Firefox: unsorted bookmarks - doesn't work
by Zoltan Szabo
Hi all,
I would like to have manually sorted bookmarks under Firefox (version
2.0.0.10).
Earlier I could achieve this by "Bookmarks=>Organize
Bookmarks...=>View=>Unsorted" and then dragging & dropping items
(files/folders) to their new position under Bookmarks Manager. Now,
this method doesn't work: I can drag & drop files, but folders remain
in alpabetical order.
Looking at my Firefox configurations (about:config), my settings are:
1)browser.bookmarks.sort.resource =
"rdf:http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#Name"
2)bowser.bookmarks.sort.direction = "descending" (which should result in
unsorted bookmarks according to
"http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.bookmarks.sort.direction")
I also tried to start Firefox with a new profile (deleted
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox)--no success.
Has anyone else had the same problem? Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Zoltan
16 years, 4 months
totem, rhythmbox won't work without GNOME?
by Danny Yee
Whenever I try to run totem or rhythmbox, it
* changes my root window background (to a dark blue background I
assume is the Fedora/GNOME default)
* starts gnome-screensaver, gnome-vfs-daemon, gnome-settings-daemon
(which will cause my X session to hang hard if I don't
kill gnome-screensaver, as it interacts badly with
xscreensaver which I'm running.)
* crashes firefox
I'm not running GNOME, but a lightweight standalone window manager
(9wm). Has anyone else seen anything like this? Is there any way
to run totem, etc. without running GNOME?
Danny.
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16 years, 4 months
RE:YUM failures
by don vogt
If this is a dupe, I apologize. I am fooling with
different mailers. If Microsoft buys Yahoo, I will
need a new host.
I am not sure who you wanted the output from but here
is mine.
rpm -qa|grep xine
xine-lib-1.1.10-1.fc7
gxine-mozplugin-0.5.11-14.fc7
xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.10-1.lvn7
totem-xine-2.18.3-1.lvn7
gxine-0.5.11-14.fc7
xine-0.99.5-1.lvn7
16 years, 4 months
Re: Good bye: Res has a potty-mouth.
by Kelly Miller
Res wrote:
> it does, I've witnessed the "in crowd" do this for years, look what
> they did recently to Karl, look what did a year ago to a prominent
> member of this group who left to go to Ubuntu, this group of leopards
> changes its spots so many times it _is_ actually funny.
You mean ESR? He switches distros faster than anyone I've ever seen;
and "what they did" was complain that he turned leaving Fedora for
Ubuntu into a gigantic Internet flame war for no reason. And uh, I
don't know about you, but most people are happy to explain how to do
something. However, what most people DON'T like are people who choose
not to listen and continue to ask the same questions they've already had
answered. After a while, people decide they're not going to listen
anyway and either stop giving advice or ask the person in question to
stop posting, as it's filling the list with junk posts and making it
hard for people to find what is worth looking for.
And as for this "in crowd", if it exists I haven't seen it. As of now
no one has modded my posts, told me to get lost, or done anything except
have civilized conversations. I'm wondering if your perception of this
"in crowd" thing is caused because you'd rather not face the truth; that
people don't like your comments because you're always negative, always
swearing, always All-Capsing, and eventually people get sick of it.
Again, why do you stay here? I haven't seen anything from you in a year
and a half except rants about absolutely everything that has been done
in Fedora. Is there a reason you stay here to scream about things that
you and only you seem to have issues with? Do you believe in the
screaming crowd axiom or something? When I had this many issues with a
distro I was using, I switched to another one. It really isn't THAT hard...
16 years, 4 months
Re: Difference between IDE and SCSI ??
by bc98kinney
Hi;
Can someone briefly explain to me the difference between an IDE (ATA)
and a SCSI device. After having done due diligence with google searches
etc., I am still in a quandary. Nothing I read seems to be consistent.
Every time I think I have it figured out, I read a reference that calls
for or lists IDE devices that I think should be a SCSI reference and
vice versa. Even going to the various standards sites doesn't clarify
it for me. In fact it makes it more confusing.
Therefore, can someone explain, in plain language, how I should use the
terms IDE or PATA, and SCSI correctly with regards to a current
computer? What specific attribute of a device or bus does each term
apply to?
Given below are some questions that spring to mind. They may be
mis-formed questions and therefore need not be answered, but they may
demonstrate where my confusion and misunderstanding are coming into
play.
e.g.
Does IDE refer to the physical device?
Or, specifically just to the bus used?
Or, to the driver for the device?
Or, the type of interface (plug)?
Does SCSI refer to a set of protocols used when designing the device?
Or, to a specific driver design?
Can you have an IDE device without SCSI?
Or, can you have a SCSI device without it being IDE?
Below, I have listed a few of the sites I have visited with the
definitions given to show I have found the history and some attempts at
an explanation. I long ago learnt that any manual's reference to IDE or
SCSI usually simply meant some reference to my hard drive. I am aware
it could also mean my CD or a DVD, but usually it is a reference to a
HD.
I like to use automobiles for analogies to computers. The data storage
subsystem can be compared to any subsystem in a car, whether it be fuel,
ignition, electrical, or seating.
For simplicity's sake, let's just focus on the data storage subsystem:
the hard disk drive. IDE and SCSI are two different, and incompatible
data storage subsystems, and the differences can be compare to VHS vs Beta.
