vwbusguy -Scott Williams-: Firefox Minefield in Fedora 9 : Howto and Review
I am writing this post with Mozilla Firefox Minefield. Minefield is like Firefox’s snapshot window to the future, and from all I can tell, it’s simply awesome. I’m playing with 3.1b2pre at the moment. All the rumors about it being faster… are generally true.
It shaved about 3 seconds off of loading CNN.com and news.google.org compared to 3.0.2 on my home broadband connection. All of my add-ons and plugins (like AdBlock-Plus and adobe flash) carried over from 3.0.2 and work. Best of all, for being an ‘alpha’, it is already pretty stable. But because it’s based on a nightly compile, I can’t promise you the same.
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How To Install it on Fedora 9 to play with:
1. Download that tar.bz2 from the nightly compile site.
2. Extract it to tmp.
3. Sign in as root (’su -’) in a terminal.
4. As root in terminal: ‘mv /tmp/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-minefield’
5. In terminal: ‘exit’ - back to regular user
6. Close all instances of firefox.
7. As user in terminal: ‘/usr/lib/firefox-minefield/firefox-bin &’
8. Enjoy!
Posted in Fedora, Freedom Tagged: Fedora, firefox, linux, mozilla, open source, software, technology
Fri, 24 Oct 2008
Valent Turkovic: Bluetooth GPS Fedora howto
If you have bluetooth GPS dongle that you have laying around, or can borrow one from somebody, and like driving a bike or a car around then this is the guide for you.
You need to have bluetooth wireless chip already installed on your laptop. If you have a laptop or a desktop without bluetooth you can buy and use USB bluetooth dongle.
You can check if you have a bluetooth and that it is working correctly using this command:
hcitool dev
Then let’s make sure you have bluetooth service running:
service bluetooth status
if it is not running just start it with:
service bluetooth start
Turn on your bluetooth GPS dongle and find its bluetooth mac address with this command:
hcitool scan
Scanning …
00:1E:EE:00:11:22 LG KU990
00:02:78:99:FF:00 SJ GPS
00:12:EE:55:00:FF Device01
If you find more than one bluetooth device you should know the name of your GPS dongle. My GPS dongle has a “GPS” in its name so it is easy to catch its mac address: 00:02:78:99:FF:00 (SJ GPS)
You need to install gpsd and setup bluetooth config files, so let’s first install gpsd:
yum install gpsd -y
Then you need to edit bluetooth config file so that gpsd connects automatically to GPS bluetooth dongle.
su -
gedit -etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf
and add these lines:
rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;
# Bluetooth address of the device
device 00:12:EE:55:00:FF;
# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;
# Description of the connection
comment “GPS Bluetooth dongle”;
}
After reboot check if you have /dev/rfcomm0 device with:
ls -al /dev/rfcomm0
If after reboot (or you don’t wan’t to reboot) you still don’t have /dev/rfcomm0 then just issue this command:
rfcomm bind rfcomm0
Now start gpsd daemon:
gpsd /dev/rfcomm0
Now you can start having fun! :)
Install gps applications like tangogps, gpsdrive and gpsbabel.
su -
yum install tangogps gpsdrive gpsbabel
Now just start tangogps and gpsdrive and enjoy…
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