Mozilla pitches Firefox 3.1 alpha for July release

Mozilla pitches Firefox 3.1 alpha for July release
Just a week after Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.0, the open-source developer has proposed ship dates for the next version that, if approved, would produce an alpha release next month and a final no later than early 2009.
According to a draft schedule discussed at a Tuesday meeting, Mozilla wants to have the first Firefox 3.1 developer preview, or alpha, ready by July, then move to a beta by August. The schedule slates final code delivery in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of 2009. A month ago, when Mozilla first started discussing Firefox 3.1 internally, Mike Schroepfer, the company's vice president of engineering, said the upgrade's target ship date was the end of 2008.
If Mozilla holds to that plan, Firefox 3.1 would be its first fast-track update, with a development timeline significantly shorter than usual. Firefox 3.0, for instance, launched approximately 20 months after its predecessor, Firefox 2.0.
Previously, Mozilla said that it would be able to meet the shorter deadlines because Firefox 3.1 would be composed of features that didn't make it into Firefox 3.0, but were "nearly complete," Schroepfer said.
In the meeting notes published online Tuesday, Mozilla listed some of the improvements it hopes to slot into Firefox 3.1, including changes to the revamped bookmarking that debuted in 3.0 and modifications to the new amped-up location bar.
Several of the proposed changes, however, rely on improvements to the Gecko engine that underpins Firefox, as well as other applications, such as Mozilla Messaging's Thunderbird e-mail client. Developers are working on Gecko 1.9.1 at the same time as Firefox 3.1, and programmers on the latter project expect some of those refinements will make it into the browser's next upgrade, including additional improvements in JavaScript performance and better compliance with the Acid3 test, which checks how closely a browser follows certain Web standards.
In March, when both Apple Inc. and Opera Software ASA touted gains in matching Acid3's requirements with their Safari and Opera browsers, respectively, Mozilla called the race to a perfect score "a puzzle game" and said it wouldn't divert resources from the still-under-construction Firefox 3.0 to match its rivals.
Since the June 17 launch, more than 21.8 million copies of Firefox 3.0 have been downloaded, according to Mozilla's own counter.

Open source phone goes mass-market

Openmoko has begun shipping its Linux-based, open source Neo Freerunner phone to five newly announced distributors, in Germany, France, and India, says the company. The Neo Freerunner features an open hardware design, and a Linux-based operating system that users are free to modify. The project originally hoped to produce a mass-market offering last October. The $400 Freerunner will remain available direct, online, too. A 2.5G GPRS/GSM phone like the original iPhone, it boasts a 500MHz processor, WiFi, 3D accelerometers, a 4.3-inch VGA touchscreen, Bluetooth, and built-in GPS.
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9978560959.html

MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates

"Now that Gates has 'retired' from Microsoft, ZDNet is speculating that Microsoft will become much more Open Source friendly. From the article, "We already see quite a different approach to dealing with OSS and OSS companies from Sam Ramji's group [which is] doing a great job in establishing dialog," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange and a former marketing exec at SUSE Linux. "With Gates' departure, the only mammoth remaining is Ballmer. With him away in a near future, Microsoft will definitely open up. They have to."" "For much of Microsoft's history, its primary strategic initiative has been Windows everywhere. Bill Gates was the primary architect of this and it has served the company well in reaching the $50 billion revenue mark. To get from $50 to $100 billion, however, they will clearly need to embrace the non-Windows world," said Barry Crist, CEO, Likewise Software. "I suspect this will be easier for Microsoft to accomplish without Gates. We see substantive signs of this happening already.""

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2601

How-To: Install MythTV in Debian Lenny

Add the Debian multimedia repositories into your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main

deb-src http://debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main

Next, fetch the dependencies needed to compile MythTV:

apt-get build-dep mythtv

Download the source from here, uncompress and issue the usual:

./configure

make

make install

The last one as root.

