This should be a no-brainer for anyone carrying anything important around on a laptop.
IMHO, relying on a user password (like a login password) is not a great idea, since anyone with physical access to the disk can get to your data easily. OTOH, using disk encryption seems like overkill – since if [...]

Just a quickie…
To make SciTE work with scss files (which are enhanced css files), just add the following information:
In /usr/share/scite/SciTEGlobal.properties (on a Fedora machine at least, YMMV) :

;*.scss to the end of source.files=

and in /usr/share/scite/css.properties the top of the file should read :

filter.css=CSS (css scss)|*.css;*.scss|
lexer.*.css=css
lexer.*.scss=css

sass (and its successor scss) is a really nice CSS meta-language, enabling nicer hierarchies of classes to be built (much more maintainable).  The transformation software is written in ruby, and provided by the ruby gem haml.
The first step when using SCSS file, is usually to recast existing CSS files into semantically equivalent SCSS files (when [...]

These direct steps (using the openjdk, not the Sun one) are confirmed to work…
Below, the following are our (typical) values :

MY_ANDROID_SDK : /path-to-android-sdk-installation-root/android-sdk-linux_86
MY_TITANIUM_DEVELOPER_DIR : /path-to-titanium-developer-installation-root/Titanium Developer-1.2.1
MY_TITANIUM_FILES_DIR : /path-to-my-home-directory/.titanium
MY_TITANIUM_SDK : /any-suitable-directory/

Note that MY_TITANIUM_FILES_DIR is the default created/used by the Titanium Developer program, which one runs from MY_TITANIUM_DEVELOPER_DIR using ./Titanium Developer
Check that the build tools are [...]

Requirement : Get the 32-bit Android SDK to work on a 64-bit Fedora machine (Fedora 11 tested below), using the standard openjdk rather than Sun Java. No eclipse required, since development will be done using Titanium.
32-bit libraries are required. To clear out existing libraries (only if you know you haven’t got anything else [...]

Create /etc/udev/rules.d/91-android.rules with the contents :

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", SYMLINK+="android_adb", MODE="0666", OWNER="rmbsanal"

Then

/etc/init.d/udev-post reload

and re-plug in your Android phone. That’s it.

Having to dual-boot into WinXP or Vista to run a tax program once a year is really bothersome. So, this year (the night before taxes were due), I set on the path of submitting my taxes without leaving Fedora.
I’d used TaxAct before (business and personal), so it was natural to want to [...]

Situation
I want to have ‘rsync’ run when a user presses a button on the webserver. The software stack is as follows (though this was largely a red-herring, see below) :

Fedora – server
lighttpd – webserver
Twiki – intranet setup
perl – plugin language for Twiki
bash – perl launches a script to run the rsync
sudo – to ‘change [...]

NB : There’s even more information in the following excellent guide : http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way
But there are some differences for Fedora that are worth spelling out.
Central Repository setup
First install gitosis :

central# yum install gitosis

Then create a dumb git user – noone will be logging in as this user: it’s just so that everything can be centralized :

central# [...]

Much of this is adapted from the text of http://schattenschreiber.org/diary/2009/05/20/installing-the-funambol-bundled-server-under-ubuntu-server-amd64-mysql-lighttpd/
Installing funambol isn’t as easy as it might be – mostly because it ships with it’s own java/jre version, which I figure is needless duplication. Here’s a little step-by-step guide for getting it installed nicely on Fedora. You will need some command line literacy [...]