After installing urxvt and using it as my default terminal application I detected that it's not possible to type ñ character.

I solved the problem setting my locale to en_US.UTF-8:

$ sudo /usr/bin/localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Then it could be required to change the next file:

 /etc/sysconfig/i18n

adding these lines:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_LANG=en_us.UTF-8
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Finally, it works on my Fedora!

Sometimes my lpd is blocked launching the following error:

StateMessage /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd failed

After restarting cups the problem is still there.

I found a simple solution, just change the /etc/cups/printers.conf file. First stop your cups daemon:

$ sudo service cups stop

Then you should change the file:

$  sudo sed -i -e '/StateMessage .*lpd failed/d' \\ 
    -e 's/State Stopped/State \\
    Idle/' /etc/cups/printers.conf

Then restart your cups daemon:

$ sudo service cups start

It works properly on Fedora

I've recently installed Emacs 24 on my Fedora workstation. I followed these simple steps to do that:

$ git clone git://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs.git
$ cd emacs
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/emacs24 --without-makeinfo  
       --with-xpm=no  --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no 
       --with-tiff=no
$ make
$ sudo make install

Then, I executed:

$ sudo ln -s /opt/emacs24/bin/emacs /usr/bin/emacs

... and...

$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.0.93.1
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Voila!!

We always should apply security updates for our operating system. Usually, we don't want to update all binary packages for our system, just we want to update those packages that need an update for security reasons. Fedora offers us a simple and effective way to do that thanks to yum-plugin-security. Let's see how to use it.

First, you need to install the mentioned plugin:

$ sudo yum install yum-plugin-security

Then we can use it for finding out which packages requires a security update:

$ yum --security check-update

Also, you can list all security updates available for your operating system version:

$ yum list-sec

Finally, the following command will install all security updates:

$ yum update --security