INSTALING ORACLE9I(DATABASE ) IN RED HAT LINUX /FEDORA

Oracle 9i can be install over RHL /FC system requried :To use oracle we need to minimum 512 MB RAM & a swap partition . linux with kernel 2.4.7 & glibc2.2.2 ,
for cheacking it ,open terminal & type $ uname -a rpm -q glibc2.2.2

1. open terminal

2. type "su" & give passward (if u r in root)

3. then type (for configaring share memory)
#echo "kernel .shmmax =2147483648 " >> /etc/sysct 1. .conf
# echo " kernel . shmmin =4096" >> /etc/sysct1.conf
# echo "kernel .shmall = 2097252">> .etc/sysct1.conf

4. then type ( configraing semaphores )
# echo"kernel .sem =250 32000 100 128 ">> /etc/sysct1.conf

5. then type ( configring file handle)
# echo "fs .file -max =65356">>/etc/ sysct1.conf
also issue
# ulimit now reboot ststem & issue # ipcs -lm # ipcs -ls

5. making oracle user group

6. configure shell enviornment in terminal ,
type # vi /etc/csh.login ( for "C" shell)

7. cheack file configration .
Downloading & installing the oracle DBMSit can be download from oracle web site . in .gz etension. then run fun zip , by using
gunzip command then
type cpio -idmv

8. save the file in
/home/ disk1, /home/disk2. , /home /disk3

9. log in as root & type the following command in terminal

#sh $ORALCLE_HOME/root.sh.


Hope it is install easily .

Red Hat Targets Adoption Of Next-Gen Virtualisation

Red Hat Targets Adoption Of Next-Gen Virtualisation .Introduces three initiatives -- Embedded Linux Hypervisor, Virtual Infrastructure Management and Security Infrastructure.

Red Hat has announced three strategic initiatives targeting enterprise-wide adoption of next-generation virtualisation. The company introduced embedded Linux hypervisor for hosting virtualised Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows environments. It has announced the beta availability of this hypervisor at www.ovirt.org. The hypervisor is based on the KVM project.

The company has introduced open source virtual infrastructure management solution will enable enterprise IT to build and manage internal clouds. The company has also released the www.freeIPA.org project to advance and deliver integrated security technologies such that virtualisation can be used ubiquitously across the enterprise.

Paul Cormier, president, products and technology, Red Hat, said, "Today's announcements are a key step in extending the benefits of virtualisation to every IT deployment. We continue to see huge improvements in functionality, performance and time to market because of our close relationship with our open source partners. For example, Intel and IBM have worked with us for many years covering virtualisation technologies that span from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to today's KVM-based announcements. We see this as the beginning of open source solutions becoming dominant in the software virtualisation market, as it has in others, such as Linux itself."

"The market for virtualisation is growing in India. With the added benefits, we will be able to deploy virtualisation infrastructure in Indian enterprises with greater flexibility and scalability. The enhanced features would help increase the rate of adoption of open source virtualisation in India," added Nandu Pradhan, president and managing director, Red Hat India.

Using reliance CDMA phone as modem to connect internet

This tutorial can be used to configure any reliance phone to connect to internet. If you have samsung USB phones then it get first configured automatically by KUDZU in Redhat then you can use following steps further to connect to internet. Most of the time your phone will not be autodetected by such utility if it has serial connectivity but don't worry it will still work. Here we will use Wvdial , which is a command line utility to connect to internet. There is also Kwvdial which is a GUI for same but I havn't used that yet.Using CDMA phone as Modem to connect to internetSo to connect to internet using CDMA phone you have to use Wvdial. For first time you have to use Wvdialconf, a utility come with wvdial to configure it. To run it just connect your device and then run it using..

wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

It will show some testing and if it founds modem then will tell the port on which it founds.Now open your /etc/wvdial.confThere put following code (there will be few things aleready like modem string and modem port, use those string instead of given here as those are one which your modem or phone support.

[Modem0]
Modem=/dev/input/ttyS0
Baud=115200
SetVolume=0
Dial Command = ATD
Tinit1=ATZ
init2=AT+CRM=1
FlowControl= Hardware (CRTSCTS)
[Dialer reliance]
Username= Ph No.
Password= Ph No.
Phone=#777
Stupid Mode= 1
Inherits = Modem0

Here in above code change /dev/input/ttyS0 to your computer's com port if you are using serial cable other if you are using USB then replace that with ttyACM2 or ttyACMx here x= you USB port.

