Archive for May, 2006

Installing Flash on Fedora Core 5

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Just started using Fedora Core 5. I installed it a couple of weeks ago, but have been working a lot and haven’t played around much with it. I decided I needed to install flash and downloaded it from Adobe. I untared the file and followed their instructions, but it didn’t work. I also tried issuing […]

IE and China Airlines

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Gunjan and I are going away for the Holidays in December and have been researching prices of flights to various countries. While seeing how much it cost to get to Asia, I went to China Airline’s website (using Firefox of course) and was greeted with a javascript alert that said “Please useing IE6.0 or later […]

Fedora Core 5

Friday, May 12th, 2006

I finally got off my ass and installed Fedora Core 5 on my desktop. I had an early attempted foray into desktop Linux about 2 years ago, with a dual partition of Fedora Core 2 and Windows 2000. It worked alright, although I used Windows more than Linux and I ran into a couple problems […]

India Trip

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

I recently got back from a ski-mountaineering trip to India. I haven’t had a chance to post the photos yet, but will soon. Although there was stormy weather the first two weeks , it was a great trip and I eventually got some great skiing in, with a couple descents of 5,000 meter peaks (about […]