An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement
Normally when people have more than one network interface on their PC or laptop and using linux, they may face a problem of network interface names eth0 and eth1 getting swapped betweeen the the interfaces on every reboot. The fact that which interface is getting what name is not predictable ...
My debian laptop is connected to Internet directly at home and through
a HTTP proxy at office. For handling apt-get
, I was having a
shell script which sets the HTTP_PROXY
, http_proxy
,
FTP_PROXY
, ftp_proxy
environment variables to the
approrpriate proxy server on demand and then I do sudo apt-get
<whatever>
. All ...
Google is redesigning the search results interface. A set of IPs are chosen for the testing (may be alpha). But anyone can get the new interface by this easy hack.
Open Google search page (http://www.google.com)
Enter the following string in the browsers URL input box
javascript:alert ...
Jonathan has a new post on the Sun Grid. Looks like they have finalized with the domain name for Sun Grid and ready to roll out pretty soon. Due to export regulations it seems that Sun Grid will be initially available only for US customers. Well, tons and tons of ...
Ever since my update of Wordpress to 2.0 from 1.5, I was facing more annonyance than any help from the new so called, "Visual rich editor". I think that it is the same case with most of the Wordpress users. In the view of helping novice Wordpress users ...
Jonathan has written in his blog about the open letter from Scott to Mark Hurd. Can you guess the tone of this mail? :-)
Avalon towers at Peninsula is a heaven of internet.
praveen@aphrodite:/home$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade...Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
cron debianutils flac gnome-about gnome-desktop-data info libaudio2 libflac7 libgnome-desktop-2 liboggflac3 openssh-client openssh-server reiserfsprogs ssh texinfo
15 upgraded, 0 ...
If you have cups installed on your Debian and facing issues in printing from Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Acrobat Reader, you might want to try installing cupsys-bsd.
I am literally breaking my head for the last two days on installing Debian on my new Toshiba A80-P4321 laptop. I hope I will make some progress tonight. I will write a a new post on the installation.
Brian L. Clark, a new Gizmodo writer has a written a nice small article about the fast growing IPTV segment.