Now to connect to internet type at console

wvdial reliance

You should be connected to internet if every thing is fine.To disconnect you have to use Ctrl+C .To check it open another terminal and type

ifconfig ppp0

If it is not connected it will say no such device found. If it gives some info then you are connected to internet.Finally : I have not tested it all reliance set but it should work. I kindly request you all to share your experience and make it useful.

Bill Gates' last official day as a Microsoft employee

Bill Gates' last official day as a Microsoft employee, though as the company's largest shareholder, he remains the company's chairman. To underline his exit, Gates gave an emotional goodbye speech to employees Friday morning that was Webcast across the globe.
However, his departure leaves more than one burning question.
Despite all of the years of careful planning for this day and what comes after, can the management team that's left to run the company keep it moving forwards – and some would say, continue innovating -- instead of drifting into oblivion the way so many other tech firms have failed after the founder has left?

Don't forget that, after both companies foundered, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) had to recall their founders in order to save the companies they'd built.
That puts the focus on CEO Steve Ballmer and the team of executives he's assembled.
It won't be easy, but several Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) observers think both Ballmer and the company's other key leaders are up to the job.
"Ballmer has been managing this era already … Gates stepped out of the day-to-day [running of the company] at the turn of the century," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told InternetNews.com.
Ballmer, after all, Enderle pointed out, has been CEO for the last eight years. Many of the major decisions that have impacted the company, its partners and customers since 2000 have emanated from his office.
During that time, the company's revenues grew from $23 billion per year to an expected $60 billion in fiscal 2008, which ends Monday. The company has also grown in size until today Microsoft employs nearly 80,000 people worldwide.
Like Gates, Ballmer is 52. They met during their sophomore year at Harvard. Gates dropped out to start Microsoft, while Ballmer graduated and started on an MBA at Stanford before Gates hired him in 1980.
Since then, Ballmer has held a wide range of executive positions -- including vice president of operating systems -- many of them with a marketing focus, although they also required a technical understanding of the company's products,
"Ballmer may not be a technologist, the way Gates is, but he understands the product set," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told InternetNews.com.
Still, largely because Gates has been so visible throughout the company's history, many people have the impression that Gates' vision drives Microsoft and Ballmer is merely the company's chief salesman.
While there might be some truth to that argument – Ballmer is a consummate salesman -- analysts this week repeatedly said that attitude doesn't properly give credit where it's due. Ballmer, during his 28 years with Microsoft, has been closely involved with the company's technologies and the decisions around them, even if he hasn't done code reviews the way Gates has.
Additionally, Gates has said that he will continue to work as much as a day a week for the company as special projects for Ballmer, although he hasn't named any so far.
"I think it would be really wrong to say that Gates' oversight will not be there," Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, told InternetNews.com. "Bill and Steve have worked together for so long that Steve knows Bill's thinking," he added.
Besides that, Gates was smart enough to appoint Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes, to replace him as the company's visionary and chief software architect.
"By hiring people like Ozzie, I think they have the technology [visionary] side covered," King said.
Additionally, Ballmer has the benefit of long-time technology executives like Bob Muglia, who is senior vice president of the Server and Tools business, and Steve Sinofsky, who is senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live engineering, to fall back on, said Rob Helm, director of research at Directions on Microsoft.
Ultimately, however, it may be that even if Gates had opted to stay, the company would still be seemingly constantly on the brink of disaster, analysts say. Change is necessary if the company is going to survive, much less continue to prosper.
"I honestly feel the 'old gang' couldn't move the company forward [because] it's too big and it needs a big gang of people making individual decisions [within the business units]," Helm said.

Dell Takes Lead In Windows/Linux External Storage Market

Dell Takes Lead In Windows/Linux External Storage Market .Ships over 116 petabytes in external disk storage for Windows/Linux servers in Q1.

In the first quarter of calendar year 2008, Dell for the first time has captured a 20.4 per cent of the open systems (Windows/Linux) external worldwide disk array storage market with $422 million in revenue. Its closest competitor claimed 18.5 per cent share and $384 million in revenue.


Dell’s external controller-based storage revenue increased 21 per cent year-over-year, and Dell gained share in iSCSI-based SANs to take the number one position with more than twice the revenue of the next leading vendor. This growth demonstrates strong momentum in all segments of Dell’s worldwide storage business.

