Wednesday, March 21, 2012

How to make Fedora user a administrator that can install packages and ..?

If you have more that one usr on laptop and both of users are advanced and could manage it
you can add user to group "wheel" and he will be able to do the same as first user.

source of wizdom.

Laptop memory upgrade for Vostro 3550

I tried to upgrade my memmory on laptop Dell Vostro 3550,
compatibility issue puzzled me a bit I connected
with Dell support live chat, provide them ServiseTag and they offered me upgrade

I searche the same .. but in twice lower in price

finally I go to http://www.crucial.com/index.aspx and it privided me compatible memory for my laptop. With 5% off cupon.
So bye memory is simple :)

Friday, March 16, 2012

Fedora 16 java plugin to FireFox

Even after installing jre, you will have problem with java applets in FireFox.
javaws http:/........xxxxxx.jnlp does not work - error "Command not found".

Useful link:
http://java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.xml#rpm

Logs of commands:

cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
sudo ln -s /usr/java/default/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
Restart FireFox