...and their server is down.....
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DOH !
Oh well I haven't got time to install it now anyway, I'll wait for the "Zod" frenzy to finish I think ;)
Yum Fun !
This has been on my to do list for a while... I have finally converted my little reporsitory of rpm's into a proper yum repo !
The old xfce repo has been mergered into a new Whitebox repo, which in fact can be used for CentOS, WBEL or Red Hat ...
Firefox i386 on x86_64 rpm - ( Fedora Core 5 )
There are loads of posts on this and they all miss out a couple of pieces of information
How ?
Well I downloaded the latest firefox fromfedora's update page, then I ran: (as root)rpm -ev firefoxthen from the directory I downloaded firefox to:
rpm -ivh --nodeps firefox-VERSION- ...Fedora Core 5 Screen Shots
[ ](http://linshots.com/index.php?id=17)News on digg shows that FC5 Test2 is out !!.
Now I don't usually care about test releases - FC is unstable enough ;) - but what is cool is the screen shots with the new FC ...
Feed is not a registered protocol - Firefox , gnome and Fedora Core
I've put up with this error message for some time now:
*Feed: is not a registered protocol*I run a firefox on gnome on fedora core, installation on my laptop. No matter how much googleing I did, I could not work out which part of the puzzle was at ...
wxPython2.6 for Fedora
I'm in the process of trying to get
working on Fedora Core 4 in the usual chase the dependency scenario you
can easily get into I needed to build an wxPython package.I hope these are of use:
FC3 X11 On a Sony PCG-C1F
So I've been clearing out some stuff and I found another thing of use.
When I had a Sony Vaio, I remember the most annoying thing to get working was X11, specifically finding the right Fedora Core xorg.conf. I've uploaded my working xorg.conf here , now if ...
B4 I forget - SSL XMMS
A while ago I put some effort into getting SSL support working with XMMS on Fedora Core 3, unfortunatley I didn't get very far :(
Ages a go Dustin Kirkland was kind enough to help me out (he wrote an SSL patch for XMMS), but I never got a change ...
Downloader for X... for FC3
ok, so it's been a while since I've needed to rebuild an rpm, I guess it just goes to show what a good job those repo-boys are doing !
Well I've just noticed Solaris 10 is available and I needed a download manager. Normally the built in download ...
Gnome VPN Dialer
Found something cool today, a GUI for cisco's LINUX vpn client.
I've tested it & it works as expected, check out the screenshot.
