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Upgrade VirtualBox on Fedora 14

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 […]

OOo3.3.0Beta

Oracle OpenOffice 3.3.0 Beta has been released. I gave it a try on my OpenSolaris machine. The installation is pretty basic — download the tarball from download.openoffice.org/all_beta.html, unpack it, then run the setup shell script to install. This new development version can co-exist with older OpenOffice instances on your machine. It is installed in /opt/ooo-dev3 […]

Firefox bookmarks

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 on Fedora

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 […]