Firefox: “Save and Quit” option disappeared ?

I was finding it difficult to save my currently opened tabs whenever I quit Firefox browser ; later I learnt that up from Firefox 4, one change that has been brought is to by default stop Firefox displaying warning messages. It can be changed from the preferences. Here is how I learnt a way to [...]

How far will you get with “rm -rf /” on Linux ?

Have you ever left your Terminal logged in,  only to find a so called friend/ colleague came up and typed ” rm -rf / ” ? I actually did so on a virtual machine (VM). It’s a CentOS VM which was used for some applications test. I created a backup of this VM and thought [...]

New Net Protocol challenges

IPv6 as we all know allows greater number of addresses. As it does so, organisations will face challenges adapting new system. Lack of awareness coupled with new vulnerabilities are likely to create security problems. What happens when we type a website address ? The computer breaks it up into a mix of unique 32 zeroes [...]

Experiences with USB-Modem

wvdial – no process found was the first output thrown on double clicking my new USB Modem icon. I gave enough trial when my system was armed with Fedora-Core 13 but all went in vain. I then read few instructions which came along with USB-Modem kit and concluded to say ‘no’ to Fedora-Core 13 :( [...]

Browsers and the Web

I recently bought a usb modem as the PSTN line at my home was dead since high time and I was unable to browse at home. After getting the device talk to DNS I installed Google Chrome on my desktop. As I launched Chrome I saw a document under http://www.20thingsilearned.com/home As illustrated by Christoph ; [...]

Web on console

Most of the people think “graphical interfaces” when they think of surfing the Web. And there are indeed great programs like Firefox, Chrome under X11. But console in not the waste land. They also have lots of utilities for downloading or uploading content. Lets say you want to surf the web. The first utility to [...]

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