November 9, 2008 – 11:18 am
I had that problem. This worked for me:
yum install libflashsupport
Restart Firefox.
And, to test it out, I played this little toe-tapper:
Your choice of music is up to you.
-k-
Fedora
November 1, 2008 – 3:33 pm
One post for the price of two; that’s how we survive these troubled times. I’m preparing to upgrade my production Linux laptop1 to Fedora 10 Beta. The other devices2 all happily, and mostly painlessly, run F10 now. They were easy to upgrade, each of them not having any data to speak of.
The [...]
October 26, 2008 – 1:27 pm
My little Dell mini has, as do all my laptops, a Synaptics TouchPad. I hate touch pads; I find them difficult to control, hard to click, and generally to be a real PITA. I prefer to use a Targus mini-USB mouse for pointing and clicking. The Targus mouse works well, but the [...]
October 19, 2008 – 11:41 am
This weekend, I managed to get my Dell Inspiron Mini 9, christened ebony, up and running reliably on Fedora 10 Beta. I’ve had the Mini for a little more than a week, and immediately installed Fedora, using the Fedora Live USB1. The initial F10 install was a reasonably smooth process; sufficiently so that I [...]
October 11, 2008 – 3:59 pm
Being a geek for hire has its rewards. Sometimes. these rewards include meeting luminaries in the Open Source Community. Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting two such folk.
On Tuesday, I shook the hand of Paul Frields , current chairman of the Fedora Project Board. In just the few short minutes [...]
October 4, 2008 – 3:40 pm
Betwixt and between the Honey Do tasks assigned by MLB, I’ve managed to get the Fedora 10(Cambridge) Beta installed on my relatively new Toshiba Satellite laptop, named vagabond1. I’m running the 64-bit version in all its glory, and so far I’m liking what I’m seeing.
The much heralded Network Manager had heretofore just [...]
September 27, 2008 – 2:57 pm
Tuesday, September 30, is the new release date for the Fedora 10(Cambridge) Beta.
I’ll download and burn the iso, back up my home directory, and perform a fresh install.
Let’s light this candle!1
-k-
fedora, fedora10
1 It ain’t work, if you enjoy doing it.
September 24, 2008 – 6:34 am
Happy 5th Birthday, Fedora. My distro of choice. A peek into what may be included in RHEL. Hackable, but amazingly wonderful and useful out of the box.
Thanks, developers, engineers, ambassadors, and to the entire Fedora Project. You’re keeping one old geek young and interested.
-k-
fedora
Just downloaded HotSSH, a Gnome front-end for OpenSSH, and the associated md5 checksum file.
A quick
cfv -t md5 -f hotssh-0.2.5.md5sum hotssh-0.2.5.tar.gz
and I validated my download. Much better method than doing an md5sum myself and then squinting to compare checksums.
-k-
August 3, 2008 – 12:56 pm
From my Fedora Rawhide feed, cfv, a nifty md5/sha1/a_host_of_others checksum validator and generator. cfv can recurse directories, generating or validating checksums at will.
There are so manny command line options that I’m having difficulty absorbing it all right now. Look at this:
[knelson@gypsy ~]$ cfv –help
cfv v1.18.2 - Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Matthew Mueller - GPL [...]
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