September 17th, 2009
Firefox is a great browser when it comes to usability, innovations and features. But there is a huge problem in most GNU/Linux Operating systems, which dont have the latest Firefox 3.5 on its repositories replacing Firefox 3.0. So one has to test by downloading from Mozilla website and some times it might not work (that was my case) so how do we use both Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 side by side? Here is how to do it ubuntu’s way.
Go to Applications –> Add and Remove –> and type in Shiretoka Web Browser (which is a beta test available in ubuntu repository) and install it.
Now you can test both Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5 side by side and njoy browsing.
Tags: firefox, ubuntu
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September 10th, 2009
In this world of Email, spam is a major part. By definition spam means unsolicited commercial e-mail, which can be lead to phishing (is the process of attempting to acquire sensitive information by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication) many a times. So its high time to react and save yourself from these cyber criminals. I am not here to you educate about spam or phishing, but to tell you that there is a quiz by sonicwall about phishing and spam. This quiz has tricky questions and I found it very nice and educating. Only requirement to take this test is, you should be willing to learn something interesting. Once you are done with quiz, click on why? link on all the questions to learn more.
I was able to score 8/10, actually depressed for missing 2 questions, unfortunately both were phishing websites.
Tags: phishing, security
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September 4th, 2009
When I first started using GNU/Linux some years ago, there were very few download managers and most of them were less capable when compared to those present for windows based operating systems like FDM, IDA, DAP, etc. So I was forced to use them on WINE for all http downloads. But now the Linux world has seen some drastic changes, you name it they have it or will start developing one (There are a few exceptions to these though). Of course Firefox is a great alternative for download managers but not always reliable. So here are few good download managers,
- Wget: GNU wget is a free software tool to download files using HTTP/HTTPS/FTP protocols and has no GUI but a commandline tool. This is very powerful and supports some very good features. Some features include,
- Can use wild-card url’s and recursively mirror directories.
- Supports cookies & proxies
- Can convert absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
- Gwget: Gwget is a very simple download manager from gnome projects. Though there are no advanced features like some others but does its job to perfection. It can be installed from most distributions repositories. Some catchy features include,
- Recursivity: Gwget detects when you put a html, php, asp or a web page dir in the url to download, and ask you to only download certain files (multimedia, only the index, and so on).
- Drag & Drop: You can d&d a url to the main gwget window or the notification area icon to add a new download.
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Tags: internet, linux
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August 31st, 2009
Command line tool is very powerful in Unix based operating systems, there are times when one has access only to a Command Line Interface but in need of Internet to solve the problem or no Graphical browsers are currently installed. So what is the solution? In fact there are many command line web browsers like www-browser, lynx, w3m….. and so on. So now I am talking about the one I use that is w3m.
- Syntax: type in command w3m www.example.com
- Get Help: type in command w3m / man w3m
- Navigation: Click on the link/Navigate through tab and press Enter key
- Enter Text in Forms/Search Engines: Click on text boxes/Navigate through tab and press enter then enter text which displays at the left bottom corner again a enter once text writing is finished
- Quit: type in q and then y
More Information about w3m is found in http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
Tags: cli, linux
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August 27th, 2009
Ubuntu is a great Operating System to work on, though it is relatively new compared some of the other distributions like Debian, Mandriva. There is an annoying feature(atleast I feel) in Ubuntu in which- newly connected usb drive is auto-mounted and poped up. So here is a tip to disable that feature,
Press Alt + F2 and type gconf-editor (or) type in gconf-editor in the command line
Navigate theought / –> apps –> nautilus —> preferences —> uncheck media_automount_open.
So thats it. Happy ubuntuing
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