Oh yeah, I’ve been driven nuts while using Fedora because the touchpad keeps going forwards and backwards in Firefox… Here’s the proper fix from the Gentoo Wiki Horizontal Scroll Issues with Firefox I was looking for this information for a long time and couldn’t find it. I finally found reference to this in a cached version of this (gentoo-wiki). So that firefox will not misinterpret the horizontal scroll as...

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     Well, I got Fedora Core 6 all downloaded yesterday. The torrent was pretty slow and I ended up using ftp.telus.net and less.cogeco.net to get the ISO images. Today I did an upgrade of my laptop which was running an up to date FC5 install. So far so awesome. One big thing that I like is that they no longer have seperate kernels for SMP and non-SMP machines for i386 hardware. Why’s that good for me? I...

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     Hey, anyone noticed that the internet is damn slow tonight? Why? Fedora Core 6 was released today. Get your copy via torrents. The new default desktop looks purty. I’m downloading now. Hopefully I can upgrade my laptop tomorrow.      Sean’s birthday today! Happy Seanday Birth!

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     I’m playing around with using Linux as the primary OS on my laptop. Each time I’ve done this previously there’s been a major stepping block that I couldn’t get through, we’ll see what happens this time. Not the point however, I stumbled upon something awesome. Lots of people probably already know this, but if you want Firefox to open a bunch of tabs on startup (Gmail, Google...

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