Many of us are using US keyboards in EU countries and the keyboard layout only includes the $ (dollar) key. In order to use other currencies such as the Euro, you need to map the Euro symbol to a certain key combination. On a Fedora system navigate to the System menu –> Preferences –> Keyboard [...]
VirtualBox received a major update a few weeks ago. The latest version 4.0 adds changes to the interface (now called VirtualBox Manager), new virtual hardware and a number of fixes which you can see in the changelog. Here’s how you can update your existing Vbox 3.x installation on Fedora 14: [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora [...]
By default firefox saves your bookmarks to ~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILE.default/bookmarkbackups You can see there a bunch of *.json files. ls ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarkbackups bookmarks-2010-07-07.json bookmarks-2010-07-29.json bookmarks-2010-08-03.json bookmarks-2010-08-05.json bookmarks-2010-08-06.json bookmarks-2010-08-10.json If you use more than one machine or you’ve recently changed / reinstalled your OS and you want to restore the old bookmarks, you need to import them manually: backup [...]
Thunderbird 3.1.2 has been released, adding fixes to improve stability and the user interface. I’m using Fedora 13 and the update isn’t available yet in the official repositories. I could use an unofficial repo, such as Remi, to get the updates more quickly, but the easiest way for me is to use the precompiled binaries [...]
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