I haven’t been in a rush to upgrade to Firefox 2.0, mainly because I’m doing fine with 1. Now that extensions are getting updated, I’ve been moving over on some of my machines. Here are the essentials:

I’m a keyboard junkie – moving your hands off the keys is so tedious – so one thing about Firefox 2.0 drives me nuts – the “accesskey” option of the INPUT form tag now apparently requires Shift+Alt instead of just Alt. To change it back to just Alt, you browse to about:config and change the ui.key.generalAccessKey from integer value -1 to 18. Ahh.

Once again, it can only be intentional.

The Vista x64 installer allows you to set up your drive partitions, but it will likely just give you fits. (continued…)

(Editor’s note: More gentoo MythTV installation notes… don’t expect order here, for that, see my wiki…)

OK, all my gear has arrived, I sent back the bad CPU and motherboard and got replacements, everything is humming (very quietly I might add! what a sweet case…), and I’m ready for the final (ha!) gentoo Media Center install.

I’m using this gear:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2.0GHz Socket 939
MSI K8NGM2-FID
NForce 430
GeForce 6150
8 channel HD audio codec RealTek ALC880 (INTEL)

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I had some troubles on my gentoo box that were preventing it from fully booting up. KNOPPIX was a great solution. It allowed me to boot into a fully-functional linux system regardless of the state of the operating system on the hard drive. From there, I was able to pinpoint my problems. Try it out, highly recommended!

Read on for the details… (continued…)

I’m loving using Gallery for serving up my photos, I can keep them on my own machine and avoid feeling like a Flickr whore. Of course that means I have to provide the bandwidth! But these are personal, and I love to own my own data, so it feels right.

For a full install on Gentoo, just emerge:

emerge gallery

Under Fedora, you have to grab each module separately – here are the ones I chose to grab:

yum install gallery2 gallery2-albumselect gallery2-classic gallery2-ffmpeg gallery2-floatrix gallery2-gd gallery2-hybrid gallery2-icons gallery2-imageblock gallery2-imagemagick gallery2-linkitem gallery2-matrix gallery2-newitems gallery2-randomhighlight gallery2-rating gallery2-remote gallery2-reupload gallery2-rewrite gallery2-rss gallery2-search gallery2-siriux gallery2-sitemap gallery2-sizelimit gallery2-slider gallery2-slideshow gallery2-slideshowapplet gallery2-squarethumb gallery2-thumbnail gallery2-thumbpage gallery2-tile gallery2-useralbum

Then you create a database for gallery, set up apache, and browse to the base directory to go through the install. The only strange thing is that under Fedora the default is for the data to go under /srv/gallery2/g2data, since /usr/share is read-only by default. So that’s where I put it. Have fun!