/pidof akregator`]
then
	akregator
fi

for f in "${@/feed/http}"; do

  # 4.x qdbus call
  qdbus org.kde.akregator /Akregator \
  org.kde.akregator.part.addFeedsToGroup "$f" "Firefox Subscribed"

  # 3.x dcop call
  # dcop akregator AkregatorIface addFeedsToGroup "[" "$f" "]" "Firefox Subscribe"
done

You can copy and paste the above code into a file with executable permissions and associate the rss type with this script from within firefox.

Below you can download a file and put it somewhere that firefox has access.