How To Install Thunderbird 2 on Fedora; Fedora Development Respository Broken for Fedora Core 6

June 9th, 2008 Thunderbird doesn't provide an in-built way to export and save emails & attachments in bulk. Unfortunately the forwarding emails as attachment functionality is broken on the receiving end (Thunderbird email client).

May 14th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 ships with Firefox 1.5.x version. Firefox 2.0.x is currently in development repository of Fedora Core 6.

September 14th, 2009 Before you read, here is a bit of warning: Do not install the nVidia driver that you can download from nVidia.com. The driver may install fine but may not work as you expect.

June 7th, 2008 First impressions on Thunderbird 2. Is it a must upgrade? Thunderbird 2 is much more responsive than Thunderbird 1.5.

June 22nd, 2007 Fedora Core team, in its infinite wisdom, decided to ship a so-called "free" (but essentially useless and crappy; pardon my French) JVM (read gcj) with its installation. Not only that this "free" JVM is integrated with java softwares from Fedora repositories making them pretty hard to use too.

July 17th, 2008 You need to install an extension the in Mozilla Thunderbird to get new email notifications. Here is the steps in details: 1.

August 4th, 2008 You may see the following error in Fedora 8 while starting / restarting the network (service network restart): FATAL: Module off not found. Let's see how we can fix this.

April 11th, 2007 RSSOwl is a high quality cross-platform (written in java; uses swt library) RSS / Atom Feed reader which is a superior free alternative to Newzcrawler or Feedreader for linux. Fedora Core 6 provides an RPM distribution for it (doesn't work) which you can install simply by: yum install rssowl However as stated before it doesn't work.

June 9th, 2008 Thunderbird 2 added the exciting feature to automatically respond to messages (yeah, I can hear Microsoft Outlook folks shaking their heads in irritation, we had it for years in MS Outlook) with an email template. Let's see how we can set it up.

August 28th, 2007 This is a news to me! I am using LayeredTech dedicated server for over a year and just today while browsing their new encompass console I found they have three nice buttons labelled Reboot, Power On & Power Off. Obviously I tried and it worked.

September 14th, 2009 You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them.

April 5th, 2008 A common error while configuring (running ./configure) software in Linux systems is - error: C++ compiler cannot create executables. The solution, not surprisingly is simple: Install the package which adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection - gcc-c++.

August 7th, 2007 Fedora Core developers make it rather hard to install and properly configure Sun's JVM. All said and done Sun's JVM (comes with JDK) is the best JVM implementation out there; not to mention that it is the reference implementation.

August 21st, 2007 A guide to easily disable IPv6 support on your Linux workstation / server: 1. Add the two lines, if not already present, to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off For Fedora 7 you should add the command to blacklist instead as shown below: blacklist net-pf-10 Note: I haven't personally tested on Fedora 7.

May 31st, 2008 Login as or su to root and run: yum -y install pcre zlib lighttpd That's it folks! Note: The -y saves you from ok'ing the download & installation.