Re: sound, mice and thunderbird

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 15:21, Steve Reindl wrote:
> After a recent cd upgrade to fedora core 2 on my desktop, I noticed 2 
> very strange behaviors.
> 
> The first is that what used to be a very stable MS Explorer Optical 
> mouse, which now will scroll down but exhibits random behavior when 
> trying to scroll up. (Doc, you posted a boot option here to fix that, 
> any chance you could post it for me again so I can be lazy).

Glad to...  psmouse.proto=imps

> I guess the 
> difficulty lies in the fact that the mouse is attached to my KVM and 
> apparently the kernel doesn't handle the KVM well.

KVM:  IOGear = good  ,  Belkin = bad

> I did apt-get 
> dist-upgrade which upgraded the kernel to 2.6.6-1.435.2.3. If you have 
> this mouse problem, don't do the kernel upgrade. My mouse became totally 
> unuseable. I am running 2.6.5-1.358 for now.
> 
...
> Last, in conversation with a few people about the recent DHS/US-CERT 
> thrashing of Internet Exploder, some windows admins were wondering about 
> using Thunderbird as a replacement for OE. From everything I'm seeing on 
> my Windows box, most lusers should feel no pain. My installation of 
> Evolution kept crashing when I would use keyboard shortcuts to delete 
> and expunge the SPAM so I'm now using Thunderbird on the Fedora side of 
> the house too. Very nice.

There is one "gotcha" about running Firefox 0.9, Mozilla 1.7, and other
very recent releases from Mozilla Foundation. The Netscape Security
Services (NSS) module with all the SSL/TLS support has been upgraded
from v3.8 to v3.9. This upgrade involves some non-trivial changes to its
API and to the crypto algorithms it supports. As a result, the FIPS
140-1 certification for NSS v3.8 (certs #247 and #248 under the
Cryptographic Module Validation Program - CMVP) are not valid for NSS
v3.9. "Who gives a rat's flyin' patootie?", I hear you mutter. Uncle
Sam, that's who. Government users of Mozilla products are prohibited
from using any releases based on the uncertified NSS v3.9 in the conduct
of their daily duties. And that's too bad because Moz 1.7 has some nice
new features.

--Doc 
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2197.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
                         -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov


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