[K12OSN] off topic regarding Fedora Core 3 Desktop install

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 06:06, Will Hatch wrote:
> I have installed the Desktop version of Fedora Core 3 to a computer at our agency, using the K12LTSP disks that I used to set up our k12 network here at the school.  The person is that now has this desktop version of Fedora is having 2 problems.
> 
> 1. she cannot do her online banking because it requires Java.  What is the easiest way to get Java running on her computer (I'm a command line novice)?  

If you started with the k12ltsp version, you should have a bunch of
helper scripts in /usr/sbin/get.* that also have desktop icons under
"get additional software" if you log in as root.  You can execute them
by double-clicking the icon or typing the script name, or you can
look at the script to see the relevant command.  In this case it
is "up2date -i --nosig jre j2re-plugin".  I assume this requires the
modified /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources that comes with k12ltsp.


> 2. I suggested she check her AOL mail through the web interface for AOL.  After she logs in, the page just hangs.  Any idea what the problem is?  

I'm not sure why this doesn't work, but you get a free gmail.com account
and set it up to use pop with evolution or any standard mailer.

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  Les Mikesell
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