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everybody is writing about the  "top 10 firefox add-on" but when you look at the list, you get a feeling of disatisfaction. you begin to question on what basis was this "top 10" list made from. and in the end you realise, either the writer was talking about his own favourite "top 10" or he went and browsed the available add-ons on the mozilla add-ons page and selected what he liked for his "list"

so without further ado, here is MY list of favourite firefox extensions

in an earlier article i mentioned i would write 4 articles on repositories (repo). 1 each on skype, rpmfusion, adobe and the last, this one, on google. the previous 3 had mixed reactions. the most successful being adobe.repo while the least was rpmfusion, probably because that repo is the most famous. so for completeness only, i am adding google.repo.

finally! i got the vmc card up and running on fedora 11. if you are reading this it probably means you tried my previous article and it failed on python(abi) version 2.5 being missed. so how did i do it? well, just read on.

first of all, download the following 2 packages:

i recently decided to take a stand against mono and all the programs that use mono and c sharp as a dependency.

the reasons i took the decision were basically that i felt mono was invading the gnome desktop. and i am not too sure what is going on over at novell for me to be absolutely confortable with mono, moonlight et al

so how did i take the stand? as per 'man yum.conf', i configure yum not to download anything with mono or sharp in its name. the end result was a new line in /etc/yum.conf

  exclude=mono* *sharp*

adobe is of course known as the makers of flash. that little plugin to the browser so you can view flash is also from adobe. by adding adobe's repo to your machine, you will automatically update the flash plugin whenever you update your system and updates are available.there are 2 ways to add the repo. the first is by manually visiting adobe.com and on the "get adobe plugin" page you select "yum for linux" instead of rpm. or you enter the following command:

in a previous article, i wrote about how to disable PackageKit permanently. unfortunately, that turned out to be a per user preference and not a system-wide setting.

so, this time round, i decided to stop it once and for all. i was advised in #fedora on irc.freenode.net to remove PackageKit.
the command is:
    yum erase PackageKit

this will tell you the following dependencies will also be removed:

it came about that i lost my /boot directory on my workpc (rm -rf /boot) and while it is definetly not an experience one would like to reproduce, i did learn a couple of things on how to recover /boot

first of all, thanks to thomasj, Southern_Gentlem et al of #fedora on irc.freenode.net for their help. and now we begin.

ensure that your boot partition is mounted on /boot. if the installation used the default setting then the command would be

  mount /dev/sda1 /boot

some time back, upper management at where i work, decided to migrate all our servers to SLES. i then made the decision to move my personal machines to opensuse, the opensource base of SLES, to become familiar with SUSE's administration tools and methodologies. i have since moved back to fedora but there was one feature that i loved and wished was in fedora: deltarpms

rpmfusion is a merger of 3 other repos. the main objective is to provide software that for some reason or other Fedora cannot offer like mp3 codecs.

rpmfusion provides 2 main repositiories as mentioned in their Founding Principles page:

one of the beautiful features about linux is its capability to have software repositories. and that is in the plural and includes official and non-official repositories which may include 3rd party software. these can also include free commercial software as well as FLOSS software. this article has the skype.repo attached for immediate use