Archive of entries posted on March 2006

Install Fedora Core 5 Linux Without Burning CD

28 March 2006, 9:28 am

I tried to install fedora core 5 without burning the iso into cds. Normally I install them and then the cds are of no use. I use compelete install and I upgrade or install new packages directly from the interent. This way I have fedora core 2, 3 ,4 cds sitting idle with me. Oh [...]

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My New iPod nano

21 March 2006, 12:12 am

My newest possession is the iPod Nano…

The music sounds really great…!!! I am really enjoying the quality of it. Its so sleek and the performance is really good.
More details about iPod nano

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TamilNadu Politics

14 March 2006, 12:48 pm

Politics is a big time comedy…

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Configure Wireless in Fedora Core 4 for Hp zd8000

10 March 2006, 2:36 am

I made a big mistake of installing ndiswrapper for fedora core 4 using yum. It downloaded the latest kernel and source etc and compile ndiswrapper and I was not able to update any wifi drivers for my HP Pavilion zd8000.
After much struggle for so many hours I removed ndiswrapper using the yum. I wanted [...]

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Update Firefox 1.5.0.1 in RH Fedora Core 4

4 March 2006, 11:39 am

I really wanted to upgrade my Firefox in FC4. When I tried using yum it updated Firefox 1.0.4 to 1.0.7. I tried adding extra mirrors in yum configuration but no use.
Latter I found a manual method to update Firefox.
su or login as root first.
# wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ .. /firefox-1.5.tar.gz
# cd /usr/lib
# tar xzvf ~/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
# mv [...]

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