Similarly, (IMO), the technically superior system has lost out.
I still cannot fathom why modern computers still do not use SCSI.
In the old days, computers needed a controller card to manage how the
information it needed to store was physically stored on the hard disk drive.
This controller actually told the drive how to physically manage the placement
of the data on the drive.
SCSI changed that in some respects, in that the connected drives themselves
had some "smarts" built into them, and managed the data associated with it
by itself. The controller card simply passed commands to the drives that
told it what to store or what to retrieve. SCSI offered the ability to hook
up a maximum of seven hard disk drives in a daisy chain fashion.
But then came AOL, cheap computers, and droves of dumbshits who found it
difficult to handle the ability to keep track of the requisite drive numbering,
and this, combined with most users' lack of a need for seven hard drives
provided the incentive to create a simpler, and possibly cheaper, way of
connecting disk drives to your system.
The result was IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), a system that allowed your
computer to interface directly with the drives, by putting the "smarts" right
on the drive itself. This system provided the ability to connect up to two
drives on a channel, designated "master" and "slave." The IDE system later
was renamed "ATA," and I cannot tell you what the acronym stands for, but for
all intents and purposes IDE = ATA.
With one exception, both SCSI and IDE/ATA are electronically parallel systems.
SCSI is NOT serial, except for fiber channel.
So, to answer your main questions:
>Does IDE refer to the physical device?
>Or, specifically just to the bus used?
IDE, or ATA, or in most historic cases, PATA, refers to a physical and/or
electrical bus that provides connectivity for drives that are designed for
that bus.
>Or, to the driver for the device?
Possibly, in certain contexts. But strictly speaking, no. It is a physical
and electrical specification.
Or, the type of interface (plug)?
Yes.
In terms of the operating system, the driver must know how to "speak" IDE
in order to save/retrieve data on an IDE device, and will use a different
driver
to communicate with a SCSI controller, just as it uses another driver to
communicate with your video, chipset, processor, and other subsystems.
I can understand your confusion, because Fedora has begun labeling *all*
internal storage devices as "sd", as in "SCSI device", whether or not it
actually is on a SCSI or IDE chain.
Hope this helps.
--bobcat
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16 years, 4 months
Re: firefox won't launch
by Peter Lesterhuis
>
> In order to visit a secured website I tried to import my certificate.
> > I need to visit the website for my job. Until now I have to reboot
> > into Windows and I am getting tired of having to do that. I was
> > issued to download software from VerSign and then restart the
> > browser. So I did. Now firefox doesn't start at all.
> > I removed ff en then reinstalled, but it still won't lauch. Konqueror
> > does though.
> > Does anyone have a clue?
>
>
> After you launch it, the process keeps running but the window does not
> open or it terminates by itself right after launch?
> What does it say when you launch it from the console?
>
When I launchit from the console nothing happens at all. When I launch
from the icon on the gnome panel there is some action for about 5
seconds and then it stops.
Peter
16 years, 4 months
F8: syslog.conf?
by Michael D. Berger
On my new F8 installation, I see no /etc/syslog.conf .
Is it somewhere else? Is there another file with its
function?
Thanks,
Mike.
16 years, 4 months
Rotate screen?
by Colin Paul Adams
Is it possible to rotate the GNOME desktop through 90 degress
(portrait mode)?
--
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
16 years, 4 months
F8 Flash CNN
by Clodoaldo Neto
The Flash video on CNN plays for some seconds and then goes blank.
Youtube videos play nice. I have already read all this thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg03541.html
My system is 32 bits:
$ uname -a
Linux dkt 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Jan 14 21:37:30 EST 2008 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux
This are my plugins directories:
$ ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
total 1488
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2008-01-24 08:15 libflashplayer.so ->
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 2008-01-23 21:38 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/opt/jre1.6/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281240 2007-10-15 15:09 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281496 2007-10-15 15:09 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281528 2007-10-15 15:09 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 283220 2007-10-15 15:09 mplayerplug-in.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281816 2007-10-15 15:09 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40696 2007-10-06 12:07 nphelix.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5086 2007-10-06 12:07 nphelix.xpt
$ ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/
total 628
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2008-01-25 08:04 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2008-01-25 08:04 nphelix.xpt ->
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2008-01-25 08:04 npwrapper.so ->
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80584 2008-01-25 08:04 nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root cpn 80584 2008-01-25 09:25
nswrapper_32_32.mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root cpn 80584 2008-01-25 09:25
nswrapper_32_32.mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root cpn 80584 2008-01-25 09:25
nswrapper_32_32.mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root cpn 80584 2008-01-25 09:25 nswrapper_32_32.mplayerplug-in.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root cpn 80584 2008-01-25 09:25
nswrapper_32_32.mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80584 2008-01-25 08:04 nswrapper_32_32.nphelix.so
I installed from the adobe repository:
$ ll /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179 2007-07-25 17:45 adobe-linux-i386.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1907 2007-12-12 19:30 fedora-development.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1168 2007-12-12 19:30 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1078 2007-12-12 19:30 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1151 2007-12-12 19:30 fedora-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1904 2007-11-07 14:11 livna-devel.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1808 2007-11-07 14:11 livna.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2003 2007-11-07 14:11 livna-testing.repo
My video card is a nVidia 5200. With both the nvidia driver enabled
and disabled the CNN video stops.
Any hints?
Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
16 years, 4 months