“We believe taking the lead in the Windows/Linux external storage market is significant. We have invested heavily in our portfolio across the board,” said Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager, Dell Enterprise Storage. “This is the high-growth segment, and we plan to continue demonstrating leadership throughout our entire family of storage systems, including PowerVault, Dell/EMC and EqualLogic.”

This explains, in part, why Dell shipped over 116 petabytes in external disk storage for Windows/Linux servers in Q1, representing 95 per cent of the total of 122 petabytes of external disk storage Dell ships each quarter.

“That is an astounding amount of storage capacity,” said Thomas. As a comparison, it is estimated by some that the total printed matter contained by all US academic research libraries equals only two petabytes. All told, Dell ships more than an estimated 288 petabytes of total disk storage each week within all of its products – including servers, desktops, laptops and enterprise storage systems – in order to accommodate the demand for storage in the digital universe.

MobiComp Bid Helps Microsoft's Mobile Agenda

Microsoft announced today its intent to buy MobiComp, a Portugal-based software company that specializes in cloud computing storage services to mobile users. Terms of the planned acquisition aren't being disclosed for now.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) did say that if the deal goes through, MobiComp would become a wholly owned subsidiary and would join the software giant's Mobile Communications Business.
MobiComp is best known for a series of storage and backup services that enable mobile operators to offer customers (end users) ready access personal content from their phones and other mobile devices. MobiComp's services also help users publish updates to online communities and get entertainment and news content delivered to their phones.
Three of MobiComp's better known services are MobileKeeper Backup & Restore, MobileKeeper Sharing & Communities, and Active mTicker.
"Like Microsoft, we've always believed in an open and innovative mobile platform and deep industry partnerships," said Carlos Oliveira, co-founder and CEO of MobiComp, in a statement. "We're thrilled that our work over the past eight years can now be extended by partnering with Microsoft’s world-class portfolio of mobile services."
Microsoft said the plan is use MobiComp to help expand its Mobile Communications Business and services to the 11 mobile operators it has contracts with worldwide.
"As people increasingly have more and more valuable information on their phone, the value of protecting that data on their phone and getting more out of the phone will continue to grow," said Scott Rockfeld, group product manager, Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft, in a statement e-mailed to InternetNews.com. "MobiComp helped pioneer technologies that allow the backup and restoration of mobile data and mobile posting of social content to Web sites such as Facebook."

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Becomes 'Greener' OS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Becomes 'Greener' OS .RHEL, in a test examining power consumption to determine the 'greener' OS, consumed 12 per cent less power than Windows 2008.

Network World's test examining power consumption to determine the 'greener' operating system validates Red Hat's efforts to move toward green computing. Network World ran multiple power consumption tests using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition on servers from Dell, IBM and HP.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ranked at the top in keeping the power draw in check, pulling as much as 12 per cent less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware. "We continue to make green computing a company-wide effort and continuously examine power management features that can be implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As the saying goes, 'it ain't easy being green'. But at Red Hat, we're putting our best foot forward in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint on the earth."Red Hat is involved in the development of projects that are focused on saving power.

