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[one-liner]: Howto get Firefox 10.x to Launch a BitTorrent Client via a Magnet Link on Linux
Background
If you’ve ever used BitTorrent you’re probably familiar with having to download a .torrent file and then opening it in a BitTorent client such as Vuze (previously known as Azureus). You may not however be that familiar with magnet links, so called trackerless torrents.
The difference? Where a .torrent is a file that includes among other […] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Howto Install Firefox 10.x on Fedora 14, CentOS 5.x & 6.x
Background
If you’re like me and still hanging back on Fedora 14, here’s a way to stay on the latest versions of Firefox without having to upgrade Fedora just yet.
Solution
Thanks to this post on the if-not-true-then-false blog (aka. if !1 0), it’s pretty easy to get firefox 10 working just fine on Fedora 14. Here are […] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Adding the Oracle/Sun Java Plugin to Firefox on Ubuntu 11.04
Background
If you’d like to add the Oracle/Sun Java plugin to Firefox under Ubuntu here’s a quick tip on how to do it.
NOTE: If you need help installing Java see my previous post, Howto Install/Setup Oracle/Sun Java 1.6.X on Ubuntu 10.10.
Solution
Simply run the following command, which creates a link to the Java plugin, thus “installing it” […] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Connecting to VMware Server 2.x from Linux without using a Browser
Background
Here’s a quick tip on how to connect to VMware server 2.x remotely from a Linux box. In this case it’s a Fedora 14 system but this approach should work just fine from any Red Hat distro such as RHEL and/or CentOS.
Solution
2 so-so workarounds
One of the annoyances of using VMware Server 2.x, is that it’s […] Continue reading
Revisiting My HTML5 Posts with Opera 11
When I first wrote my abstract for my upcoming RMOUG Training Days 2011 presentation “A First Look at HTML5,” I wrote that I’d demonstrate HTML5 in versions of the three most commonly used web browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. By the ti… Continue reading
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HTML5 Local Storage: Web Storage
Cookie Monster is not the only one looking past cookies. The Web Storage specification aims to define “an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients.” Like the Geolocation API specification I discussed in a previous blog post… Continue reading
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HTML5 Geolocation API: Your Browser Knows Where You Are
One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers supported geolocation functionality prior to HTML5, it … Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Getting Arrow & Page Up/Down Keys Working Properly in Firefox 3.x & 4.x
Background
Have you ever wondered why sometimes in Firefox your navigation keys on your keyboard (i.e. arrow + page up/down) seem to work just fine, allowing you to smoothly scroll through web pages and other times they don’t? This one’s a little embarrassing, given I’ve been using computers for a LONG time, but this problem has […] Continue reading
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HTML5 Form Placeholder Text
When developing web applications, my preference is to use HTML tags rather than JavaScript solutions whenever possible. HTML tags tend to be cleaner and simpler and will often work whether JavaScript is enabled or not in the user’s browser. Because of … Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Strange Characters on Google using Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04
Background
Recently upgraded a system to Ubuntu 10.04 and started noticing these strange characters when I’d hit Google.
google with strange characters
If you see something like this it usually has something to do with your computer’s locale (language) not being set correctly. That’s exactly what was wrong in my case […] Continue reading
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