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If you are also suffering from the dark Dir Colours (Colours shown in output of ls) on Black Background on your Fedora Distro, do following:
cp /etc/DIR_COLORS ~/.dircolors
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Has been launched.

I used Flock for the first time today, I am impressed. It’s a nice socializer and comes with capabilities of Firefox. Amazingly beautiful.
Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: flock, firefox, social networking

It’s become a common question right now that why FireFox 2 is not available on the Fedora Core 6 default package repositories? The answer seems to be on the FireFox 2 page of the Fedora Project Wiki. A small quote from this page:

For a variety of reasons, we are not planning to update to Firefox [...]

Today I installed FC6 on my Compaq Presario V2000, had to do some tweaks to get the WiFi running. Here is what I did:
1) Install Livna RPM Repository information:
$ rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
2) Install ipw2200 firmware:
$ yum install ipw2200-firmware
3) Add following to /etc/modprobe.conf:
options ipw2200 hwcrypto=1 associate=0
4) Add ESSID and CHANNEL in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:

ESSID=
CHANNEL=

5) Add the KEY [...]

I never took a look at any of the Live CDs, but today Ubuntu  Live CD helped me write this post. I don’t know what heppened to the OSs installed on my Lappy. Trying to figure that out.
Ubuntu Live CD Works.

FOSS.IN is here again, going to be organized from Nov 24 to 26 at IISC, Bangalore. Register Now before you have to pay double the registration fee.

Linux powered Moto Ming (Motorola A1200) was launched in India two weeks back. It’s one of the latest Linux based Moto phones. Phone looks awesome and is too delicate to handle. After beeing in my hands for two weeks it has already got a few scratches . 2 MP camera, Smooth rubber coated body, [...]

When I bought a Linksys WRT54G Version 5 around 10 months back I was hittng my head against the wall after learning that it runs on VxWorks instead of Linux. The playground I expected was lost. But Thanks to Jeremy who has written a VxWorks Killer and nicely documented it, I flashed my unit’s firmware [...]

Brandon Hutchison has made excellant Fedora Helper which helps you install all the Packages which you always loved to have. Mplayer, Flash Plugin, JRE, Acrobat Reeader, Limewire and many more in one go. Just download this helper and run it and see the magic. It uses the Livna rpm repository as well as original sources [...]