I started doing a bit of research into [...]]]> I have a web page that lists servers I need to connect to. This page has several hyper links for each server to key webpages on that host. I wanted to be able to connect using ssh too, at the click of a link. (eg: ssh://myserver.example.com and ssh://user@myserver.example.com)

I started doing a bit of research into this and have been able to set it up!

On Fedora 10:
1. Open Firefox and go to: about:config.
2. Right Click > New > Boolean > Enter the following name “network.protocol-handler.expose.ssh” and then “true”
3. Right Click > New > Boolean > Enter the following name “network.protocol-handler.external.ssh” and then “true”
4. Right Click > New > Boolean > Enter the following name “network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ssh” and then “false”
5. Right Click > New > String > Enter the following name “network.protocol-handler.app.ssh” and then “firefox-ssh.sh”
6. Close Firefox
7. Create a script here (/usr/local/bin/firefox-ssh.sh) with the following in it:

#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal -e “ssh `echo $1 | sed -e “s/ssh:\/\///”`”
8. Run chmod +x /usr/local/bin/firefox-ssh.sh
9. Open Firefox and go to a link like ssh://myserver.example.com

If you can’t wait that long, you [...]]]> Fedora 10 has a nice new boot screen. However, I found that I could only see a basic text loading bar at the bottom of the screen. This is due to graphics card support and from what I have read there will be many more cards supported in F11.

If you can’t wait that long, you can try it out. This does not work on all systems, some systems don’t boot when this parameter is present, but if you would like to try it out, and you know what your up to, add “VGA=0×317” to your boot loader kernel line (at boot time to start with).

Mine looks like this “kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx rhgb quiet vga=0×317“.

I tried this on my F10 x86_64 system and it looks great, so I have added the change to /etc/grub/grub.conf.

Good work Fedora!

First off I hope to get involved in more FOSS advocacy projects, there are a few about which I hope I can contribute too. As part of this, I am going to get involved [...]]]> Well, better late than never. I thought I would take this chance to set myself some ‘open’ goals for the New Year.

First off I hope to get involved in more FOSS advocacy projects, there are a few about which I hope I can contribute too. As part of this, I am going to get involved with or run a Software Freedom Day Event in September so I will be working towards that over the coming months.

I am also hoping to setup a local user group that can help support and guide people through the world of free software. The aim would be to have the group setup before the software freedom event so that it can be promoted as a source of help and further information. This group would help to form a team to run the event, and would enable people to drop in afterwards to learn more, get help and build a local community that can sustain future events.

Migrate another system. I have two systems at work, (two of many overall) one that runs Windows XP, the other Vista. Well it did until I took a Fedora 10 disk to it.

I do run Linux on some of my desktops and its not my first attempt to migrate this poticular one. Its the easier of the two work systems to do so i decided to give it another go. I am hopeful there will be more success this time. I know of 1 or 2 applications that will require Windows so I am going to build a get out of jail free card Virtual Machine on it. This should allow me to use workarounds if needed rather than to revert the system.

My goal is to have it running Fedora all year, even if I have a Windows VM on it.

I am going to try to blog more this year. It will hopefully be a good way of me to give information to the community that has helped me, and howto’s i have completed things or details of how I have over come issues etc.

So now I guess I should get to it, hope you have a Happy New Year!

Close Firefox

Change to the Firefox plugins directory: cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

Download the Flash plugin: wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Extract the plugin: tar -xvzf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Remove the .tar.gz as you now have the plugin extracted: rm libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Open Firefox & you should be away!