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Firefox Downloads Change from Nautilus to Thunar for “Open Containing Folder” option Fedora 7
I use XFCE4 and one annoying thing was firefox was opening Nautilus when clicking the Open Containing Folder option in the Firefox Download dialog box The fix: Using a Terminal open nautilus In Nautilus right click on a "folder" object in the window of Nautilus....
Yum – Unhelpful Reply
Yum has a few things needing fixing. For example: I have smolt-0.9.8.3-1.fc7 installed but if I do yum install smolt it replies Nothing to do Logically you would assume that this "Nothing to do" message means "I already have that package installed" but NO. If I do a...
IE7 Embedded Squirrelmail Login JavaScript Error
I have embedded my Squirrelmail login into the front of my wordpress blog by putting into the header.php the following function The default squirrelmail code uses the format document.forms[0]. this causes the code to see the first form on the page which may not be...
Stopping Notepad++ Re-Opening Files from the Last Session
I found the default Notepad++ behaviour of opening the files that were open last time annoying (if I was programmer the default would be fine). To turn it off: Open Notepad++ Click Settings ==> Preferences ==> MISC Tab Uncheck the "Remember the current session for...
cups-pdf Fedora 7 changing directory pdf is outputted to
While installing cups-pdf using yum install cups-pdf I got this error: cut: write error: Broken pipe Installed: cups-pdf.i386 0:2.4.6-1.fc7 But it didn't seem to effect the install. However the default directory cups-pdf for F7 outputs to is $HOME/Desktop... I hate...
WordPress Exploit Appearing in Apache Logs
This appeared in my Apache logs this morning: //wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions ... rm%20-rf%20kk*?: 1 Time(s) Looking back through the logs the full request was: //wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions/mygallerybrowser.php?myPath=...
Stopping Yum Updating Certain Packages
I recently downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org's 2.2.1 The next upgrade YUM wanted to do was going to downgrade it back to 2.2.0-14. etc. To stop YUM doing this I added the following into the '[main]' section of /etc/yum.conf exclude=openoffice.org* Information is...
Getting around IE misrendering a title with forward slashes in it
On the recent posts menu I have a title: squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found. Internet Explorer 7 somehow mis interpreted the forward slashes as HTML entities and I had a gap between the previous title and the "squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found."...
wxWidgets & wxPerl Install Notes Fedora 7
Note: These Notes don't yet give a working F7 wxPerl environment. I am currently trying the wxperl-users mailing list to see if I can get some information on why Media.pm isn't being compiled/installed. I am having all sorts of problems trying to get the latest...