fedora 10 in virtualbox

yeehaw...i finally have a working fedora virtual machine. it took some head bangin' but i got it banged into shape to suit me.

1st task was to kill those annoying menu tooltips. will somebody please tell the gnome and fedora devs to stop enabling those by default and also install the gconf-editor with the release. i found the command to install gconf-editor
yum install gconf-editor
worked ok, then i run it and go to apps > panel > global > tooltips_enabled. uncheck the box and say goodbye tooltips.

2nd task is guest additions and screen resolution. this is where i've failed with previous versions of fedora and given up, but not this time, hehe. the guest additions wanted gnu make, kernel headers, and gnu compiler (gcc) before it would install. i somehow managed to install those 3 packages and the guest additions then installed like a charm. mouse integration works but i couldn't change the resolution. i found this xorg tip on the virtualbox forums.

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Here is what I did for Fedora 10 guest under Ubuntu 8.10 Host
Run the following command to create xorg.conf.new inside fedora 10 box

Xorg -configure :1

Copy xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

reboot

That is it!!


it worked. i can resize the virtualbox window to any resolution and fedora automagically resizes itself.

now, i'm off to play with my new fc10 virtual machine. so far so good in virtualbox.

war & peace in my email

i signed up to receive installments of a book in my email. because i spend so much time on my computer i thought this might be a good way to get some book reading done. this should be fun.

i searched for War and Peace at dailylit.



simply entered my email addy



validated my email



had them send me the first installment



let's go check my email



here it is



the text appears word for word as the book



this book is considered a must read but it is a bit daunting. i think i can digest it in small installments.

dailylit appears to be a nice website. there are lots of titles, authors, categories available.

cya george, it's been fun.

best wishes and good luck, obama.


linky here

another feature i DON'T WANT

well here we go, another rant in my continuing saga about websites and software makers forcing features on me that i DO NOT WANT. this time it's google search suggestions. just when i start to get comfortable google throws some more bull at me. what really peeves me off is the bullcrap marketing rhetoric they use to convince me or shame me that it's a good thing. they really should stop with all these lame features before they break the proverbial camel's back.
this concerns me because i read on a recent blog post somewhere that it is nothing more than a keystroke logger by google. i wonder why search suggestions is unable to help me find where i read that post? when you start typing into the google search box google offers suggestions based on what you're typing. when you type a letter it looks for words that start with that letter. this is a connection to google and tells them that i typed that letter into the box. i don't believe for one second that google is not logging this. they know every letter i type.
the bullcrap rhetoric is that they are trying to cut down on misspelled words. the hidden agenda is that they see every letter. sure, you can turn the feature off in search preferences but you have to keep cookies for it to stick.
i'm really getting sick and tired of new developments. i'm using an old version of firefox because i don't like the new version. i haven't upgraded my mandriva from 2008.1 to the 2009 release because i don't like it. i have switched to the old version of email because of new features. i'm am growing weary of google very fast.

edit... element hiding helper hides the drop down.