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corran_horn314

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I recently installed Fedora Core 2 on my laptop(dual booting with XP). Its been about 1.5 years since I've used Linux in a desktop environment, I have a server running linux that I log into remotely, and I have two hopefully easy questions.

First. Just out of curiosity, why do usb flash drives get recognized as sda(or scsi) devices. I know linux had very bad usb support until recently. Did they just find it easier to sort of 'map' it onto a scsi channel, or is there a technical reason why it was done like that?

Second. I use a Microsoft usb optical mouse. Does anyone know how to get the two side buttons and the scroll wheel button to act properly. In Firefox for example, when i push the right side button it acts like a regular right-click, when i push the left side button or the scroll wheel button it brings me back to a seemingly random page(not the last page i was at). I'm used to using those buttons, but it wouldn't be a disaster if I couldn't get them working.

Thanks.
 
Just to clarify, button3-click in firefox does a google "I feel lucky"-search on the text in your primary buffer (the last text you selected), or moves to that address if the text looks like an address. If you button3-click a link, it opens it in a new tab in the background.

The wheel is usually button 3 on modern mice. (It's where the third button used to be, after all. :D )
 
That explains why it seemed a little random, sometimes I select text as i'm reading it and then i would try to click back and it would go to some weird page... Thanks for that explanation. Anyone know much about my other question?
 
the USB drives are SCSI because it was the easiest way to suport them. Since SCSI has support for hotplugging they just mapped it to the SCSI lib.

But when the new udev device mapping matures more you will be able to just plug it in and have it map to what ever point you want it to. You can set it up to map to /dev/usbdrive if you wanted to.
 
That Firefox behavior with the I feel lucky search pissed me off to no end.

If you want, you can disable it. Type in "about:config" in the URL bar.

Filter out "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" and set it to false. I believe that's the setting that disables it. Then your mouse wheel will behave like normal.
 
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