Category Archives: Linux

HOW TO: Use personal Bit.ly account with UrlbarExt

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Nick Mathew

UrlbarExt is a wonderful add-on for Firefox. It provides  useful tools from within the address bar of Firefox. To quote, UrlbarExt extends the Location Bar with set of commands to (Make Tiny URL,Copy URL,Search site,Go up,Tag pages easily ,Navigate through … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.5 is here!

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Nick Mathew

Firefox has been updated to version 3.5. This version boasts of a few cool features, such as HTML5 Support and Geo-location. Get more details at http://lifehacker.com/5295655/top-10-firefox-35-features http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/ Check out this video of what HTML5 can do. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/connecting-html5-video/ Of course, a … Continue reading →

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HOW TO: Full screen Ubuntu in VirtualBox

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Nick Mathew

VirtualBox is a great way to test different platforms without actually installing them. It creates a perfect virtual machine to play with. Of course, a dummy virtual machine is of no use, until you install on OS on it. To … Continue reading →

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Drupal Tutorial – resource

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Nick Mathew

A really good resource for anyone who is using Drupal to build websites. Reference: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/implement.html

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HOW TO: Proxy Firefox through SSH

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Nick Mathew

Requirements: PuTTY on local machine Remote host running OpenSSH 1. Create a new PuTTY session Run PuTTY and create a new session in PuTTY to connect to the remote host that is running OpenSSH. Fill in the hostname, the port … Continue reading →

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Making Java 2 work in Debian

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Nick Mathew

Download the j2se SDK from http://java.sun.com. Download the “.bin” file. In a terminal window, run the following commands. Switch to root use by issuing $ su – Password: cd to the directory where the file was downloaded. # cd ~nick/Downloads/ … Continue reading →

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HOW TO: Password-less SSH login

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Nick Mathew

Steps to create a password-less SSH login These commands are executed on linux or on a pseudo-linux environment, like cygwin. It will not work under Windows. Generate the encryption key. Do this on client machine. $ ssh-keygen -t dsa -f … Continue reading →

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