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Finalzone
26th September 2005, 08:17 AM
Issue 15 (http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_15) is available. Check out information about and more details about [url=http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/XorgUpdateFix]bug on Xorg for Fedora Core 4 (]Fedora Project FAQ[/url).

News covered:

1 Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 Released
2 Unavoidable Xorg package update problems
3 News for ASUS K8N-DL owners
4 Fedora FAQ merger effort
5 Meeting Minutes for Fedora Documentation
6 Meeting Minutes for Fedora Marketing
7 Review: The Present and Future with Fedora Core 4
8 My Experience and Strategy in Migrating MS Windows to Linux
9 Tip of the Week
10 Fedora Core 4 Updates
imdeemvp
26th September 2005, 09:03 AM
What's exactly the issue with xorg because I have not had them yet? Nvidia and ati in laptop run fine!
ilja
26th September 2005, 09:04 AM

copied to news
benni.
26th September 2005, 05:59 PM
I ran the new packages (from wednesday) and ever since then, I couldn't run the graphical interface. The display was corrupted. So I had to start in runlevel 3 and grab the old packages in order to get back to my nice Gnome :). On Friday the clean new packages were released and those worked for me.
macgregor
26th September 2005, 06:05 PM
What's exactly the issue with xorg because I have not had them yet? Nvidia and ati in laptop run fine!
I haven't had any issues either, but I haven't installed ati or nvidia drivers.
Evert
26th September 2005, 07:09 PM
i have build an rpm of Firefox 1.0.7

feel free to download it

www.fedora-nieuws.nl
wiraone
26th September 2005, 10:59 PM
Did a yum upgrade just now and happily running firefox 1.0.7, no idea if this is official release or freshrpms one .. anyway, I'm running the new updated xorg w/o problem..
packy
28th September 2005, 08:13 AM
I haven't had any problems what-so-ever with the updated xorg packages, but my palms aren't all bushy from hair either. The lord sees everything!

Kudoz to Tejas Dinkar for his Tips for using vi/vim [ http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Tip_of_the_Week_2005-09-26 ] article, great readup on one of the fastest programs out there. Thanks man!
Finalzone
4th October 2005, 07:11 AM
Issue 16 posted (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=79882)
odalcet
4th October 2005, 05:42 PM
I donīt see the fun with the "If you are and idiot click here" link. Norton SystemWorks reports a trojan here.... What is this, a forum spreading viruses?
ilja
5th October 2005, 09:37 AM
odalcet, please chill a bit.
1st) The forum is the software, it does not sidtribute viruses
2nd) The Administration takes no responsbility for content of users
3rd) This is just a harmless and silly script.
it looks like this

<html>
<head>
<title>You are an idiot!</title>
<script language="Javascript" src="../script/you.js"></script>
</head>
<body bgColor=#ffffff onload="flagRun=1;playBall();return true;" onKeyDown="altf4key();ctrlkey();delkey();" onUnLoad="procreate()" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name=movie value="youare.swf">
<param name=quality value=high>
<embed src="youare.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%" height="100%">
</embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>
~
~

It does not harm your pc, but it starts a script, that just lets the window hide from the mouse, deactivates a few keys. And it shows up the flash with the idiot song.
I'm sorry, but I have to say, that the Norton System Works is overcasious.

To stop this thingy in linux open a console enter

xkill

to stop it in Windows you have to use any external program, to kill the browser process, there are a lot of 3rd party alternatives avalaible.


But thank you, for the warning.