Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 23:43 - Desktop
here's tips to ease you view current IP address (ordinary user can't use ifconfig to see it) or change your IP address (root access reqiured). note: I'm using gnome 2.10 under FC4
Right-click on a vacant space on the panel (the one that have clock),
then choose "Add to Panel...",
select Network Monitor item.
Click Add button.
Right-click again on Network Monitor item that already display on panel
choose Move
and drag it next to clock
To see current IP address
Right-click again on Network Monitor item that already display on panel
click Properties
and choose Support tab.
To change current IP address
Right-click again on Network Monitor item that already display on panel
click Properties
click Configure button
enter root password if asked
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( 3 / 398 )Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 20:41 - Misc
A very nice Graphical Interface for telnet, ssh, rlogin to other machines which remember parameters for each machines like port, username and password. Have been using it for a while and like it much rather than typing on gnome-terminal
ssh username@machines
and don't a have a lists of machines which I want to remote.
gnome-telnet is available on fedora-extra repository. Make sure file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extra.repo has enabled=1 option
To install it type:
yum -y install gnome-telnet
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( 3.1 / 297 )Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 19:52 - Desktop
You can type this command as root: yum -y thunderbird
but since I already downloaded before to my server, so this is my command
mkdir -p /root/fcupdate/apps
cd /root/fcupdate/apps
wget http://10.10.105.105/software/fedora/ex ... 4.i386.rpm
yum -y localinstall thunderbird-1.0.7-1.1.fc4.i386.rpm
cd
Now Login as user and follow this step to make Thunderbird as your Default email client on Gnome
"Desktop" > "Preferences" >
"More Preferences" > "Preferred Applications"
and selecting "Thunderbird Mail" in the drop-down menu under the Mail Reader tab.
Or you can edit file /usr/share/applications/redhat-email.desktop as root
and replace the line
Exec=launchmail
with
Exec=thunderbird
To simplify setting the same configuration for most PCs I have put file redhat-email.desktop to server and create a script to update user's launcmail configuration. Below is the script:
#Script name: ic.thunderbird.sh
#Install and configure Thunderbird for default email client
#date 1 March 2006
#It should be run as root otherwise you get error
mkdir -p /root/fcupdate/apps
cd /root/fcupdate/apps
wget http://10.10.105.105/software/fedora/ex ... 4.i386.rpm
yum -y localinstall thunderbird-1.0.7-1.1.fc4.i386.rpm
wget http://10.10.105.105/software/fedora/ex ... il.desktop
cp --reply=yes redhat-email.desktop /usr/share/applications
cd
#done
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( 3 / 416 )Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 01:53 - Desktop
Here's a good website that give you a tutorial on how to Install and configure FC 4 for Desktop usage
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4 ... notes.html
I'll follow the steps on that site and will put my own notes here.
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( 3 / 309 )Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 01:53 - Desktop
I think I have describe my PC hardware configuration before I am telling that linux just work fine on my PC. So here''s my PC Hardware configuration
Asus P4R800-Deluxe Motherboard
Intel Pentium IV 2.8Ghz HT
Vgen 512 MB DDR-RAM PC3200 x2
SATA Seagete 200 GB
IDE Lite-On DVD-CDRW on Secondary Master
below specs is it important ??
Compaq Keyboard
Logitech Scroll Mouse
Sun 17" Monitor
Simbadda Casing
and Altec Lansing 221 Speaker
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