CommunicAsia 08: Yahoo! Announces Mobile Initiatives For Asia Pacific

CommunicAsia 08: Yahoo! Announces Mobile Initiatives For Asia Pacific .Also introduces localised versions of Yahoo! Go 3.0 for India, Australia and Southeast Asia.
Yahoo! has announced several new mobile initiatives for the Asia Pacific region, including five new Yahoo! oneSearch partnerships with leading mobile operators including MTNL (India), Hong Kong CSL Limited, Smart Communications Inc. (Philippines), Digital Mobile Phlis, Inc. (SUN Cellular, Philippines) and Vibo Telecom Inc. (Taiwan), as well as mobile advertising partnerships with Idea Cellular Ltd (India) and Maxis Communications Bhd (Malaysia). The two mobile operators plan to carry a variety of graphical advertisements, sold and served by Yahoo!.
Additionally, Yahoo! announced localised versions of Yahoo! Go 3.0 for India, Australia and Southeast Asia, including a local language version for Indonesia and an English version of Yahoo! oneSearch with voice that recognises regional accents. The company also announced the launch of new mobile widgets for the Asia Pacific region including Yahoo! Cricket, Yahoo! Answers and Showtimes (Yahoo! India Movies), as well as a MTV Asia mobile widget featuring news updates and music charts.Today's Yahoo! oneSearch partnerships announcement brings the total number of mobile search deals signed by Yahoo! worldwide in the last 18 months to over 60. "Sixty signed Yahoo! oneSearch partner deals is a great milestone, putting us on our way to our goal of ultimately connecting the billions of mobile consumers around the globe with the best possible Internet experience," said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo!."Working closely with our partners, Yahoo! oneSearch is a starting point for mobile consumers across the Asia Pacific region, delivering locally relevant information on their mobile devices," said David Ko, managing director and vice president, Yahoo! Connected Life, Asia Pacific. "Our mobile strategy to lead and enable the mobile ecosystem is being implemented by focussing on developing mobile-first experiences, like Yahoo! oneSearch, and fostering high-quality partnerships to enhance the user's mobile Internet experience. This approach should benefit all parties, producing a higher level of profitability and deeper consumer engagement."Additionally, Yahoo! today launched Yahoo! oneSearch with voice for English speakers in Singapore and India. Yahoo! oneSearch with voice first launched in the US in April to make it easier to initiate mobile searches.Available beginning today for select BlackBerry devices including the 8800 series, Curve and Pearl, this English language product is capable of understanding, disambiguating and learning accents localised for India and Singapore. Whereas many other mobile voice recognition systems are specific to vertical categories such as local listings, Yahoo! oneSearch with voice lets consumers perform 'wide open' searches - returning relevant results for a range of queries. With usage, Yahoo! oneSearch with voice will adapt to the user's intonations and accent, providing fine-tuned results as the product is used. Over the coming months, the product is expected to support additional devices, languages and become available in additional countries.Consumers in Australia, India and Southeast Asia can download Yahoo! Go 3.0 on more than 270 mobile devices from major manufacturers worldwide and use it on most wireless networks.Yahoo! Mobile Widgets will be accessible through the new Yahoo! Go 3.0 and the Yahoo! mobile home page. Mobile widget developers can build their widgets in Blueprint, Yahoo!'s recently launched XML-based language that is said to provide a versatile and highly functional development environment. With the Blueprint SDK, you’ll get an easy-to-follow, step-by-step widget building process, allowing you to create, test and build more functionality into your widget. With Blueprint, you get your widget out to a broad market of potential customers. It runs seamlessly across platforms, supports multiple operating systems and hundreds of phones — giving your widget the exposure it deserves.

LG, Honeywell Join Hands

To establish an exclusive solution for spec-in sales activities, expand its capability in relevant technologies and improve its engineers’ skills through training.
LG Electronics (LG) has entered into a strategic business partnership with Honeywell, a manufacturer in automation and control solution. The partnership agreement embraces comprehensive cooperation across sales, marketing, training, product development and technology services for building solution systems.

Through this collaboration with Honeywell, LG expects to establish an exclusive solution for spec-in sales activities, expand its capability in relevant technologies and improve its engineers’ skills through training.LG marked this business partnership agreement with a ceremony held today at the Grand Hilton Hotel in Seoul, Korea. Executives attending from both companies included Young-Hwan Kim, solution business team leader at LG Electronics Digital Appliance Company and Ki-Soon Choi, ECC (Environmental and Combustion Controls) division leader from Honeywell."This partnership with Honeywell will serve to strengthen our competitiveness, expanding our presence in the intelligent building system industry as well as the home network sector," said Young-Hwan Kim. "We will concentrate on attracting new customers through our accumulated expertise in home networks, coupled with our competitive brand recognition.""We will deliver comprehensive solutions for all diversified control demands in the future home and building area through cross collaboration with LG Electronics," said Ki-Soon Choi.

Star-worthy: Firefox 3 Bookmarks

As promised, we’ll continue to highlight some of the incredibly cool and useful Firefox 3 features you can expect to see. Today’s installment on Firefox 3’s new bookmarking system is brought to you once again by Deb Richardson, the author of the about:mozilla newsletter. Deb provides a clear explanation of the many improvements you’ll see, including:
bookmark stars which allow for one-click bookmarking
tags that allow you to add extra relevant information to a bookmark so it’s easier to find and organize
smart bookmark folders or “saved searches” that automatically update when you add new items matching that search to your bookmarks

Firefox 3’s bookmark dialog box
Take a look at her post for more details, as well as a great how-to. I’ve found that I am using Firefox 3’s bookmarking with renewed gusto thanks to the little star and intuitive organization and search!

