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No YouTube Audio in Fedora 10?

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-
Update: Commenter jp points out that libflashsupport is not needed for Flash 10. I’m running Flash 9, 32 bit version.
Fedora

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Be Smarter than the Device You’re Operating

November 1, 2008 – 4:30 pm

Here’s how not to invoke rdiff-backup, presuming your USB drive is mounted on /media/disk:
rdiff-backup –force / /media/disk
That’s how I did it the first time; I thought that backup was running an awfully long time, and that there was a helluva lot more stuff on the USB drive than even existed on the drive being backed [...]

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Weekend Geekage, and Command of the Day

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 [...]

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Turning off Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 10 Beta

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 [...]

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Command of the Day

October 26, 2008 – 10:58 am

Casual and not-so-casual readers of this blog know I’m a Linux/Unix guy. I fire up the work peecee for e-mail; since moving to my new location a month ago, I don’t even do that anymore. My new cube has only one network connnection, and that is used by my Linux workstation, running a Gnome [...]

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Autumnal Weekends

October 19, 2008 – 1:14 pm

A crispness in the air.
Frost warning for overnight; time to drain the outside faucets.
Tweakin’ up the Dell Mini.
Taking apart a fan in the bedroom for my little bride so she can clean it.Damn fan resembles a Chia pet. Even in the best of homes, etc.
NASCAR from Martinsville, the nicest little track on the circuit. Beautiful [...]

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More Weekend Geekage

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 [...]

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Amongst Greatness

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 [...]

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Weekend Geekage

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 [...]

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Almost Beta Time

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.

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