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( Update : Just realized that this isn't a fix but a workaround . The fix would be for Google to bundle the working Wine binaries. (Then again, they most likely use the stable release, while Fedora uses the current development one. Oh well...)) Picasa 3 for Linux has this niggling* problem: you can't log on to Picasa Web. It appears that a Wine static binary bundled with it does not work well with Fedora . * "Niggling", that is, if you consider not being able to sync your photos with Picasa a minor one. The solution was to overwrite the offending binary with one from the "blessed" Wine package for Fedora. It presupposes that you have Wine already installed, which I don't. So, I went through it in a run-about way: get the binary file and replace the bundled one. Fedora's package manager, yum , doesn't let you just download a package without installing it. Good thing there's this little plugin called yum-downloadonly that let's you do jus...

We already know how to update Twitter from the command line . To get your and your friends' timeline from the CLI, use the following one-liner: curl -u username --silent "https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss" | perl -ne 'print "$2\n" if / (.*) /;' Using the same method, you can also get unread Gmail inbox messages (via commandlinefu.com ).

I finally have Chromium on Fedora 11, thanks to Fedora developer, Tom "spot" Callaway 's dev repo . In /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo : [chromium] name=Chromium Test Packages baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/$releasever/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 And it was just a matter of doing: yum install chromium I CAN HAZ CHROMIUM! My launcher specifies the following: --enable-plugins --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions so this build now supports plugins (it adopted the Mozilla Firefox plugins, like Flash and the Citrix ICA client - YouTube works!), and extensions (I installed AdSweep ). I haven't tried Greasemonkey user scripts yet.

Part of the STS-128 mission day 7 highlights aboard the International Space Station. I want one! :D