Enable/Disable AutoRun For Individual Drives

Windows' Autoplay is a neat feature - the moment you pop in a CD/Drive or a Removable drive, autorun.inf file is read, and any executable file mentioned in there is executed. While this seems as a good idea, say, for automated setup installers, Autoplay has gathered some infamy as a virus distribution centre.

With default settings, you can only disable or enable Autoplay totally, not for individual drives. So is there a way to enable Autoplay, say only for individual drives, say, CD Drive? Yes!

For that you'll need Tweak UI, grab it from here.

After installing, launch it.
http://static.flickr.com/2018/2463874091_ff048ca52e.jpg

Click on the "+" mark next to My Computer, head over to AutoPlay, drives, and ensure that a Check mark is placed against only the drives you want AutoPlay to be enabled. Restart your PC. As simple as that.

Change your Yahoo IM Status to What You Are Currently Listen

While on IM, one of the most common question everyone asks is - How do you show what song you’re listening to? Well it’s a no-brainer really, quite a few plugins exist which allow to do so, but most of them are buggy, don’t work with one version or the other, or just don’t work at all!

Well after doing a bit of research, I found an ideal plugin for Winamp - Yahoo Messenger 9/8/7 Now Playing v4.3, which works for Yahoo Messenger versions 7, 8  9. You can grab it from here

For those using Pidgin for all your IM needs, fear not, the MusicTracker plugin will send the now playing satuts to all of your Pidgin accounts. Even better, MusicTracker supports Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes and Foobar2000! Grab the MusicTracker plugin from here

http://code.google.com/p/musictracker

So what’re you waiting for? Go grab those plugins and let people know, what you’re listening to lt;

Shyam.Com.NP Virus Solution

Shyam.Com.NP Virus Solution



I think here many people who have been troubled by shyam.com.np virus. So, There are many option to rid off from it, like one of my closest friend Subhojeet told me to Goto>Start>Run> Then type there “msconfig” without quote. Then turn of all non Microsoft services and startup programs. Then start PC in safe mode to scan drives with Avast And Spyware Doctor.



Ya may you get solution or not. In case of my I not get the solution my avast and Windows Defender are updated. Anyway maybe avast and Microsoft will update there definition soon. Anyway you may also format your machine to fix itL. But in both case of that you face some problem like formatting is big problem if your computer have some important documents and games etc. Those are really huge problem and in case of start up program closing maybe there some important program like Tray program such as Realtech Audio etc cause problem and many problems.



Now my method is very easy,



1. Restart Your Computer In Safe Mode.



2. Goto My Computer And Then Tools>Folder Options>View



Then Check Show Hidden Files And Folders And Also Show System Hidden Files.



3. Now Goto X:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ Folder. (X: Is Your System Drive Such As C



4. Then Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to start Task Manager.



5. Goto Process Tab.



6. Click wscript.exe and click end process.



7. Then Delete VirusRemoval.vbs File from system32 folder. Actually this is the virus.




See This:- http://digital.itgalary.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=527

WWDC 2008 News: Monkeying around on the iPhone

At Apple WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Ethan Einhorn of Sega shows off a new and improved 'Super Monkey Ball' for the iPhone--complete with 4 monkeys and 110 stages.

WWDC 2008 News: iPhone 3G makes its debut

At Apple WWDC 2008, Steve Jobs reveals the iPhone 3G with faster download speeds, longer battery life, GPS, a lower price, and a near worldwide release on July 11.

Adding On A Domain Name In Cpanel

This is a brief tutorial on how to addon a domain name in Cpanel. A big misunderstanding about domain names and hosting accounts, is that people think they a hosting account per domain name. Some hosting companies are mean and greatly restrict this. TopGradeHosting.com doesn't, you have have 999 domain names under one account for the same hosting fee as one domain name! Now each domain name of course carries with it a registration charge through the registrar it's with, but again, you can use your one hosting account with me for all your domain names for the same monthly hosting fee.

