Making VLC play in Fedora 9

Well I installed VLC ( formerly called Video Lan Client) today on my installation of fedora 9 and like any other video player it 2 was not working, so here are the settings that worked for me:

1) Go to Settings>Preferences>Check Advanced Options
2)Audio>Output Modules>Select ALSA Audio output >ALSA>Refresh List>Select Device
3)Video>Output modules>Select X11 Video Output

Well Thats about it

Enjoy!!!

Gmail Hacks 1

Gmail supports plus-addressing, affording you some rather powerful email-handling, routing, and filtering functionality.

eg. if your email address is xyz@gmail.com you can use plus addressing as xyz+fedora@gmail.com

and go on as xyz+fedora+ambassador@gmail.com
So you can make up an unlimited number of arbitrary email addresses to use when signing up for something, making a purchase online, or tracking a conversation and mailing lists.

Set up a filter check
here

OpenSuSE 11.0 is out !!!

Well after a long wait openSuSe 11.0 is among us , well it looks quite spunky with better looks, plasma , compiz effects .I Just hope ZYpp stands goes as per the expectations.Thankfully it has both KDE 4.04 and 3.5 (phew fedora 9 disappointed there)

Hello Firefox 3

YAAYYYY FIREFOX 3 IS LAUNCHED !!! Download

New Features

Cure Kaffeine and Real player problems so they don’t Crash

Well for my Laptop 6515b , Fedora 9 proved to be more troublesome than Fedora 8 including kaffeine

The problem itself is not in kaffeine but in xine engine parameters

Go to Settings>Xine Engine Parameters>Video>Beginners Options xine in Auto mode was using xv causing entire system Hang whenever i played anything.So change it to xshm.Thats all!!!!!

In Real Player go to Tools>Preferences>Hardware

Disable XVideo, For me Alsa couldn’t be initialized. Hence  RealPlayer 11 can be used on OSS.

Help Firefox 3 set a World Record

Make a Pledge to download Firefox 3 and set a Guinness World Record of most software downloads in a single day i.e. 24 hrs. You can register here. You will receive an email notification about the Download Day.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Set a world record enjoy a better web!!!!!!!!!

UDF Bug in Linux Kernel , Play udf discs in fedora & other distros

I had been noticing for many months now that certain udf discs were not being mounted by fedora 8.

Giving Message:
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


Earlier i had thought it just to be defect of my drive but after my drive got replaced and after installing fedora 9 i decided to check up and voila !!This bug has been reported in nearly all distros.(well duh since kernel has bug)

Solution

Review : Element Browser beta 6 R 2

Review : Element Browser beta 6

Well what began as just fancy looks has finally gained usability . After a quite a few bug removals its finally looking nearly good to go. Thankfully now it uses .NET 2 not 3.5(phew.. i just reinstalled xp i didnt want to download it on such low bandwidth).A little slow in browsing but thats probably IE engine.
Most of the interface is functional now including the the top buttons and the browser has stopped crashing.

Now official and it is now has an EULA agreement (being cost free product under proprietary license).

New Homepage : http://elementsoftware.rack111.com/

KEEP UP THE DEVELOPMENT !!!

Fedora 9 :The second Look Review

Well after some days after using with fedora i have come to the decide on certain aspects..

1) Sure Package-Kit uses less memory and is faster than pirut BUT the interface design is IRRITATING!!!

It doesn’t download all package descriptions together, while this is reasonable but you can only download only 1 package at a time and you can only select those packages to install in your current view.( They should learn something from yumex and smart package manager)

2)GNOME-VFS The latest version of gnome 2.22 packs a speed punch with sharper graphics and faster interface but when copying from a pen drive (flash drive) results in it pausing in between copying. (THIS IS NOT A FEDORA SPECIFIC PROBLEM. ITS THERE IN UBUNTU 8.04 )

Fedora 9 essentials guide

A basic guide to satisfy all your needs:

NOTE:all commands r to be typed in terminal with sudo or su login
PS:” All yum commands can be replaced by package kit alternatives type “info pkcon” in terminal.

1)Adding livna repositories : (VERY ESSENTIAL ALL OTHER STEPS REQUIRE THIS)
Since Fedoras own repositories dont have much softwares use livna or packman repositories
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
then yum update

2)YUMEX :install yumex for gui interface for yum , though package kit suffices.

3)MP3 SUPPORT: