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After installing Fedora 9 on my laptop (which went pretty smoothly, hence no dedicated entry for this), I’ve figured that Google Picasa for Linux 2.7 doesn’t start at all. To be specific, it crashes with following output:

[evad@D620 ~]$ picasa
/usr/bin/picasa: line 139: 27689 Segmentation fault   "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/usr/bin/picasa: line 175: 27784 Segmentation fault   "$PIC_BINDIR/wrapper" regedit /E $registry_export HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-4\Software\Google\Picasa\Picasa2\Preferences\

Pretty nasty, isn’t it? Sounds interesting? Read more…

Wicd is an application that manages wired and wireless connections in nice and easy manner. You might say that NetworkManager already does that and is enabled by default, but wicd has several important advantages over NM. Here are few:

• It just works. Really.
• Wicd works in the background as a daemon that connects to the network as soon as system starts up, not only after logging into user’s desktop. (You’ll consider that as a HUGE advantage if for some reason X server won’t start one day and you’d end up stuck in text-mode only, desperately looking for solutions.)
• It doesn’t ask you for a keyring/WEP/WPA passwords over and over. You type it into connection profile only once and forever.
• Allows you to define static IP/DNS configuration without a hassle.
• Did I mention wicd just works?

Sounds interesting? Read more…