Make Older Add-Ons Work with Firefox 3.0

If you're willing to risk instability, a simple preference hack can bring out-of-date browser extensions back to life.


If you're like me, you've been playing around with the beta releases of Firefox 3.0.The new version of the open source browser is better-looking, uses less memory, and feels snappier all around. There's just one problem: Every time they release a new beta version, some of your extensions and add-ons are bound to stop working. With the release of Firefox 3.0rc1, almost none of them work.


Fortunately, there is a solution that will "fix" all of your extensions at once. But I caution you, it's not for the weak-hearted. The fix doesn't take longer than a few seconds, but when it comes to troubleshooting your browser afterward, you'll be on your own.


I can't repeat this enough. DO NOT TRY THIS unless you are comfortable editing the advanced preferences of your browser. And don't do anything until you've read through this entire post. Don't say I didn't warn you.


In my experience, extensions that worked with Firefox 3.0b5 will generally be stable with 3.0rc1. It is possible, however, that some of them will cause the new version of the browser to crash. It might even crash on startup -- which means, obviously, that you won't easily be able to undo the fix I'm about to describe.


The key to the fix is to prevent Firefox from checking its version number before it tries to load extensions. To do this, you will need to set a new preference value. Point your browser at the URL "about:config", then right-click on the preferences list to bring up the contextual menu. You should see an option that says "New." Select that, and choose "Boolean." When it asks you for the preference name, type "extensions.checkCompatibility" (without the quotes). You have to enter the name exactly. For the value, choose "false."


Now restart Firefox. When the browser comes back up, it should give you a warning that version checking is disabled. You can double-check under "Tools:Add-Ons" to make sure everything is activated once again.


If the worst case happens and the browser won't start after you add the new preference, you'll need to remove it by hand. Locate the file "prefs.js" within your Firefox profile directory and edit it with any text file editor to delete the line with the preference you just created. (If you're not comfortable doing that, then as I've said, this fix is probably not for you.)


Also, you'll want to remember to delete the preference once the final version of Firefox 3.0 is released, or else you'll never be certain that your installation is stable.
Good luck. As I've said before, I can't troubleshoot any individual Firefox installations. But hopefully this will help you keep your most-beloved add-ons running until their maintainers update them for the final Firefox 3.0. If you still have trouble with some extensions under Firefox 3.0rc1, you can post your experience here in the PC World Community Forums.



Source : PC World

Installing BackTrack3 beta in VMware Workstation 6 directly from the iso file

Hi, first of all thanks to all the people who have made BT3 possible and waiting for BT3 final eagerly. Now before starting the installation make sure the MD5 checksum of the original and the downloaded BT3 iso file. Assuming that VMware Workstation installed lets move forward and install BT3.
-First create a virtual machine with following configurations:-

Quote:
Guest Operating System: Linux
Version: Other Linux 2.6 Kernel
Memory: Leave it as default
Networking: leave it as default
Hard File Size: 8GB

Now after the machine has been created click on the name of the virtual machine just created in the sidebar on the left side and then under command options click on Edit virtual machine settings. Click Cd rom and change the settings from Use physical drive to Use ISO image and click on browse to select the saved BT3 iso image and save the settings.
-Now click o play button on the tool bar to run the Virtual machine and select any of the options from the boot menu.
-After it has booted into BT3 open the Terminal window and use following commands.

fdisk /dev/sda
press n
press p
press 1
press enter
+7168M and press enter
press n
press p
press 2
press enter
press enter
press w
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1
mkswap /dev/sda2
mkdir /mnt/backtrack
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/backtrack

-Now go to Backtrack from the KDE menu and click on Install Backtrack
Keep the configurations as follows:-

Source (Backtrack CD):
Install Backtrack to : /mnt/backtrack
Write New MBR (lilo.mbr) to : /dev/sda
Installation method: Real
Uncheck :-Restore Original MBR after lilo

Installation will hangs at 42% and 81% and it takes about 15 minutes or so to install completely.
Then reboot the by selecting Logoff from KDE menu and voila BT3 is installed in VMware.
enjoy

IF ANY PROBLEM HAPPENS THEN
DO THIS:

So changed to mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

So check it out