open source chrome on fedora 11

Google has its open source version of its Chrome browser, currently under heavy development. The open source version is called Chromium.

Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, the Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled versions of the chromium browser.

To install chromium, create a chromium.repo file in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
Commands:
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo

Then fill it up with this:-

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

After that, just yum install chromium
Root Shell commands:
[root@yourpc ~]# yum install chromium
User Shell commands:
[workspace@yourpc ~]$ su -c 'yum install chromium'

how to setup ubuntu to play an Encrypted DVD

VLC media player for Debian GNU/Linux
Debian stable (lenny)

VLC is available in etch, with a quite old version. Install vlc, mozilla-plugin-vlc, the usual way you do it.
Debian testing (squeeze)

VLC is potentially available in testing. But due to the way testing works, we can't guarantee which version, if any, is currently available. Install vlc, mozilla-plugin-vlc, the usual way you do it.
Debian unstable (sid)

VLC's latest packaged version is always in the official Debian unstable branch. However you should still use our apt-get line if you need libdvdcss:

deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main

For a normal install, do:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2

Debian oldstable (etch)

A version (0.8.6) is packaged in Etch. However, if you want libdvdcss (DVD decryption) support, you will need to add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main

For a normal install, do:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2

google chromium browser setup.

sudo su
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main #chromium-browser" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

use command sudo dolphin to copy ".SO" files enable Flash support:
cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins


Note: this command may only copy A dead link...
sudo ln -s ../../flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

For extensions: Start browser with the following commands.
chromium-browser --enable-greasemonkey --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions

Note browser may lock out bash shell dir listing use:
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/extensions

browse to chrome://extensions/ to check installation and about:plugins..

ubuntu Acer setup Notes

How to drastically speed up Firefox Make firefox store its cache in the /tmp directory - which when we we have moved it to a tmpfs according to this wiki is *faster*.

* Firefox 3.x uses a sqlite db that creates many write accesses, so this can reduce it:

1. In Firefox go to (type as url) "about:config", right click, add new string browser.cache.disk.parent_directory“ with value "/tmp/firefox"

2. In Firefox change options/security/ and disable phishing if you dare. - Your firefox will run even faster then but won't warn you about phishing any more so take care!

Alternatively, to speed up Firefox further, enter "about:config" (without the quotes) as an url in Firefox, then change the following settings:

// disable disk and offline cache
set browser.cache.disk.enabled: false
set browser.cache.disk.capacity: 0
set browser.cache.offline.enable: false
set browser.cache.offline.capacity: 0

// just as a precaution
add browser.cache.disk.parent_directory: /tmp

// Apparently safebrowsing slows things down - disable at your own risk!
set browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled: false
set browser.safebrowsing.enabled: false
set network.prefetch-next: false

// don't show suggestions in the search bar
browser.search.suggest.enabled: false

// don't spellcheck as I type
layout.spellcheckDefault: 0

Well now I cannot remember if I have already recored this information on this web-blog or not. Well I really have to find the time to overlook my past entries.

Acer Aspire one

http://madberry.org/2008/11/how-to-get-atheros-ar242x-to-work-on-810-intrepid-ibex/

Acer Aspire One Atheros ar242X setup ? lolz this website may help. the only bad thing about this Netbook is the WIFI.

Howto setup wifi on Acer One Netbooks - 2009 My 1st blog post of the year!

Acer netbooks & the AR242X WIFI CHIPSET:
Hold the kennel at version: Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic

Edit this file: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
add
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist ath_hal

Edit this file: /etc/sources/sources.list

Look for this entry: do as directed, you may have to uncomment the back port server addresses.



## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
repository.
##N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

next step:

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid

then reboot.

Worked for me.