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Firefox 3.5 is here!
30 Jun 2009Firefox 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 version upgrade is never complete without breaking something. My upgrade listed the following extensions as incompatible. Hopefully, these extensions will get [...]
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- Tags: Browsers, firefox, Mozilla Firefox
HOW TO: Full screen Ubuntu in VirtualBox
In: Linux
6 Jun 2009VirtualBox 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 learn more on setting up VirtualBox, check out this great post at Lifehacker.
And if you want [...]
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- Tags: fedora, Linux, ubuntu, virtualbox
Drupal Tutorial – resource
6 Feb 2009A 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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- Tags: cms, drupal, open source, website
HOW TO: Proxy Firefox through SSH
29 Mar 2008Requirements:
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 (usually 22), make sure SSH is checked, give it a session name and hit Save.
2. Configure a secure tunnel
Click [...]
Making Java 2 work in Debian
23 Mar 2008Download 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/
Change the permission of the file and execute it.
# chmod +x j2sdk*.bin
# ./j2sdk-*.bin
Make a directory under /usr/local (for example /usr/local/sun).
# [...]
HOW TO: Password-less SSH login
12 Mar 2008Steps 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 ~/.ssh/id_dsa -C "you@client.com"
A passphrase is recommended, though not required. Enter a passphrase that you can remember. It [...]
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