Category Archives: Linux
Firefox 3.5 is here!
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
HOW TO: Full screen Ubuntu in VirtualBox
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
Drupal Tutorial – resource
A really good resource for anyone who is using Drupal to build websites. Reference: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/implement.html
HOW TO: Proxy Firefox through SSH
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
Making Java 2 work in Debian
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
HOW TO: Password-less SSH login
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