Play *.rm Files With Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player does not support Real audio and video files, and real networks does not release any patch for WMP. Thanks to competition between Microsoft and Real networks. But, Real has released a patch for other media players. So, let's use this patch for playing real video and audio files.

1- Go to sourceforge.net website and download RealMedia Splitter from guliverkli Project. To download directly go to:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=87719

2- Extract zipped file and copy "realmediasplitter.ax" to your system directory:
Win9x: c:\windows\system
WinXP: c:\windows\system32

3- Click Start > Run > and type “regsvr32 realmediasplitter.ax” and then click Ok.

4- Run your Windows Media Player, select “any file(*.*)” from file type field and open a *.rm file. Windows Media Player will display an error message that the selected file has an extension that is not recognized by Windows Media Player, but it still might be able to play it. Select check box and press ok.

Congratulations.

Broadband Connection In Fedora

Usage of lan most at all times being infeasible, I'd like to introduce the configuration of broadband connection on Fedora (works for other distributions as well).

1. Right click on the network icon on the top panel and click on "Edit Connections..."
2. In the "DSL" tab, press "Add" button.
3. Give the connection name as per preference.
   
4. Give Username and Password given by the provider and name of the Service you are using(mine was BSNL).
5. No need to make any further changes in any of the tabs. Click on apply.
6. Observe that the connection name appears on the menu that shows connections configured when you click the network icon.
   
7. Click on the connection you just created.
   
   Congrats! You are connected to the internet. Happy surfing!

Removing Kernels in Fedora

Whenever you update your system, new available kernels get installed and the preexisting ones do not automatically give way to the new ones. This eats up a lot of memory. Here's how to remove them.

In terminal(Main Menu > System Tools > Terminal) enter the following command to get the full release version of the kernel.

# rpm -q kernel

to remove a version enter:

# rpm -e kernel-version

using the rpm command will also clean up your grub.conf.

CAUTION: Keeping the old kernel is for backup if something goes wrong. So, be careful.